![]() Are you someone who doesn’t a finish project unless you do it in a short period? If so, you should dedicate a full weekend to purging and de-cluttering and then the job is done. These people are probably going to find success with the all-on-one go method. Some people need to see instant progress or have to finish a job quickly once they’ve started or else they know they’ll never finish it. The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. Aristotle’s words on education are as relevant to that process as that of minimalism: Maybe doing one room each day or each week, until you are done, is the best approach for you? What I think is important is for you to first assess your own personality, your own sources of motivation, and figure out what approach will keep you going to the end. Then there are others who advocate a longer de-cluttering process, taken in steps over a period of time that works for you. ‘Garbage bag’ is a dirty word, am I right? She uses the word garbage bag way too many times for my liking. My one reservation, which I’ve mentioned before, is that her book does not offer strategies for discarding things in an ecological way. This is quite an uncommon perspective, but one I share, and I’m so happy she has brought it to a mass audience. I also really love her discussion of the deep respect we should show to things and inanimate objects. That said, I do recommend people read her book, not necessarily for the process she recommends, but for her excellent discussion of all the positive benefits of de-cluttering and setting your home in order, along with the many social and health benefits you wouldn’t imagine result from decluttering. Wait, what?! That’s just slightly impossible to imagine if you work full time, have young children and/or are single parenting. If you’ve read books about de-cluttering, like Marie Kondo’s opus, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, you’ll know that she recommends doing your tidying and discarding all in one go. Many of these things are the things that easily accumulate like toys, books, and clothing. We don’t have a car, we don’t have a dining table ( read here), we don’t have a desktop computer, TV, air conditioning and so on. That said, we don’t have a lot of things that families consider necessary and basic. However, we live in Canada and not in poverty so I know we’re living very well. We are not a family living in luxury there are many basic things we go without, not entirely by choice, but by matter of circumstance (mainly lack of money). ![]() Minimalism is more than just stuff, but that is a big part of it, at least when you begin. In this post I’ll share with you some of the things that worked for getting me and our family going with minimalism, especially with regard to decluttering and living with less. Process is about experience, learning, trial and error. ![]() Truthfully, there is no pure or perfect there is process. I am no expert, nor am I a perfect or pure minimalist.
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