Adventures In Minimalism – Living With Less and Enjoying It More

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The Things You Own, Own You.

These past few months, my family and I have been in the process of buying a new home. Knowing that we would be moving on a moment’s notice whenever our current home found a buyer, we packed up all of our unnecessary belongings and lived on very little.

The fateful day came about 2 weeks ago that we were able to find a buyer for our home, and we packed everything and moved out.  Unfortunately, we hadn’t yet  been able to close on our new home, so we were technically without a place to live. A “homeless” family, though this sounds much more dramatic than it actually is.

Declutter to Relieve Stress

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Clutter is a common side effect in our current consumer culture.  We constantly buy more, get more and keep more.  We always want more, but very rarely do we get rid of more in order to get more.  In fact, most of us keep our acquisitions hoping they will continue to give us the same joy they did in the beginning.  Then as our tastes change or our things have overstayed their welcome, we refuse to let them go and eventually put them into storage, or the garage to keep them for a later date when we hope they’ll become useful again.  I’m guilty of this as are many of the people I talk to on a daily basis.  Read more... (866 words, 1 image, estimated 3:28 mins reading time)