It All Starts With You
Only you can start living more simply. It starts today. I’m here to help. Hip Diggs wants to teach you skills to simplify your life. Learn to get back to basics. The secret to simple living is right at your…
Category Lifestyle
Lifestyle at Hipdiggs is about embracing simplicity in all aspects of life. This category explores topics like minimalism, mindfulness, and sustainable living, offering practical advice and thoughtful reflections on how to live a more intentional, less cluttered life.
Get Back To Where You Are
With all of life’s busyness and complications it becomes easy to lose ourselves. We get so overwhelmed that we can’t seem to slow down. We get frustrated and angry. We struggle to find peace. Can you relate? That’s why I…
7 Ways To Return To The Lost Art Of Being Still
With all the busyness and technological clutter in our lives, we’ve forgotten the art of being still. That could be a problem. Taking time for being still helps to reduce stress. Less stress leads to less anxiety. I’ve struggled with…
Break Tradition: It’s Okay!
Thanksgiving is on the way. I’ve always loved the Thanksgiving holiday. It hasn’t been as commercialized as many other holidays. It’s about gratitude. It’s about family. It’s about food. Still, sometimes the traditional Thanksgiving meal feels like too much. It’s…
A Dog Run For Shep
We love our pets. They’re part of the family. Our dog Shep is a great dog, but he got the short end of the stick on this move. The backyard at the old rental house was big. The yard here…
Living in Small Spaces: Step Five – The Squeeze
So we’ve talked about minimizing your material stuff. Don’t stop. It’s a good practice to consider each thing you possess regularly, and ask yourself, “Do I really need this?” If the answer is no, let it go. It’s also a…
Beware The Hot-Air Heater Guy
I was fortunate enough to learn a valuable lesson early on in my home-ownership journey. Buyer beware! This lesson cost me $454.44. I hope by writing about it, I might save you some money. In order to fully appreciate this…
Advice for Building a Deck
Our first deck on our first house was a basic, 12×16 square, and what we expected to take a weekend took most of the summer. The second deck we built is the one on our current home, a 20×30 with…
Can You Help Hip Diggs Out?
I’m a busy guy. I work full-time, keep my personal/writing blog at danerickson.net, and I’m a single dad. Keeping up here at hipdiggs.com has proven to be a challenge I may not be up to. That’s why I’m asking for a…
Gutters: A Dirty Do-It-Yourself Job
Photo Credit Now I understand the expression, “get your mind out of the gutter.” When your gutters are right beneath a walnut tree and have been ignored for a few years, they are a dirty place. I must have scooped…
