Have you ever thought about how much money you actually spend each year just buying things? I’m not talking about consumables like toilet paper and soap. These are things that I consider necessary in our lives, maybe not to actually survive, but more to survive in the society we live in today. If you never […]
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Stress has always been a big part of my life in many ways. Life has always brought stress into my life and I have never really understood how to reduce stress and at the same time continue to integrate into society. But then I discovered the Slow Living lifestyle and it changed my view of
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Just like with everything else, there are pros and cons to minimalism as well.It may seem strange that I write that there are disadvantages because for the personal individual there are only advantages as I see it. Yes, apart from the fact that you might accidentally declutter something that you may need later. But what
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Children’s things can take over the home if you don’t maintain them and create boundaries about where these things can go. The amount of toys differs enormously between the continents as well. America is the country that has the most toys per child and there you often have your own rooms for the children, a
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When I took a walk the other day, I started thinking about what I was going to do when I got home and I realized that when I start thinking about what I’m going to do later, I’m not living here and now in the present moment. Thinking ahead is the same as thinking about
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I didn’t understand from the beginning when I declutter my things that I also needed to stop buying things. It was like a constant vicious cycle where I purged but kept bringing things in. It took many years before I understood that I had to change my buying pattern, change my behavior if things were
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When computers and the internet came, it was predicted that paper would now decrease, but on the contrary, the consumption of paper has increased and paper comes into our homes in all possible forms. Some are easier to handle than others, such as the flyers that arrive, while others are more difficult, such as the
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Taste the word minimalist. Take the beginning of the word “MINI”. That is exactly what it stands for. Minimal, i.e. a little of everything. Even if you mostly think of minimalist as little things, there are three different branches, minimalist lifestyle, minimalist interior design and minimalist art. A minimalist has no need to own a
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We are bombarded with advertising all the time. Companies that want us to buy their products. Everywhere we turn these days, this comes up before our eyes. The trick is to learn to close our eyes to what we see. Or more precisely tell our brain, our RAS in the brain that other things are
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We rarely do anything flawlessly. Many things need to be trained before you can make these flawless and so also declutter. We are all different and we learn from different things. Some avoid mistakes to the last while others never seem to learn from their mistakes. No matter what type you are, we can state
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