This month in review: we have collected Four Boxes and labeled each as, Share, Sell, Toss, and now Donate. Each week we focused on showing a new box some love by stuffing it to its max.
Man, oh man, I wish I had a photo of the HUGE bag I donated yesterday...argghh.
Regardless of a photo to prove my involvement, you'll have to take me at my word, can I just tell you how fulfilling it felt to donate some stuff to those who can actually use it? Wow, it is like cool water.
As a nation, we here in the USoA tend to hoard and drown in our stuff. It is just stuff, and yet we stockpile it and grasp it with fists clenched so tight that we are losing ourselves in the process.
He who dies with the most toys wins, I guess.
There is this trendy new thing that people are doing which comes down to minimizing life. Minimizing stuff. I like it.
As a child, my sister and I would often play Barbies with our cousin Misty. Nicoletta and I had a huge (ginormous, really) barrel of Barbies and Barbie 'fixins. The three of us would each load up our homes with stuff, gather more stuff for Barbie's car, Skipper's bedroom, and Ken's golf game. After some time, when the excitement of stuff overload lost its appeal, my Barbie would so sleuthly throw a yard sale and my sister and cousin would gush over the abundance of stuff my Barbie no longer needed.
Eventually, I would be done playing Barbie and have very little to clean up. My Barbie learned how to become a minimalist and she and I tag-teamed the clean up duty and won!
Once my sister caught on as well and on one particular day our cousin ended up putting practically every piece of Barbie's world back in the ginormous barrel alone. She was not exactly thrilled.
That thrilling sensation of the best yard sale find of the day- you can have that feeling multiplied when you learn to give away freely and often.
So we covered Share when we sought out particular people to bless with our special/not-really-special to-us-any-longer, items. Sell are those items we might make a little income with, thank you Craig's List and E-Bay! Toss is the crap we have been holding onto and we really don't know why. This leaves us with Donate. Many people will find your trash endearing. Mine as well.
So today I am wondering friend, what do you think of this minimalist lifestyle?
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