Best of No Sidebar: Our Top 5 Posts from 2025

Before we look forward to a new year let’s celebrate the past 12 months by gathering inspiration from the most popular articles from No Sidebar in 2025.

These are the 5 articles most loved by you, our faithful readers!

You don’t have to escape your life to find peace—you just have to create room for it. These small habits aren’t just about quieting the noise around you; they’re about remembering who you are underneath it all.

Start small. Start today. Because the calm, focused, grounded version of you? They’re not far off. They’re just waiting in the quiet—for you to come home.

You might feel overwhelmed or even fearful about decluttering your home. Sentences like “There’s just so much” and “I’ll never be done” may enter your head. If you think about every single step you’ll have to take to get clutter-free, you might quit before you start.

That’s why it’s important to look at the big picture. You’re going to take the process step by step and these five steps will help renew your mindset.

Unfortunately, for many, our homes often feel more chaotic than calm—and more stressful than soothing. But there’s good news: peace at home isn’t out of reach. It just requires less, not more.

Over the years, I’ve found some simple hacks—small decisions that lead to big changes. They may seem unconventional at first, but each one helps pave the way for a cleaner, calmer, and more intentional home.

On this road towards a simple life there have been many ups and downs. Sometimes you feel stressed but you aren’t sure what is causing the stress specifically. Maybe your schedule is full because you aren’t saying no enough. Perhaps your closet is stressing you out cause you can’t find anything to wear in the morning. Or is it your finances? Are things a little tight? Do you need to save money?

When you try out different minimalist goals you can not only continue to simplify your life, you can find the pressure points that are really getting to you!

Not everyone is ready to adopt minimalism fully as a lifestyle—but they can still benefit from some of the ideas. If you’re not ready to jump in all at once, let me offer you a few minimalist challenges to test it out. Each may be used on a minimalist’s journey to owning less. But just taken one at a time, they don’t seem as difficult.

Here are ten minimalist challenges you can try. Any of the ten will begin to simplify your life in important ways!

As this year comes to a close, we want to take a moment to express our deepest appreciation to you, our readers. Your continuous support, by reading and sharing our content, fuels our commitment to this meaningful endeavor.

As we bid farewell to 2025, alongside you, we look forward to 2026!