Miss Minimalist: Inspiration to Downsize, Declutter, and Simplify
My feeling is that minimalists are people who know what’s truly necessary for them versus what they may want for the sake of appearance, and they’re not afraid to cut down on everything in the second category.
Fumio Sasaki • Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism
Make the most essential activities the easiest ones. Stop filling our head with unnecessary thoughts or needless emotional burdens, clear up the clutter in our head and heart. Make our tasks fun to do. Rest properly and don’t overload ourself or push ourself to burnout. Break our tasks down into several steps and make the first step very easy to do
... See moreExperts in decluttering and home organization generally give a thumbs-up to Marv’s “five crates” approach, or some similar system of sorting items into categories, including: “Trash,” “Save,” “Sell,” and “Giveaway.” Many decluttering authorities even endorse Marv’s creation of a “Who Knows?” category—a place to set some things aside at least tempor
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