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They targeted our narcissistic tendencies, and they won! I was in high school and the year was 1975 and advertisements began targeting men and women, older in age, with the notion they needed to drive that Mustang, dress in designer clothing and buy this makeup if they wanted to be anyone of importance. If I think back hard enough, I can almost remember how I old I was when it happened. It wasn’t until my generation grew up that we started being inundated with the notion that somehow we were deprived as children and began down the road of overindulgence.

We were a society of less is more, and everyone seemed ok with that. Even families that had a bit more money didn’t overindulge their children either. We didn’t have any junk because we just didn’t have that much stuff.Īnd it wasn’t just because we were broke. I had one coat per season and a pair of gloves. I owned three pairs of shoes – school, play and church and had one pair of boots and a pair of rubbers (and I don’t mean condoms). We never went on vacation, wore hand-me-downs, grew our fruits and veggies, rarely if ever ate out, had a small but reasonable amount of toys, and spent most of our days outside exploring. As such, my parents didn’t indulge us kids every whim. I grew up with the generation of parents that were of the Great Depression Era. Ten years! So despite curbing my shopaholic tendencies, I clearly had a ways to go when it came to adopting a somewhat minimalistic lifestyle.Īnd that got me thinking about how much I hated having to sort through all the stuff that didn’t bring me joy, how much I do detest cluttereven if it’s out of sight behind a closed closet and how much the older I get, the more minimalism appeals to me. I had clothing in my closet that was at least ten years old, that I had never parted with. I mean I hardly ever shop now unless it’s for a t-shirt and a pair of yoga pants, my almost daily outfit, so where did all this stuff come from? Why Minimalism Is Appealing To Me In the book, Kondo tells you to pick up an object and ask yourself one simple question, ‘does the object you’re contemplating parting with bring you joy?’ If the answer is no, you get rid of it and if the answer is yes, you keep it.Īs I sorted, discarded and held an object and asking myself if it brought me joy, I was struck at how much clothing, shoes and accessories I had accumulated over the years. If you’re not familiar with the Kon Mari method, it’s from the book, The Magic Process of Tidying Up, by Marie Kondo. Throughout the process, I applied the Kon Mari Methodto my decision making.

In the end, I ended up with six garbage bags. I spent an entire Saturday sorting through my clothes, purging what I no longer wanted or needed. The date isn’t set in stone, and we just recently put an offer on a house, but I have begun the process of getting ready for a yard sale in preparation for ridding myself of certain belongings that I don’t want to make the trip. I’m going to be moving sometime this year.

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