I don't want anything.

[Kiwi]

The older I get, the less I seem to want, materially.
I am currently packing to move and the boxes for donation is almost 2-1 with the stuff I just don't want anymore.

I just don't want it, books, cooking stuff, clothing, shoes, mementos, furniture. It's almost all going. I condensed 5 boxes of mementos into a 1/2 box. Out of my two huge bookcases only about a 10th of the books are coming with me.
I boxed up most of my kitchen into 10 boxes, 4 of them are being donated.

I just don't want it, any of it. I just want everything empty and bare and calm. I don't want anything on show, nothing on surfaces. It makes me so much calmer to see plainness and have no clutter. I love it.

[AccountingDrone]

KIHYS?
<usually what someone in an MMORPG asks someone in their guild that is about to ragequit ... can I have your stuff .. >

Good for you - if that is what it takes for mental calmness, go for it. It used to be that people lived with not much more than they could haul around in a couple of trunks and a suitcase, back in the day when people lived in apartments and rooming houses.

The minimalist dweller is more or less what the 'tiny house' movement is about, minimize ones footprint on the earth by restricting the amount one owns so you don't need large and elaborate homes. I see nothing wrong with it at all - I have started reducing what I own by slowly moving all my reading into ebook form, with about a bankers box full of actual books that have sentimental value. All the family pictures are getting scanned in as well. The stuff that can be positively identified will get tossed online so a google search in the future can find them, many people are into geneology and in the future may welcome pictures.

[Javarod]

You too? I've been there for years, i could nearly fit everything i have in a broom closet. Ok, i'm over selling it a bit, but seriously, the only must have beyond the obvious (clothes since society is so square ), is my cookbooks and cooking gear.

[purple]

I had my stuff in storage for a couple of years. Started unpacking it this year and gave over 3 boxes away, that was only the things I knew where nice enough to use as prizes.

Have another 2 boxes of things to throw on a free site/ donate to a charity shop.

That was just from sorting what was in storage, I move into my own place next week (finally) and I estimate I won't want half my stuff. I realized the other day that I have a full wadrobe and an overflowing dresser but realistically I live in 5 outfits.

[Sliceanddice]

im 27 and i can honestly say ive never had more possessions that i could easily fit into a 10x10 bed room without feeling cramped. and most of those are books.

we are moving some of my stuff into storage as a staging move so i can have more room to move around the big stuff i own. but even then my belongings have a lot of space. heck im getting rid of my chiffarobe today, off to charity it goes, and the stand ive been using for my tv is getting the boot too. meaning my possions have droped to 2 bookcases, on chair one desk one bed one dresser one night stand and one folding table + plus geeky stuff and books.

and ive already started getting rid of books.

[Greenday]

I've done the same. Moved into my first apartment last December. Barely took anything with me.

[Kiwi]

The rooms I have cleared out are soooooo much easier to clean, it used to just be everything everywhere and now it's just clear surfaces.

The rooms I haven't done are so much busier and cluttered I just can't wait until it's empty.

[MoonCat]

I love having lots of space around me. I would toss a lot of our junk but it's not all mine to toss. I could have a good clear-out, though. We were talking about that this week, just have to really knuckle down and do it.

[Sliceanddice]

I love having lots of space around me. I would toss a lot of our junk but it's not all mine to toss. I could have a good clear-out, though. We were talking about that this week, just have to really knuckle down and do it.

total opposite here i love having those closed cluttered comfortable eccentric spaces full of leather and wooden furniture and books.......

i love to many pillows cloth draped every where and bronze and copper details....

i like crowded spaces

[Jester]

Still a pack rat. I have enough stuff to fit nicely into a two bedroom apartment.

The problem is, I don't have my own two bedroom apartment. I share a three bedroom apartment with two other people, so I have too much stuff and not enough room.

I look forward to the time I leave Key West, move back to Phoenix, and take up residence in the aforementioned two bedroom apartment by myself. It will be my first solo residence since I lived in the dorms in the late 80s.

And I am so ready to live alone. Sadly, it's not financially feasible for me to do so here in KW, as the place is expensive. How expensive?, you ask. Well, a recent study/poll whatever put KW as the fifth most expensive place to live in the country, ahead of NYC, San Fran, and LA. That's how expensive.