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Not Buying These Things Anymore Changed My Life
And a step by step process on how you can transform your own life by adopting minimalism
“Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.” -Will Rogers, 1879
My journey into the trend of minimalism started on an entirely different note. 2020 had been a very complicated year for me. It was not at all constant and I had soared, buoyed by my success in academics, and I had also been in the deepest rungs of despair, hopeless and bored with life.
I always place importance on letting myself mope. I believe in the balance — that you need to mope sometimes and then, you need to get off your ass. And so, after a couple of months of doing exactly that, I gave myself a pep talk one early morning and got up from the bed.
I started with washing my bedsheets and then turning towards the elephant in the room — my massive bookshelves and the dust that had accumulated on the books. And it has been a journey since then. After a year of practising minimalism in most aspects of my life, I was blown away by how much of a difference it had made. I took the reins and decided my life needed a…
