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I'm just going to be talking to you guys about my sort of thought process of what happens after you declutter
What happens after you curl your possessions now. Don't get me wrong
I'm not the kind of minimalist who uses only one spoon and live out of a backpack and never wear makeup
That's just not me. That's not my personality
but I do believe in owning less and purchasing less and just investing in a few quality items rather than lots and lots of
average items the reason that I'm making this video is because a lot of people know how to declutter like they know how to
Pull everything out and sort through it and throw away what they don't want
But what happens after that so you've already gone through that thought process of do
I need this would I notice if it's missing how often am I using that and you put it aside into a pile?
Where you like? It's going somewhere, but it can't stay here now
it's how to reflect on that emotional side that hits a lot of people when they do cull their possessions
Why am I doing this why do I feel the need to own this we are born and bred to consume?
That's the human reason a nutshell though
isn't it like consume all the resources around the sun just
Destroy them the main reason that I did decide to make this video was because a lot of people were asking me ok well
I've purged my items but then I found I'm still buying more stuff for how do you find that you stopped junk from?
Accumulating and all that sort of thing and it's all to do with the habits that you have after that initial coal
Or declutter I remember this process can take a lot longer for some people than for others everyone is different, and that's what's awesome
But you're going to have to find what works for you personally like I can give my suggestions
But that might not work well for you
I found that doing bits of my house like room by room is what works for me other people find that doing that whole house?
Practically overnight works for them so once you've got your items separated from what you want to keep I find it works
Best if you put things into you four different categories you've got your trash things that cannot be cannot be repurposed
They're not good enough to him away to someone else. It's just rubbish basically then you've got your donate pile
What do you own that can help someone else?
you've got your giveaway pile that if you have a friend who need something or has been eyeing on one of the things that you've
Had for a while give that to them, and you have your sell pile as well
I find a lot of people like if you're getting rid of something that's more expensive a lot of people seem to have trouble
Parting with that because they invested a lot of money into it
Selling it is a good option for that with the purging of your items
I find people either sit in one of two parties, so you either
Completely just rip it to shreds just cull everything get it all out or you do the way that
I did was I went through and I kind of remove pieces at a time
I'm like what am I not going to notice? What's been sitting here that I haven't used take it away. Take it away
take it away, and that way I'm
Reducing down to the essentials. I'm not cutting a drastic amount and then going oh, but now I need to buy a new
Whatever just choose. Whatever way feels comfortable for you
I feel like the next step is to identify your
Essentials so remember minimalism is not just about all the things that you own or the lack of things that you own
But it's also about what's important to you. What do you want to spend your time on?
What do you want to spend your money on?
Personally I find for myself time is one of my rarest commodities, so I don't want to spend ages cleaning up after myself
I don't have the time to use a lot of things in my house like my most frequently used items are
Probably my camera gear and my computer equipment
That's the things that I will use most and of course you know you burn for sleeping and all of that kind of thing
So what's really really important to you?
What do you find that you center your life around, and it's all this other stuff out here necessary
so for me personally my core things are having free time and
only owning things that allow me the ability to
create
that's why I don't mind keeping a little bit of makeup now like I've gotten it all down to a bag about this size and
Used to have a lot more
But I've found the items that work for me and allow me to
Have enough variation in makeup looks because I enjoy doing that I also enjoy photography and taking photos
so I have my camera equipment, but
Anything else is just noise and clutter to me. So really fun. What you can eliminate
What's going to allow you to get to your most?
Whatever you want to be like most creative space almost free time that core value there for a little while now
I've been writing down the reasons that people tell me that they start to react ummul eight goods in their house
I'm mainly going to be talking about physical possessions in this video by the way like I've touched on time and
organization or that thing in other videos
I'm just gonna be talking about what happens when your possessions build back up
so I'm going to go through some of the reasons that people tell me there's have and I'm going to give my
You know point honest shed some of my line on it
I don't know how to put that so one of the really common ones that I get is but what if I need?
Insert whatever object it is here
my personal solution to this problem would be to call the way that I did it and that needs to go one room at A
Time and just reducing a few items at a time and do that over maybe like a week or so
I do have a 60-day minimalism challenge. That'll probably help you guys a lot. I'll link that in the description as well
I have a whole video on that. I'll pop that in the description, too
Everything is just going to be in the description. you know honestly you won't realize how much stuff or even don't actually use
until you start to go through it all properly and
Try not to have that emotional attachment to it as you're going through it
just have that logical reasoning side of yourself going do I actually need it another one is I don't have time to start you do
Just do a little bit at a time 20 minutes a day even another one is I feel happy when I buy new things
so that feeling of abundance
And maybe it's time to sit down and think why do you feel happiness just when you're purchasing things like is there nothing else?
That's making you happy that you can aim towards. I'll take myself personally as an example again
I feel happy when I find spare time to make stuff to share
So whether it's taking photos or making a video?
I want to mix up and feel creative at the end of the day well
I guess it sounds sober, but at the end of the day
We're all gonna die anyway you can't take your 72 pairs of shoes with you
And I used to be like [that] like I used to have over 100 pairs of shoes and now I'm gonna like some night
Not that many my partner or family won't do it with me. They don't have to this can just be something that you do
My partner does let me he likes to collect things he collects had some shoes and jerseys and that sort of thing
But we have come to an agreement in that you know I can do what I want to do
my bathroom is the way they like he lets me organize the bedroom the way that I like because
he knows that I feel more relaxed in [that] sort of space the
Common living areas like the lounge room and the kitchen and that sort of thing even he doesn't like them to be cluttered now
He's like no, we can't keep anything on the best shelves got to keep them clear
So if you can come to an agreement about the common areas, and that's awesome, but for yourself personally find your little areas
Where you can call and you can reduce and you can create a clutter free environment for yourself and another one that I get asked?
Or told is I just keep accumulating new things
I think I touched on this in a Q&A, but that's about combing your shopping habits. Well, that's what I think personally
I did also give these tips in an all the video, but I'll just quickly touch on them again
and so what I find with online shopping if you find you want something for online shopping like if it's not a necessity
Like it's not something that you actually need to survive
Then bookmark it and just keep it in the bookmarks folder you'll forget about it after a while unless if you find yourself constantly
Thinking back to that thing like every single day
I have stuff that I bookmark that I was like I'll really like this and then I've
Completely forgotten about it and two months later. I'll see the bookmark again
I'm like I'm glad I didn't get that because I don't really really like it
I'd select it at the time
And if I'm if you have a problem with shopping in you know real life like going through the mall or the shops or whatever
You want to call it? It's best
I was doing this when I was on a really tight budget and trying to save some money
I would go out with just like a bit of cash just enough to like get home or for some food or you know an
Emergency whatever and leave all my other cards at home so that I wasn't spending money from my bank account now
You've got a fiver works for you
But I find for me personally that slow ships are more sustainable
than quick overnight changes as the same when it came to losing weight
I find that changing little bits at a time is far more manageable
And it becomes an easier habit at the end of the day it is just about experimenting and finding
What is going to work for you?
And you have to keep plodding along metric until you find a point that you're happy with some people are
Incredible
And they can like cull their possessions down to the point where they can live out of a backpack and just go backpacking I couldn't
Do that and then the lifestyle doesn't appeal to me in the slightest. I really appreciate having a nicely decorated home
That's not filled with clutter
and it's filled with items that are only useful to me and ironing things that I actually love and I wear again and again and
Again, I remember when I was younger. I don't know how on Earth
I did it, but I had so many clothes and I'd go oh I'm seeing
Ingrid today, okay, well last time. I saw her. I wore this outfit
I don't know how
But I would recall every single outfit that I wore the last time I saw a person and I would intentionally not repeat that
Outfit I have no idea how I would remember that now
I can't even remember what I ate for breakfast yesterday, but for me at that stage in my life
That was such a priority to me to appear to be you know on trend and never repeating outfits
And I had so many shoes in so many clothes
But it was just stressful to me
Because I was worrying so much about what I was wearing
and if people saw me in the same thing and now I'll just go out wearing the same style outfit like six days in a
Row if you guys want me to tell you all about you know like what my history with minimalism
I guess you'd call it like where I started and where I'm at now
let me know in the comments below and I can definitely look at putting something like that together for you at the end of the
day if you are in for and more clutter-free
Lifestyle ask yourself where did your happiness lie?
and how can you point it away from those physical items I get happy when I'm creating I get happy when I'm exercising and
Both of those things don't involve me buying lots and lots of new stuff
So what is it it's going to make you feel content in your day like if you could do one thing every day that would
Make you really happy
What would it be I find it best relates to like
Processed and refined sugars and junk foods where if you're putting your happiness and these things that you're buying it's like when you eat
ton of sugary stuff
You're just going to be on this high and then you're going to crash, and then you're going to want more
And you're like all it will be used clothes aren't good enough. They're not in fashion anymore, and this isn't good enough
It's not cool enough any or all this furniture was in style for two weeks, and now it's not anymore
I need something different. So you need to find how to move away from that and how to make things last
I hope you were able to at least take away one thing from this video
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experience and then journey with minimalism but for now
I hope all you guys are doing really really well, and I'll catch you in my next video. Bye