Embracing MINIMALISM

It is going to be a year full of changes with a lot less STUFF. Our family is full on embracing the minimalist lifestyle. This means having a lot less stuff to fill up your home and using that emptiness to create peace and order, not to mention saving headaches and money.

Also with our pending move on the horizon, the idea of packing up less possessions is a dream.

I think I was born to be a minimalist. Looking back at my college years I would take the very bare essentials with me. Upon returning home to a room full of stuff I would wonder why I needed any of it since I had just made it an entire year without it.

Of course the usual reasons force a person to hold onto to stuff. There is guilt, worry, sentiment and the big question of "what if?"  We are letting go of all of it and thinking practically. I am over joyed to say Tyler is totally on board. He has been so amazing and supportive and gladly share things he think I should get rid of.

The point here is that life is short and I want to spend it gaining experiences with my family not stuff. This embracing of minimalism has had the unexpected side effect of helping us save money. We have always had trouble sticking with a budget. We tell ourselves, okay we need to stop spending money!! And then we go to the store and buy more things thinking we need them. Now we look at it from a different angle. We don't need to bring more stuff into our home to clutter it up and BAM we dont spend the money. We even walked around Target while our oil was getting changed and did not buy ANYTHING WHAAAt????

I am hoping we are also passing along a lesson to our boys that they don't need all these things to be happy. All we take with us is our memories so we better make some great ones!!