over the last few years i've cut my luxury collection by about half for example i've sold 60
of my cartier jewelry collection two years ago i let go of my cartier love bracelet and the cartier
juste un clou bracelet and recently i also sold my just unclear ring a very common question i get is
are you not worried about regretting your decisions especially because designer items
are always going up in prices now i don't have all the answers but i know i'm a lot happier
and i want to share with you the things i've learned from halving my designer collection
first of all i realized regret or sellers remorse is not always a bad thing i've always said
i never really have any major selfish remorse but there is one thing i kind of wish i didn't sell
which is the louis vuitton montaigne mm in the black empreine leather i really enjoyed
using this bag but i decided to sell it because i wanted to make room for my hermes kelly 28 which
ironically i've not been using much but here's the thing even though i sometimes miss the louis
vuitton montaigne mm i never feel like rushing to the louis vuitton store to buy another one
so what i've learned from all this is things are just things and if you make a mistake it's quite
okay it's really not the end of the world i try to be rational with how i declutter it but just like
everything else in life not all my decisions will be perfect but for me the benefits of downsizing
simply outweigh the potential and occasional regrets or sellers remorse another thing i've
learned from halving my luxury collection is i don't have to be too strict with myself sometimes
there are things that i don't use much but i'm not ready to let them go yet for whatever reason
and if i feel like i need more time to think it over then that's exactly what i'll do at
the beginning of my decluttering journey a lot of my decisions were driven by guilt because
i really beat myself up for spending so mindlessly and i wanted to reverse my mistakes and i was so
rigid with myself about how much i wanted to declutter by a certain time and you can
imagine it was quite stressful especially when you're dealing with fairly expensive pieces
i'm still not perfect and i'm still learning not to be too hard on myself because what is done is
done and it's more important to be intentional going forward after halving my luxury collection
i also realized that if you want to downsize or declutter it is up to you to decide about
what to keep and what to let go of now there's some really amazing decluttering videos
out there and i think they are great for people who are looking for inspirations or very general
rules of thumb but they are not specific nor are they tailored to our preferences needs occupations
family size body shapes hair color and so on and so forth i think you get the idea something else
i've learned from having my luxury collection is when you own less things you have more time
now the selling process is time consuming but once i've decluttered my way to a smaller collection
i got so much time back now i have less decision fatigue and i also spend less time on tidying
cleaning organizing and shopping when i look back at the last two years i'm so glad i took the time
to slow down and reflect on what i value in life rather than just going through the motion like a
zombie so i've been doing a lot of journaling and the things that keep popping up on my list
of priorities include having the flexibility of my own time finding my passion and doing more of what
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membership for one month another thing i came to realize from halving my luxury collection is that
i can actually live on a lot less than i previously thought in the last few
years i've been selling way more than i've been shopping contrary to what some people might think
i never feel deprived with having a smaller collection that really impacts on my relationship
with material things and my general outlook on life it's like i had this enlightenment that
i didn't actually have to work so hard just to sustain an unhealthy shopping behavior i feel like
this is something you have to experience yourself to know how liberating it actually feels at the
moment i'm spending about 10 of what i used to spend on designer shopping which is crazy but i've
never been happier or calmer i feel like that's a sense of peace in me because i know if i ever want
to have a break go part time or have a change of career i would do just fine because my happiness
is not dependent on the size of my designer bag collection i just want to add a little disclaimer
here though because i'm not suggesting to never buy anything quite the contrary i actually see a
lot of values in building a timeless collection or wardrobe in fact i've been so consistent with low
buy myself because i built my perfect collection that said that's just so much more to life
than spending all your waking hours and pushing yourself really hard just to buy things you don't
even enjoy using halving my luxury collection also taught me that the perfect minimalist collection
is not defined by a number and it's not like when you reach that certain number of handbags
or clothes or shoes you'll be happily ever after decluttering for me is more of a continuous
conscious effort to address my possessions based on how my life is changing and evolving a year ago
i really thought i had arrived at my happy place i thought that was it and i never had to worry about
listing or selling my items again but nothing was further from the truth we all know change is
the only consistency in life and decluttering is just one of the ways we accommodate those changes
decluttering my designer collection by half also taught me that i don't have to replace something
or fill the space in my wardrobe every time i sell something this wasn't always easy i remember years
ago when i sold my cceline nano luggage tote i got about 700 pounds for it at first i was quite upset
because the bag was brand new and i couldn't believe how much money i lost from selling it
but that money felt like free money and you know what i did i immediately went to hermes
and i bought myself two rodeo charms which i didn't even enjoy using that cycle went on and on
for quite some time and then i started realizing i wasn't actually downsizing so to shift my focus
i started putting all the same money into an investment account because that way i had no
access to it and i did that for quite a long time and then i started realizing the whole point of
decluttering is to curate not to replace at the end of the day if i decide to let something go
it doesn't mean i'm now missing something or that my wardrobe is now incomplete it really just means
i've let go of something that doesn't serve me anymore something else i've learned from halving
my designer collection is luxury price increases are good news but only for the luxury houses in
a lot of the cases selling luxury items and making a profit from it is just not the reality
at least not for individual sellers like me and you i mean a lot of the things i've sold were in
really good condition and many were the so-called classic pieces but that didn't stop me from losing
a lot of money now i can understand the sentiment of not wanting to pay more i guess that's why a
lot of people would rush to buy a louis vuitton or a chanel handbag right before the price increase
but sometimes that saving might not be worth it if you end up having to sell the bag anyway because
you never liked it that much in the first place sadly i have a lot of first-hand experience with
this so now i'm no longer obsessively check the luxury price increases because i don't want that
to influence how and what i buy so those are the lessons i've learned from decluttering
50 of my designer collection i hope this video will give you some ideas if you're also looking to
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