Get a side hustleand more tips to ‘Simplify Your Life’ [Video]

Decades before the Marie Kondo era of clearing out the clutter, Elaine St. James began simplifying her life and wrote a bestseller about it in the early 90s.

In her book, “Simplify Your Life,” St. James shares 100 ways that you can embrace simplicity and “enjoy the things that really matter.” From living on half of what you earn and saving the rest to building a simpler wardrobe, her advice spotlights themes of living with less that experts still suggest for wellness, decades after the book’s publication in 1994.

For St. James and her husband, “living simply meant reducing the scale, maintaining the comfort, eliminating the complexity, and minimizing the time demands of life as we had known it in the 1980s,” she wrote.

Here are four suggestions shared by St. James that align with the advice we see today for living more simply.

1. Downsize where you can

In her book, St. James shared countless tips for …