Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I moved my family from a 3,300-square-foot house to 1,200 square feet of living space. The move has reduced my family's stress and ...

After trading my 2,800-square-foot house for a 900-square-foot apartment, I discovered I wasn't downsizing my life—I was upgrading from 20 hours of weekly maintenance to 20 hours of actually living.

Walking into my smaller condo three years after selling our family home, I never thought I'd feel such profound regret about what seemed like the most logical decision at the time. The financial ...