Becoming Minimalist
I had a thought last night that I wanted to wake up this morning and get rid of 75% of the ‘stuff’ that I own. […]
How do you start to get rid of these things?
Get some sort of external storage. The basement, a small rental storage unit, your parents’ place, or New Jersey. The less convenient it is to access, the better.
Put nearly everything you own there. Leave out only what you’d pack if you were going on a trip for 2 weeks.
From that point forward, remove only what you need, as you need it, from storage. You’ll almost never need to do this.
After a year, get rid of everything that’s still in storage.
I like the sound of this, but it’s completely against a dream/ambition of mine to own some really nice pieces of art contemporary one day, which is surely only buying stuff for the sake of buying stuff. I’m sure true anti-possessions minimalists don’t have big neon word installations in their lounge.
