How to Become Minimalist?

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• #1 Recognize your situation

  I am sure there are many many things around you. You haven't even touched them for months. Or years. Even, I can imagine you not seeing them. Actually they are around you without noticing them. These are the things from which you have to get rid of first. I am moving now, to a new, smaller apartment. So this is the time for me to choose: what I want into my new home? What I want to be part of my life? What is that I really need? I really use...? And what are the things which are only there with me because long ago I thought I need them? But as it turned I do not need/touch/see them at all.

• #2 Sorting out

  So, now you know that you have too many possessions. Everything around you ca be judged. Souvenirs, furniture, pillows, candles, clothes, rugs, slippers, everything. Your task is to make four groups, observing each and every thing: 1. You use it (touch) every day, or at least one a week. You probably will need that stuff, that was the easy part.

• #3 Sorting out

  1. You dot use it regularly, but find great joy in that, makes you feel way better, gives you motivation, power, energy. You feel excitement, you see it beautiful. If it would be lost, you would be sad, and would feel that a part of you faded away. If you experience this intensive emotions, that thing probably can stay.

• #4 Sorting out

  1. The third group is for your stuff, which are not used every day, and does not trigger something huge in you. But you simply like them, maybe you got it from someone special. It is a great decoration, the cool design shows that: "Yes, I am this cool!" You bought it abroad. Or it is something extra, like, if the one which you are using goes wrong, you have an alternative, so you are on the safe side.

• #5 Sorting out

  1. "Hey, what is this?" Even you look at the thing, thinking this. Maybe some clothes, some decor. Or you are cleaning the house, and then find it boring to dust that, or move that in order to make a deep cleaning. It can be something what you kept in case of someone else would need it. This is the group, probably the biggest one, which can be thrown directly into the trash. Along with the third group.

• #6 Feel the difference

  Maybe it was long, maybe it was hard, maybe it took a lot of time, but, finally, you are here. Less burden, less things to surround you, more space for your emotional and mental growth, clean space for good vibes.

• #7 Extra tip

  Imagine that you are going to a one-week adventure. You travel abroad, you will live in hostels, you will bike and hike a lot. But you will eat out and also will get a tan on the beach. What do you have in your backpack? Yes. Compare it to your belongings which are at home.

• #8 Extra tip

  Clothes Mostly girls, but also true in case boys, that you have too many clothes. How to sort them out? Read my next guide!

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