A couple of years ago a friend sent me a link to this blog post. Every once in a while when I feel like my life is getting cluttered I reread it and feel like there is hope. Now I only have to learn to put her principles into practice. The author lists five principles to taming materialism:
1.Test the meaning of money by doing stuff that's scary.
2. Put a bunch of stuff in storage to see what it's like.
3. Understand the concept of aspirational clutter. Get reality and throw stuff out.
4. Know this: You could dump everything if you had to.
5. Throwing stuff out is not wasteful.
I love number 3. There are so many things in my life that I have because I aspire to be a particular kind of person. The part about getting reality and throwing stuff out I'm definitely still working on. But someday I hope to be there. I definitely still have a long way to go before I've really tamed my materialism, but I hope to live a junk free life one day soon.
Maybe this weekend when I'm ready to throw my homework out the window I'll clean my room instead...
1.Test the meaning of money by doing stuff that's scary.
2. Put a bunch of stuff in storage to see what it's like.
3. Understand the concept of aspirational clutter. Get reality and throw stuff out.
4. Know this: You could dump everything if you had to.
5. Throwing stuff out is not wasteful.
I love number 3. There are so many things in my life that I have because I aspire to be a particular kind of person. The part about getting reality and throwing stuff out I'm definitely still working on. But someday I hope to be there. I definitely still have a long way to go before I've really tamed my materialism, but I hope to live a junk free life one day soon.
Maybe this weekend when I'm ready to throw my homework out the window I'll clean my room instead...
2 comments:
I feel like I'm CONSTANTLY dejunking. I'd like to think that I'm not a packrat, but there's always more stuff to get rid of. If can live out of a regular sized backpack for multi-week vacations, why do I need so much stuff in my regular life?!
That is exactly how I feel. I've lived out of a smallish suitcase for several months at a time before. And yet I own more stuff than fits in my car. There's something wrong with this picture.
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