- Minimalism is the practice of relentlessly trimming bullshit — physical and otherwise.
- Happiness that fades the fastest is the sort that comes with a monthly payment.
- Quality over quantity is the way.
- You don’t need more storage, you need fewer things.
- Storage is a holding area for things you should simply get rid of.
- Most clutter is a result of indecision.
- ‘Just in case’ rarely happens.
- No one ever died thinking they should have bought more stuff.
- You don’t need to keep your diploma.
- You can wear the same outfit every day because no one cares and most won’t notice.
- Shopping is not a hobby.
- Cheap consumer products are merely transitory trash on a journey to the landfill.
- Minimalism and discomfort are not mutually exclusive.
- If you have a favorite something, it means you have other things you could probably get rid of.
- If you haven’t used it in the last 6 months you probably won’t use it in the next 6 months.
- No one is impressed by your stuff as much as you are.
- The cost of things goes far beyond their initial purchase price.
- You can have what some never will and that thing is ‘enough’.
- Holding onto things you no longer need is a form of living in the past.
- Corporations and the advertising industry tricked the world into endlessly chasing its tail.
- Most of the things we hang onto for the sake of past investment are subject to the sunk-cost fallacy.
- Attachment is suffering.
- An economy based upon ever-increasing consumption is only sustainable at the expense of consumers.
- You can opt-out.
- Wanting, envy, and social conditioning fools us into spending money we desperately need on things we certainly do not.
- Your possessions shouldn’t cause stress.
- If you are not a happy person, there is nothing you can buy that will change that in the long term.
- A person can add to their life by subtracting the superfluous areas that drain time and energy.
- The goal of productivity shouldn’t be to get more done, but to have less to do.
- A well-designed life is one designed for sustainability.
- Things are a poor substitute for a personality.
- You can edit your life by removing the things that drain your energy like people, tasks, and clutter.
- If it causes a problem, it is a problem.
- Visual clutter is mind pollution.
- Storage bins are not the answer for things you don’t use or need.
- A life of living with less is a life that is full of the things that truly matter.
- Consumerism is a hamster wheel of spending and earning instead of actually living.
- You can be a sentimental person without holding on to trinkets.
- A growth-centered life is one that embraces letting go.
- It takes very little to be a happy person.
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August 18, 2022