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		<title>Happy New Year Redux</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 05:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Weingarten</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite my best intentions, 2013 is not proving to be my best year yet. Work stress, health stress and family stress are conspiring to make the new-ish year feel very old indeed. So instead of continued fretting and pouting and choosing to live a potentially self-fulfilling prophecy that 2013 will prove to be all bad, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theconflictedminimalist.com&#038;blog=24300659&#038;post=366&#038;subd=theconflictedminimalist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 11:28:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Weingarten</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, I don&#8217;t need a rotating iPad case, shellac manicure or dinner for four at an obscure Italian restaurant and I will never ever cook something called Mexican chicken legs. And I really, really can&#8217;t understand how a business that calls itself &#8216;Beautiful Babe Butts&#8217; is in any way relevant to my life or lifestyle. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theconflictedminimalist.com&#038;blog=24300659&#038;post=353&#038;subd=theconflictedminimalist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Minimalism is Simple</title>
		<link>http://theconflictedminimalist.com/2013/01/08/minimalism-is-simple/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Weingarten</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to this somewhat tongue in cheek infographic by Scott Beale on LaughingSquid.com My favorite takeaway? &#8220;Don&#8217;t fear empty space.&#8221; Tell that to my cluttered desk. And one that I disagree with completely &#8211; &#8220;Don&#8217;t be too expressive.&#8221; Never. I&#8217;d rather be crowded with beauty, ideas and inspiration, than peering through the empty abyss of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theconflictedminimalist.com&#038;blog=24300659&#038;post=335&#038;subd=theconflictedminimalist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Road to Hell</title>
		<link>http://theconflictedminimalist.com/2012/12/26/the-road-to-hell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2012 07:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Weingarten</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My philosophy for the past few years was Better. I've amended it slightly.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theconflictedminimalist.com&#038;blog=24300659&#038;post=276&#038;subd=theconflictedminimalist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Giving Thanks</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2012 04:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Weingarten</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday, many of us will be gathered around a table groaning from the load of too many delicious things to eat. We&#8217;ll talk about things mundane and magnificent. Like the fact that Thanksgiving falls on November 22nd and seems to be coming early this year (is it ever too early to give thanks?). Or [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theconflictedminimalist.com&#038;blog=24300659&#038;post=263&#038;subd=theconflictedminimalist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>V. Neat</title>
		<link>http://theconflictedminimalist.com/2012/06/04/v-neat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Weingarten</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sierra magazine reports via their blog, that artist and author (and I&#8217;m tempted to call him a futurist) Douglas Coupland, the voice behind Generation X, has figured out a tidy way to declutter the city. Coupland&#8217;s introduction of the very cool looking V-Pole(in Vancouver, hence the &#8216;V&#8217;) would be connected to underground optical wiring and [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theconflictedminimalist.com&#038;blog=24300659&#038;post=256&#038;subd=theconflictedminimalist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Closets Taunt Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 13:11:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Weingarten</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have more on my agenda for today than you can imagine, yet it&#8217;s the thought of putting away my clothing tonight that haunts me most. I&#8217;m not sure I can face another round of push/pull/tug make room for my dress in that crush. Oh minimalistic ideal- why hath thou forsaken me? Time to ramp [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theconflictedminimalist.com&#038;blog=24300659&#038;post=253&#038;subd=theconflictedminimalist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>F*ck You- F*ck You.</title>
		<link>http://theconflictedminimalist.com/2012/04/26/fck-you-fck-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:02:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Weingarten</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you only know me from this blog, chances are you know my more genteel self. The one who is generally careful with her language and rarely uses expletives. Clearly we haven&#8217;t met in person. One of my struggles over the years has been excising more colorful four letter words from my day to day [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theconflictedminimalist.com&#038;blog=24300659&#038;post=244&#038;subd=theconflictedminimalist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Essays, Soul Spilling and Survivors</title>
		<link>http://theconflictedminimalist.com/2012/04/20/on-essays-soul-spilling-and-survivors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Weingarten</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While it would seem to the world that as a professional writer I spill my guts on a regular basis, I&#8217;m actually incredibly circumspect about what I share publicly. My other self, the marketing strategist, regularly lectures me to ignore my desire to share the painful and over-twee and to instead mind my brand when [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theconflictedminimalist.com&#038;blog=24300659&#038;post=227&#038;subd=theconflictedminimalist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spring Cleaning</title>
		<link>http://theconflictedminimalist.com/2012/04/01/spring-cleaning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 21:11:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Weingarten</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been paying attention lately to the timing of my cyclical cleaning jags. Sometimes the urge to purge intersects with impending visitors and other times with different dates on the calendar. As someone who was raised with a traditional Jewish upbringing, I&#8217;ve often fallen victim to the near hysterical house cleaning that generally accompanies Passover, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theconflictedminimalist.com&#038;blog=24300659&#038;post=219&#038;subd=theconflictedminimalist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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