I’m excited to finally talk about the current and future instead of the past.
My wife and I had been talking about purchasing a home for over a year. With that kind of headway, we had time to prep for a move. Around that time, we watched the Minimalism documentary on Netflix and were intrigued. We already had a pretty uncluttered life, but we felt we could do better. Wanting to decrease the burden of moving a lot of clutter was excellent motivation.
Leading up to the move, I would say we got a perfect head start on decluttering making a move quite a bit easier and cheaper. It also helped with the fact that our new home is smaller than where we had been living. Space is at a premium, and if we hadn’t made that declutter effort, we would probably be drowning in our boxes right now.
Now that we’ve moved, I was eyeballing finishing the minimalism conversion once and for all. Just like I finally tackled my years-long attempt to organize my digital photos, I wanted to master this minimalism game.
A few months have gone by, and I still haven’t started. Then Marie Kondo released her Netflix documentary, and now it’s trendy. I think that sparked some renewed energy in my wife as soon after I found a bag of donate-ready clothes sitting in our living room. I’m almost ready, but not quite there. For me, this Blog hijacked my efforts. Once I finish pre-creating content, I’ll be prepared to go full blast on Minimalizing.
Why I wanted to discuss this project in a Boredom blog is because I think Minimalism and Boredom go hand in hand. If you fill your life with gadgets, distractions, clutter, doodads, flashing lights, and everything else, then you’ll always be preoccupied with something. Tinkering with all of that alone would keep you preoccupied. On top of that, there’s all of the overhead that goes into maintaining all of that.
There is the mental clutter that comes with physical clutter. Our brains can only do so much. What’s more valuable? Letting your mind spend it’s processing power on all of the essential things in your life or spending it on.
I’m excited to get through this project. And once it’s all done, I feel like a mental and physical weight will be gone from our lives. Maybe the first week of a minimalized house, I’ll sit in the middle of a room and bask in it’s Boring.
(Written 2019.01.24)
My wife and I had been talking about purchasing a home for over a year. With that kind of headway, we had time to prep for a move. Around that time, we watched the Minimalism documentary on Netflix and were intrigued. We already had a pretty uncluttered life, but we felt we could do better. Wanting to decrease the burden of moving a lot of clutter was excellent motivation.
Leading up to the move, I would say we got a perfect head start on decluttering making a move quite a bit easier and cheaper. It also helped with the fact that our new home is smaller than where we had been living. Space is at a premium, and if we hadn’t made that declutter effort, we would probably be drowning in our boxes right now.
Now that we’ve moved, I was eyeballing finishing the minimalism conversion once and for all. Just like I finally tackled my years-long attempt to organize my digital photos, I wanted to master this minimalism game.
A few months have gone by, and I still haven’t started. Then Marie Kondo released her Netflix documentary, and now it’s trendy. I think that sparked some renewed energy in my wife as soon after I found a bag of donate-ready clothes sitting in our living room. I’m almost ready, but not quite there. For me, this Blog hijacked my efforts. Once I finish pre-creating content, I’ll be prepared to go full blast on Minimalizing.
Why I wanted to discuss this project in a Boredom blog is because I think Minimalism and Boredom go hand in hand. If you fill your life with gadgets, distractions, clutter, doodads, flashing lights, and everything else, then you’ll always be preoccupied with something. Tinkering with all of that alone would keep you preoccupied. On top of that, there’s all of the overhead that goes into maintaining all of that.
There is the mental clutter that comes with physical clutter. Our brains can only do so much. What’s more valuable? Letting your mind spend it’s processing power on all of the essential things in your life or spending it on.
I’m excited to get through this project. And once it’s all done, I feel like a mental and physical weight will be gone from our lives. Maybe the first week of a minimalized house, I’ll sit in the middle of a room and bask in it’s Boring.
(Written 2019.01.24)
