Minimalism update
May. 23rd, 2011 08:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flexagonI may have bought a pair of unnecessary earrings yesterday.
However, in the last week or so I've gotten rid of: a smartphone, two hardcover books, a graphic novel, a calendar, some unloved bras, a ficus tree (just today!) and all my cross-stitching stuff. Some twinge on that last one -- but it turns out I haven't done any cross-stitch for about eight years.
No more watering the tree, sweeping up its leaves, trying to get Hobbes to stop eating said leaves or cleaning up after he throws up a leaf. Hmmmm. I wonder how much time I just reclaimed?
This is how I keep myself honest about shirts. Every time I do laundry the clean shirts go in the closet on the left. Every morning I start scanning from the right until I encounter something I feel like wearing. Once a month I move a plastic ring into place.
If something doesn't get worn for 3 months, and it's not wildly out of season, it means I already chose not to wear it 90+ times. Time to say goodbye, perhaps.
(I wrote the above last night and then fell crash asleep on the couch at 8PM. What?)
However, in the last week or so I've gotten rid of: a smartphone, two hardcover books, a graphic novel, a calendar, some unloved bras, a ficus tree (just today!) and all my cross-stitching stuff. Some twinge on that last one -- but it turns out I haven't done any cross-stitch for about eight years.
No more watering the tree, sweeping up its leaves, trying to get Hobbes to stop eating said leaves or cleaning up after he throws up a leaf. Hmmmm. I wonder how much time I just reclaimed?
This is how I keep myself honest about shirts. Every time I do laundry the clean shirts go in the closet on the left. Every morning I start scanning from the right until I encounter something I feel like wearing. Once a month I move a plastic ring into place.
If something doesn't get worn for 3 months, and it's not wildly out of season, it means I already chose not to wear it 90+ times. Time to say goodbye, perhaps.
(I wrote the above last night and then fell crash asleep on the couch at 8PM. What?)
