Amen! Amen! Amen!!!! I’m moving out of a 2BRD 2BA in Atlanta to a smaller city to save on rent. I sold EVERYTHING and have cash instead of stuff. I’m so free!!!!!!

So true. One should teach this in school.

My best times playing with my kids, my dogs & working the garden. Better than a vacation.

@@AnnaSzabowhat do you have now?

Yes! This outlook has served me well also.

Is that you Dave Ramsey?

may i ask where you found that type of work online? I have looked at a few sites but cannot find a real opportunity to do this

That's inspiring and brave

I want to do that but have no clue how to start

Wishing you joy. Love from India.

Road Runner road runner start by just researching what does it cost to rent an air b&b. Talk to some who do it. It's probably moe of a time commitment than you would think. Downsize and sell all you can. Take courses in running a business. Hire a lawyer, agent who deals with business abroad. Go to Spain and check things out.🙂

ANDY WRIGHT how did you start it? How did you get rid of stuff?! I need help I could just walk out of my house and leave it all behind but there’s my husband... Please give me some ideas!!!

ANDY WRIGHT Was it difficult for you? Any tips? Tia!

ANDY WRIGHT controlled clutter for bartering in hard times.

Simply Julie I hope you gave it to the homeless shelters.

yes, i am going through 'its still too much' and i am down to 20 items and i keep on wanting to get rid of more

free from what?

Yes agree, free from stuff that weighs us down and never satisfies our heart’s emptiness. We all NEED God.

Dana Lissy You’re very correct. Where you from? I’d like to know you.

Jeanne Sjoberg God is the greatest .

That is not true of everyone.

I don't think we buy to impress but we buy because we like what we see and we want it....that simple. Stuff owns us......

Fight Club

Well said.

George Carlin stuff look it up

exactly

Truelily7, I can so identify with what you are saying. It is much easier to downsize and let things go when you have the means to replace/re-buy those items if and when that becomes necessary. I am in the same boat with you and am paddling furiously just to stay afloat. Wishing you all the best.

I can relate to what Youre saying. People have no idea what its like to be poor.

Your correct. The rich hanging out on the other side of the tracks for a while is as old as time. They can go back any time they want and that makes all the difference. Many do when "slumming" loses its fun factor. Then they can tell of their "Adventure" at the cocktail parties and get points for knowing the struggles of the downtrodden.

I was thinking the same. I was born with a life-threatening illness and struggle with health care and, of course, poor health. I did downsize and live simply. Not because I needed a change, but because it is the only way. I'm 55 with over 8.5 years of higher education and I'm required (by law) to disclose my illness prior to being hired. I can also be denied employment because of my illness and have been. My illness is neither contagious nor does it affect my ability to do my job. Denied disability. So I've lived in poverty the majority of my life as well. Still interested in hearing others stories.

I absolutely see your point here and I think it really is something we need to take into consideration when we discuss all these “downsizing” “living with less”ideas. Most discussions like these never taken in to consideration people who are poor financially and don’t have the means to rebuy. I believe you should have possessions and take great pride in them but they shouldn’t control you life. At least to me as someone who has grown up in a middle-low class home this mindset seems particularly aimed toward middle and upper class for a reason. The amount of stuff people accumulate when they have excess money is insane, and to me humans simply don’t need that much to survive. I can’t say I’m ever going to be a minimalist but there is definitely some truth is having less just because you don’t want to be wasteful and have things you never use. To have food, clothes, makeup, cds or whatever in mass amounts is bad for the environment and not a necessity if you never use them. That is the main reason why I am watching this video. As nice as it seems living in a mansion doesn’t make sense for one person middle upper class (myself included) just need to think more consciously about what we buy. Materialism isn’t everything and contributes to pollution and urban sprawl among other things. Sorry for the long post, I never post comments especially ones this lengthy. Just thought you brought up an interesting point and wanted to add on. Thanks 🐞🐞🐞 edit: I’m not saying I agree with everything she says here but she makes a few good points

Kevin Loving Exactly!! Next time you see something you think you absolutely have to have think about that. Or I’ll pretend I’m in a museum where I can only look and not touch.

Not if you like your things, but in a detached way, meaning you don't feel you can't do without them.

Although most advertisers while use the concept of “it will make you better than your peers “ , it’s a delusion that most of us will not admit to .but applies none the less .

Kevin Loving I like caps lock too

Ooo I’ve never heard this but I like.✊🏼

I'm thinking of doing the same by swopping me 3-bedroom house for a 1-bedroom flat so I can work less and have more time and freedom to try other things.

@@spenser9908 How did it go?

Dana Dobson love your first name Miss Dana

Dana Dobson True. Where you from?

How did it go? Are you still in transition?

Amen to that sister 👍 Sometimes perspective of bigger space is not necessarily more or less stuff. But for more family members and friends who visit & to have enough space for all of us to commune, in particular aging parents and uncles, who as you said is typical of our Asian culture.

I agree. My goal is to get rid of the clutter so I can enjoy the space more.

Same here. We are of a Mediterranean culture and we like hanging out with family - close and extended and also love having friends. My aging parents are included in all. We love that and of course space helps.

A Crazy Dream , So have I! I donate, consign, and give away. What a great feeling. . .decluttering and helping others too.

@@greyferguson9319 since when throwing your work away is a great feeling?

@@Julie-ev5js One can't right past wrongs. yes. well said. problem with giveaways is that they usually land on landfields. it would be wise to use something until it becomes unusable. this is the only way of saving the planet.

love is a fairy tale and experiences e.g. trips are overpriced.

Kim Hazelwood You very correct. Where you from? I’d like to know you.

Oh amen,couldn't have said it better my self.

Tiny Home Georgia, Amen!!!! You are soooo telling the truth.

Tiny Home Georgia "AMEN" again from CASPER your friendly ghost writer ((>:)

Come to Uganda, im already to take you around

I agree with you.

I'm sure her boy is taking care of the villagers😇

Trisha Chamberlain , My husband found the same thing when he went to Guatemala on a missions trip, and son also when he went to the Dominican republic. People they met didn't have much, but appreciated what they did have.

Mike Turco it’s amazing what a trained mine can do every night watching the box ! I’m finding out there’s living going on outside the box🙂 I’m very proud of you as a person for taking that step you did . It must of been so refreshing in your mind

Wonderful stuff. Stay blessed.

sounds like you want some approval i guess?

priyanka sarvaiya So great for you!! 💗 Work in progress for me! xo

small footprint I've been on my minimalizim journey for about 6 months now. Over & over I purge & re-purge. It helps to designate a container of sorts for a particular group of items. If it doesn't fit in that container, either something already in it has to go or the thing I'm trying to fit in there has to go. We won't even get into how many various robes I had. I found a 3 hook shelf. I now have 3 robes. A terry cloth bath robe, a fleece house robe, & a satin summer house coat for say answering the door when I'm not decent. Still a lil excessive. But. I love & use them all of them. And they all have a home on that hook shelf.

small footprint

Think I'm next

yes clutter +stuff weighs you down and holds you back. accumulated junk really, worthless stuff really. I need to declutter. How do we get it anyway...... stuff...... What we need, live, travel.

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Sounds like a good plan!

Good plan. Mine is the same. Have one small home base in Michigan. Rent one part of the year in different warm parts of the country during the winter.

Amen!

I just read this and I know it’s been 3 years, but I’m glad you took the memories of happy family days. Those are all that matter, in the end

My Tiny Retirement Take it a day at a time and it will happen.

My Tiny Retirement Put things you really struggle with that is excess, in a box. Leave it there for 1 month. Have someone else help you with the next part. Without you watching, tell them what's in that box you must absolutely keep. They take those things out & give them back to you. The rest you forgot about, they donate for you. :)

My Tiny Retirement we did it, and started traveling 6 months ago with 2 carry ons, because travel makes up happy. It is liberating!

That's part of our plan. Our tiny house (our cabin) in Maine will be where we "summer" and we're hoping to travel around the south during the winters. I haven't decided yet if I'm excited or scared to death. But I know it's the answer for us. But shedding the belongings, wow. It's cathartic.

Mama Bear good advice 👍🏼

nasreen pardiwala totally!

Mother Muse I agree 😌 tx for your words

Thanks for your words 🤗 I agree

starwish246 in those other cultures they have very little and they still give and give the shirts off their backs. I don’t have much and if I can and also when someone approaches me for help I help it get the things that people need. I see it as if I was in a bind I would hope someone would assist me. If we all put ourselves in other people’s shoes and have empathy than we all have a understanding of what struggles each of us have.

Yeah but even with that, poverty brings a lot of social problems too: poor education, unwanted children from very young mothers, delinqincy, you cannot think is a wonderful world where there is less of everything

Chic Francisco .Nice to see you here ! I admire your sewings and teaching s!

I agree handsome

Tracie O'Grady unless it’s head then it’s good either way

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