I can show like no impulsive buying
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do you find yourself looking around your house and thinking why do I have so much stuff?
you can think we have a time,
yes I know that feeling
Engin maybe not, but I do know
the reason actually I do not know, I never had to much stuff
I was living in a village before I know minimalism. I guess I was kind of actually minimalist
but she introduced me what minimalism is and I become a minimalist
so when I was living in Ukraine and just quit my job
I started to look on all my things like clothes, different kind of dishes, glasses and so on
and I was thinking "why do I need all those stuff?" it took me two-three years
to filter everything well and still my parents are keeping some amount of these things
but right now, since we started to be like a digital nomad, we have only
two suitcase, two backpacks and one cosmetic bag of Lena, which you can maybe put me inside too :D
you know girls cosmetic bags
but anyway we keep everything we need for life in that small bag
exactly exactly
today I want to focus on things that I don't buy as a minimalist
clothes
actually if I am buying some clothes
it should match all my wardrobe. so I have just that things that I wear every week
no clothes which I wear like one or two times
shoes. please, don't throw them
each of us has just one pair of shoes and one slippers
and actually everything also match all our clothes
bags. actually it's enough to have one backpack
and one small bag, where I can keep my phone, my wallet and some small stuffs
Engin doesn't need that
exactly. OMG I don't need anything
the thing is I'm keeping everything in small bag for both of us
cosmetics and makeup things. just my daily things. no less no more
these daily things can change person to person
and books. we don't really buy books right now. we use applications, which you can listen books
which is perfect for us and it's easier. so we don't have to carry all those heavy books
dishes
I was buying a lot before, it was the biggest and heaviest part of my house
of course now, when I'm traveling, I don't need dishes at all. But you definitely can minimize that.
Coffee. Most of you know how often you go outside and drink coffee
with a friend, whit a colleague, with a boss, with a girlfriend
and in the end when you count in a month it makes a lot of money.
And we decided to make instead of like going outside and buying
we decided to make it in the house
which ended up good, but at the same time little bit bad, because we started doing it too much
because Lena likes it so much. And there is one thing that we discovered on this journey
to make some savings there is something called "Latte rule"
something like this. So we started put $5.00 a day in somewhere
and in the end of the six months we gather like $1,000 which could be saving in our trip
so instead of buying coffee outside you can just put these money and save that
and you will see what you have in six months. it's perfect. and think about, in two years or three years.
New gadgets. I don't buy every year new laptop, new phone or you earphone.
actually it's like two three years still productive
you can see, she still actually have iPhone 5 and I have iPhone6. They're working great. Yeah, and we are happy.
And souvenirs. You can see, I don't know why people buy those kind of stuffs
why do they really need it. if the things gives you a volume - we keep it usually
but if it doesn't give, we don't buy it. We decided to buy more things that we can eat
or try like spices in different countries, which ended up really good for us
yeah it didn't take place, at least you can take it from country
for example for your friends or something. they could try it
yeah they will not keep anything in the house. exactly. And it's cool
No impulsive buying. Sometimes we are coming to market and
see SALE. yeah? all girls know about this. and you can see that nice price and think
Maybe I need that. But it's better to do all buying just that you planed.
Just that you need. And it will save a lot of money and space.
I know that sometimes it's hard to let past go and start something new
but by little steps one by one you suddenly can find yourself more happy
The one thing that on this journey that I understand
and most probably Lena understand it too. Whenever we see people
especially the people will always smile - is the people that who has less. They are always happy and they are living their life with the less things.
So it was so emotional and good for us and it taught us on this and it taught us on this journey.
And we wanted to share this Minimalist philosophy of living
but those people who has no idea about Minimalism
already living that way and they're so happy, which actually I didn't know too
like in the beginning of the video I said to you, guys
Yeah, and I can to add that one of my favorite proverbs it's like "less is more"
So it means like... it doesn't mean that you don't need to buy anything, you need to keep your self tight
it means that you need just that things that you really need
yeah. so you can pay good money for good quality things but that you really need
for example we have some cameras, laptops... they're really expensive, but it's our dream
to work with these things. exactly. You can spend money, but spend them exactly that way that you want. In a smart way.
yeah, I hope you enjoyed the video, guys
We wanted to share what our view on this. If you stopped to buy also something
then comment down below, let us know, what exactly you stopped to buy and why?
okay enough trying to be cool let's go