Sometime at the start of this year, I was just browsing through reddit. I clicked on random and this subreddit appeared. I read a couple of posts and then closed it. But several days later, I was thinking about it more and more. So I searched for this page again and with that I found declutter, konmari and anticonsumption.
All of this changed my worldview. I mean, I always found joy in cleaning up my room and getting rid of a lot of things, but I always kept a lot more of them and started to buy even more pointless stuff.
After day and night of reading through these subreddits, I woke up and just started decluttering. For real. I was merciless. I am still a student in college and I live in my parents house, so I don't own all the things by myself (kitchen stuff, etc), but atleast I cleansed my own room.
I had a lot of old magazines (mostly gaming), a lot of books, piles of clean unused paper (but what was the last time I wrote something on paper?), mountains of t-shirts and some old plastic toys from when I was young.
With my progress that day (and the next couple of days), my mind was getting more and more clear. I was purging, but there was still some stuff that I didn't wanna just throw away. But with more and more things gone, I was realizing that those things doesn't matter at all.
A threw away more than 50% of my things. I divided my room into segments. Like, shelf on one side, storage under bed, closet, table. Most fun I had with clothes. I had so many t-shirts that I was not wearing at all. And I even decided that I don't wanna wear clothes with big brand logos on it, I don't wanna pay them so I can advertise more.
After all of that, I have 4 t-shirts for home, 4 for school. 4 pants for school (and that is still too much, maybe), 2 sweatpant for home, 3 shorts for summer, 1 winter jacket, 1 nice jacket, 1 jacket for outside (when I go with my dog), some hoodies and that's about it (of course + socks and underwear). I have 1 pair of winter boots, 1 pair of outdoor boot for home and I'm going to buy another pair of boots for summer months, because now I don't have any. The last one was not that cheap, Puma brand, but got destroyed after a few months. Real quality /s. I'm buying work shoes, quality ones.
The hardest part for me were books. I love books and I always admired my little library, how many books I had. Now I have only 1/3 of what I had. I kept the unread and good ones. The rest I sold and I got quite some money from it.
Right now, I think I'm done. Almost. I found joy in getting rid of things. Every day I find something to throw away and I am so happy to do that. :D Even if it's a broken pen or something. My room contains only those thing that have some meaning to me and that I can see on first sight, no more stored thrash under my bed. And you know what? It's more than half empty. None of that stuff I had mattered.
I still have some things that I'm selling, because I don't wanna just throw them away. I hope they will sell and I can have some of that wasted money back.
But this is just the beginning. The most important thing is, that I changed my way of thinking. I became more anti consumerist and I wanna live more simply. Since I started at the start of this year, I haven't bought anything besides one cofee few days before. Of course, my parents are buying the food and paying for water, but those things are quite necessary for everyone.
I stopped buying junk food more than 10 years ago. I was never one of those people who buy food during the day, I always had lunch prepared from home. I never even carry a lot of money with me. Couple of years before I started to drink only water and it's the best. Sometimes I flavor it with tea bags.
But now I don't even have to buy anything more. I mean those things, those pointless things. I don't need them, I don't want them, because I have everything I need.
Some months before I changed my smarthphone to Nokia 3410. That was my second phone in my life and it is still the best. I don't use any social media (except YouTube and Reddit), so I never even used any of those smarthphone apps. I stopped playing mobile games. I was just not using it for anything. So I'm good with ordinary phone, because I don't even need any of that and I'm sick of people glued to their screen outside, everywhere. I'm sick of those Facebook messenger sounds. Just stop already. Or atleast mute that thing, jeez.
But anyway, I feel great now. I'm excited of the beginning of this new life. Now I just need to declutter my digital consuming (shows and games). I'm using IMDB and when I wanna watch something, I always make sure it's rating is 8/10 or more. Otherwise it's not worth my time, because there is always something better in this world.
tl;dr found this subreddit, decluttered a lot, changed my way of thinking and I feel great. :)
Submitted February 10, 2017 at 07:34AM by Science_monkey http://ift.tt/2lywIZb
