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We Love Our New-and-Improved Tiny Condo: Part I

by Angela 08.29.2011
Renovations to the porch of our tiny house

My wife and I live in 650 square feet with two kids and we love it. We’ve written about our small home before, a tiny condo in North Cambridge, Massachusetts. We live in a neighborhood full of small houses and condos — the average home or condo around here is about 1,000 square feet. But [...]

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Stuff

by Angela 04.09.2010

Last night I had the great fortune of getting to hear some words from Anne Leonard at the Consuming Kids Summit and I got to re-watch the Story of Stuff on a big screen. I hadn’t seen the film in a while and of course it inspired me to reduce my consumption and waste. Leonard [...]

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Carfree on the Internet

by Angela 07.01.2009

This week I’ve been noticing just how much stuff comes with kids. We picked up a lot from friends used, but I still feel like the stream of stuff pouring into our house is wide and deep. We have gifts for H’s birthday, an avalanche of parts for the many electric breast pumps in our [...]

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Making some room

by Angela 05.11.2009

As we’ve blogged about before, we have a small condo and we are soon to be a family of four. With the baby coming in just a couple of weeks, we realized a few days ago that we don’t actually feel like we have enough room for the baby, either time-wise or space-wise, despite our [...]

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Biking with Kids in the Rain

by Angela 04.10.2009

Earlier this week, I was nearing the end of the day, which is the time when I pick up my daughter from daycare on the bike and madly rush home. But it was raining. And the kid and I were completely devoid of rain gear. I cursed myself a little bit for never remembering to [...]

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Small Living

by Angela 02.09.2009

We live in a small condo, about 660 square feet, 36 square feet of which is an unheated porch off of the master bedroom. We moved here from a 450-square-foot awkwardly-arranged apartment when our daughter was almost a year old. This condo with it’s open floorplan and 200 additional square feet felt like a palace. [...]

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