9 Simple Slow Living Habits That Make Home Feel Peaceful

Small daily slow living rituals that reduce stress without spending money.

Music, Cleaning and Order starts my slow living

1. Listen to music. Our TV comes on for special events only! Briefly, each morning, Mike watches the news. We both watch the OKC Thunder during basketball season and golf during special tours. Mike watches football. In the evenings, we watch a Netflix series. Otherwise, we listen to Pandora on Amazon Alexa. 

2. Clean something. We live in a large home and there’s always something to clean. Our home has no carpet, so cleaning floors is a quick vacuum. Otherwise, I do a weekly clean in an area. I’ve divided the home into 8 areas and rotate each week. If you need to clean mirrors or windows, check out my window cleaning tools I use.

3. Have a place for everything. I admit, this one gives me trouble at times. I will put something down because one of the dogs needs to go out and then can’t remember where it is or what I was doing. Lol.  

Walks, Crafts and Meals

4. Take walks. We walk everyday around the edge of our property. Four times around is a mile walk. Yes, in spring and summer I will walk barefoot! Somedays, we walk our neighborhood and at times even walk to our sweet downtown with cute little shops. Once we walked to the Poncan Theatre which is an historic theatre which open in 1927. It’s on the National Register of Historic Places. There are movies shown and varies plays preformed on the stage.  

5. I have a wonderful craft room upstairs. But, I keep a wood box downstairs filled with watercolor supplies. When I want to get creative during say, football, I have everything to make mixed media cards. 

6. Plan seven days of meals. Then create a shopping list for the weekly meals. Another one that I’m not great at accomplishing! Those weeks that I do a little planning are much more relaxing. 

Sounds, Outside and Rearranging

7. Add a fan. We brought beautiful free standing fans for our den and our bedroom that oscillate. The sound of a fan is so peaceful and calming. 

8. Spend time outside your home each day. Sit on the front porch. Play dominos on a table on the back porch. (Mike and I do this almost everyday)

9. Rearrange small items around your home. It’s an easy and quick way to refresh the look of each room. I use a basket and collect little houses that I’ve made over the years, vases with real or fake flowers, and other collectables. Then redistribute them in other rooms. Then gather items from that room to display in the next room. Pillows and throws are moved around rooms too.

Keep the task slow and thoughtful as you gather and rearrange items.

Let me know what slow living activities you do around your home in comments below.