Step 0: Watch a Youtube Video
So it all started off with this one Youtube video.
Well, to be totally fair, it started with Dean (the boyfriend) saying time and time again how it would be great to have a minimalist lifestyle. To which I would always laugh because really, Dean is probably just as bad as I am.
We. Have. To. Much. Crap.
We currently live in a one bedroom, maybe 500 sq/ft apartment and probably one of the happiest days of my adulthood was finally getting storage in our building to store part of our crap in. Yeah.
Because here's where the irony of this whole thing is, I actually love the concept of minimalism, it's just extremely painful for me to think about implementing it myself.
"But, but....it's my stuff!" I say, clutching and staring around at all the items I've managed to accumulate over my 27 years, 9 months and 9 days (to be exact). And trust me, even though I currently live halfway around the country/world of where I grew up...
You can still accumulate a shit ton* of stuff.
*Shit ton: (Insert witty joke about very logical and science way of measuring this is).
Which I have. So here's my plan. After we watched the mentioned video above we also watched this other one entitled: "10 Tips for Decluttering".
The thing is....it wasn't just some video that made me suddenly want to do this. I guess it was more the realization that, well, why don't I do this? Will I like it? Most probably not. In fact, I can see this being hard and painful and I'll whine about it and oh God, will I feel guilty.
But lately I've been trying more and more to get rid of stuff. I mean, hours before I even saw that video I brought down 3 garbage bags full of clothes, shoes and pillows to the donation bin we have in my building's garage. And this isn't the first time we've done that. I like donating. I'm good at it even, I'm more heartless than Dean when it comes to some stuff.
And even just by looking at my living room, with the tv stand full of DVDs and the bookshelf full of books that haven't been touched, let alone opened, some of them. The guilt comes for other reasons.
So I'm going to start this. Slowly. Documenting what stays, what goes, and the reasons behind it.
Also, we may be moving soon. And what better time to start sorting out my cluttered life than now?
MinimaLilism at it's finest.
Well, to be totally fair, it started with Dean (the boyfriend) saying time and time again how it would be great to have a minimalist lifestyle. To which I would always laugh because really, Dean is probably just as bad as I am.
We. Have. To. Much. Crap.
We currently live in a one bedroom, maybe 500 sq/ft apartment and probably one of the happiest days of my adulthood was finally getting storage in our building to store part of our crap in. Yeah.
Because here's where the irony of this whole thing is, I actually love the concept of minimalism, it's just extremely painful for me to think about implementing it myself.
"But, but....it's my stuff!" I say, clutching and staring around at all the items I've managed to accumulate over my 27 years, 9 months and 9 days (to be exact). And trust me, even though I currently live halfway around the country/world of where I grew up...
You can still accumulate a shit ton* of stuff.
*Shit ton: (Insert witty joke about very logical and science way of measuring this is).
Which I have. So here's my plan. After we watched the mentioned video above we also watched this other one entitled: "10 Tips for Decluttering".
The thing is....it wasn't just some video that made me suddenly want to do this. I guess it was more the realization that, well, why don't I do this? Will I like it? Most probably not. In fact, I can see this being hard and painful and I'll whine about it and oh God, will I feel guilty.
But lately I've been trying more and more to get rid of stuff. I mean, hours before I even saw that video I brought down 3 garbage bags full of clothes, shoes and pillows to the donation bin we have in my building's garage. And this isn't the first time we've done that. I like donating. I'm good at it even, I'm more heartless than Dean when it comes to some stuff.
And even just by looking at my living room, with the tv stand full of DVDs and the bookshelf full of books that haven't been touched, let alone opened, some of them. The guilt comes for other reasons.
So I'm going to start this. Slowly. Documenting what stays, what goes, and the reasons behind it.
Also, we may be moving soon. And what better time to start sorting out my cluttered life than now?
MinimaLilism at it's finest.
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