What are the biggest benefits of minimalist living?
I am not a natural minimalist.
I like books. I like photos. I like things with a story. I am not interested in living in a white box with one chair and a bowl of lemons pretending I have achieved enlightenment.
But packing up my house to put everything into storage until I relocate overseas made me realise how much crap I had kept.
Not useful things. Not even things I particularly loved. Just stuff. Things shoved in cupboards. Items I had moved from one place to another. Things I kept because I had owned them for years, not because they actually mattered.
Some sentimental things stayed. My teddy bear, for example, is 55 years old. He was never going anywhere.
But a lot of other things went.
I sold things. Things were donated. I gave things away.
And honestly, it was cleansing.
The biggest benefit of minimalist living is not having less just for the sake of it. It is having less to carry, less to sort, less to clean, less to move, and less taking up space in your head.
Minimalist living does not have to mean owning nothing.
It just means being more honest about what is worth keeping.
And sometimes, when you are packing your whole life into boxes, you get very honest very quickly.
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