Taking the 30 day Minimalist Challege, with Charlie Grimes

Recently, my wife Wendy and I watched a Netflix documentary called the Minimalists. It’s the story of American authors, podcasters, filmmakers, and public speakers Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus, who promote a minimalist lifestyle. It’s an intriguing story of realizing that “stuff” really had dominated our society and our lives. For those of you that know me personally, I would actually consider myself to be pretty simple and minimalist-- we live in a modest house here in the city of Canton, OH, I haven’t really ever earned a ton of money in my life, but Wendy and I have saved and had a budget plan which she executes so well for us--I guess I have however, have quite a few hobbies in my life also-- activities and things that I’ve wanted to learn and this has actually caused some “accumulation”. I’m pretty sentimental also-- so I tend to save things. Wendy will tell you I save weird things, like plastic containers, or bicycle parts-- or pieces of wood to possibly use on another home improvement project. Without getting too much into the storyline, I want you to know that the take-a-way we had from the show was a 30-day challenge to reduce the number of “things” we possess. Each day in the month of January, we donated or threw away the number of things that corresponded with the day of the month. (I actually was able to do more than that some days!) The total at the end of the month was to be 500 things! Wow, although it seems like a lot-- we still have quite of bit to go-- so we’ll probably be clearing out more things. But here are some of my personal reflections on this recent experience, because I believe it is indeed a very good practice-- and I would highly recommend that you consider it as well.

https://www.theminimalists.com/

https://www.becomingminimalist.com/creative-ways-to-declutter/

MINIMALISM IS Simply OWNING FEWER POSSESSIONS.

Minimalism has given me FREEDOM FROM THE PASSION TO POSSESS.

IT IS FREEDOM FROM MODERN “Rat-race”.

IT helps me to live “congruently”-- in line with my beliefs and values.

IT IS COUNTER-CULTURAL.

IT Starts EXTERNAL, BUT moves to the INTERNAL.

IT IS COMPLETELY ACHIEVABLE.

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