Blog Category: Minimalism

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Minimalism

Project 333 and my secret obsession with wanting to be a minimalist

I recently read Project 333 by Courtney Carver. Her proposition is simple: create a capsule wardrobe from 33 items to help eliminate stress and gain more from life by living with less. For Carver, receiving an MS diagnosis was her wake up call that something about her lifestyle needed to change. So she went about trying to simplify her life by simplifying her stuff, and came up with the idea of her Project 333 challenge. This isn’t the first book about minimalism that has completely drew me in, hook, line and sinker. A few years ago, I read Goodbye, things by Fumio Sasaki and his way of thinking just made So. Much. Sense.

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Minimalism

How living a minimalist life will give you unexpected freedom

Recently, I wrote about why instant gratification is a recipe for disaster. I mentioned in that post that I love stuff, and I’m definitely not a minimalist. Although this is still true, I’ve always been fascinated by minimalism as a way of life. There is something alluring in owning less. I don’t think I could ever reach a minimalist lifestyle, but the concept still holds my interest. Something about it is attractive to me.

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