I Want to Be More of a Minimalist

@sunchild777 The ultra-rich and the unemployed ultra-poor both have the asset of having a lot of time on their hands to organize. If you are ultra-poor I guess the problem then becomes that you barely get by and probably have a very small place, so you have even more extreme problems getting everything minimalist. Anyone can make a 4000 square foot home look empty with a lot of work and planning. Making an 800 square foot apartment look empty might be tougher.

I guess Christ managed to do minimalism. There are people who manage to live out of a backpack. It can be done.

P.S., Judging by lack of responses on this story, I think we are the only minimalist wannabees on SW. Everyone else is busy maxing out their charge cards.

Have you seen that book by Japanese author Marie Kondo? I love the idea of a minimal life, but I can never clear enough material off my plate to make progress on that. I feel like you need to have $20M tucked away, then quit your job, and then you can focus on minimizing your footprint. It's hard to minimize when you constantly have new inputs appearing. It feels like a serious full time job to minimize well.

When I was much younger I did exactly that. I lived in a hippy commune in California for about a year. It was interesting but things like clean clothes and air conditioning were nice and not there.

@sunchild777 Still, it feels to me that you have to be very rich to focus on making your life very small.

I do find the goal of a minimum footprint - and minimum clutter - attractive.

But what about poor people who just can't afford to buy anything anyway?

Edit: a lot of people become minimalist due to debt problems in the first place.

I understand what you mean. I have heard of her method but it's easier to just start off slow.