Challenge Days 9,10,11 and 12

Hey all! Sorry for my complete absence the last few days, I came home on break this past friday and it’s kind of been a whirlwind of busy. But I have been clearing things out. I’ve gotten rid of mostly clothes while I’ve been here. I have a lot of clothes sitting in drawers at my house that I haven’t touched for months, so they’re gone now. I’m going to take them to a consignment store in the next few days and see if I can’t get a few dollars for them. Other than clothes, I’ve mostly just gotten rid of a ton of random junk. Odd bits of yarn, some old dishes, some shoes, and a few other bits and pieces.

I think tomorrow I’m gonna tackle the stuff at my dad’s house, which is where the majority of my home junk is so that’ll be an all day process. I’ll probably just clear it all and add it up for the next couple of days.

I have to say, getting rid of all this stuff is making me feel a lot lighter and happier.

Challenge Day 8

Today, I picked my items while I was packing to leave for break tomorrow and I found a lot of things under my bed to toss.

Today I’m getting rid of 1. an old really shitty painting I did  2. some random buttons I bought for a project I never made 3. some tea I bought when I was sick and then never finished 4. a random container 5. a ton of lipsticks I never wear 6. also some bronzers/eyeshadows I don’t wear either  7. a bunch of shopping bags I was hoarding and 8. this weird diy thing I acquired somehow that I didn’t even know what it was.

Challenge Day 7

One week down. I feel like I haven’t gotten rid of anything. But I’ve rid myself of 28 things. They haven’t been big things, which might contribute to my feeling like I haven’t gotten rid of anything, but also the things I’ve thrown out have been things I never use, so that’s probably contributing as well. I’ve been trying not to hit my closet but I ended up in there tonight. Today I’m getting rid of…

a pullover I bought from goodwill that ended up being too long for my liking, two beanies, a scarf I made that’s to short to use, a magazine I was holding on to for some reason, a tank top that’s too big and a flannel that’s too big as well.

Home After School

I think for a while I’m going to do a sort of mini series where I talk about different reasons that are inspiring me to change my lifestyle. This is the first in a line of reasons that I’m planning on talking about every day. Let’s get into it!

A very big reason for my wanting to become a minimalist, which I talked about already in this post, is the fact that I want to go tiny. My dream home is a custom tiny house, no lie. There’s something so appealing about tiny houses to me. Of course they’re adorable, but they’re also totally customizable which is a big appeal to me. I love the fact that I can have control of what exactly my house will look like. Anthor big reason I love tiny homes is because they’re very affordable. You can do a complete build for a few thousand dollars and seeing as I’m already in a heap of student loan debt and still have two years of school left, the cheaper a living arrangement the better. Plus, it’s not like renting a place, where I’ll never own whatever I’m renting, I’ll actually own my tiny house and that’s a huge bonus to me. Going tiny, of course, means having less space to put things, so minimalism and the tiny house vement go hand in hand. Now, there are people who aren’t minimalists who live tiny, but I think minimalism is definitely a huge help when you live in a tiny house. And since I absolutely plan on buying a tiny house I figure why not take the plunge into minimalism now and then when I go tiny the transition will be a lot easier.

Another thing that’s kind of related to home, but also kind of to travel is that I, for some reason, am driven to be able to fit everything I own into my car with room to spare. Mind you, I drive a ford explorer, so it’s not a small vehicle, but it certainly isn’t a huge vehicle. Ideally I’d love to be able to fit all my belongings into a small car like a neon but that’s quite a ways down the road.

Challenge Day 6

Today I’m getting rid of a travel mug, a paper sculpture I made last semester, three books (they aren’t mine and I’m finally going to give them back) and a notebook i made but never used.

Some Changes. Yes, Already.

I’m a decidedly indecisive person by nature. I think I’m going to be making some posts related more to health and beauty things on this blog as well. I’m going to try and keep my content mostly focused on lifestyle, minimalism in particular, but to ensure longevity of my page, I think adding posts of this nature will help. I mean, eventually, I’ll accomplish my goal of living a fully minimalistic lifestyle and once I’m there, I think I’ll need some other topics to talk about, so I’m just starting now because why not?! So yea, keep an eye out for some fun beauty and health related content in the very near future! 

Challenge Day 5

I don’t really have that many non-essential things at school with me and I’m finding this to be increasingly difficult and it’s only day five!! So I’m looking forward to being home on spring break next week where I’ll have a lot of things to get rid of. But, for today…

I’m getting rid of a pile of random dust masks, a bottle of hairspray that I don’t use, a pair of shoes that are super cute but I never wear, a foundation I don’t wear and a backpack.

Spring Cleaning

Happy first day of spring! I honestly didn’t realize that I started my minimalism challenge so close to the spring equinox, it’s fitting I suppose. Cleaning out my life of useless junk, spring cleaning… It’s a happy coincidence. And today, I think I’m going to talk about cleaning out your life in general.

I think we all carry a lot of junk around in our lives. Of course we all have things junk, physical items that we accumulate, shoes, clothes, electronics.. the stuff everyone thinks about when you say the word “junk”, but we have other junk too. Shitty people who drag us down, crap relationships that don’t raise us up or make us happy, addictions and other vices that aren’t healthy for us either physically or mentally. “Junk” can cover a lot of bases and these are just a few things that it can mean in relation to our lives. While it’s nice and sometimes crucial to clean the physical junk up and out of our lives, I think it’s even more important to clean out our lives of all the negative things that aren’t posessions.

I have lots of life junk and I’m working on clearing it out while I’m cleaning out the unnecessary possessions in my life. I have crappy relationships that I for some reason can’t seem to end, so I’m working on getting out of those because I hate feeling like shit because of some other person. I also have my fair share of unhealthy vices that I know I need to work on. Some of them are in the process and others I haven’r fully come to terms with the fact that I need to stop, but it’s all a process. I don’t think I’ll ever be done working on things like this because life changes, things change and people come and go from our lives. It’s all a matter of continuous monitering and making sure that the things in your life, all of them, even the people, bring you absolute happiness.

So while you’re doing your spring house cleaning, take the time to evaluate your life and maybe do some spring cleaning for your soul as well.

Challenge Day 4

Today, I’m going to get rid of 2 head scarves I no longer wear, another record I don’t listen too and an eye shadow palette I never I use. 

Challenge Day 3

Get rid of three items. 

Today, I’m getting rid of a mug, because I have a million, a sloth shaped tea diffuser and a record that I bought only because I liked the album art and that I’ve listened to once.