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Dear Santa: Please Don't Bring Me Any More Stuff, I Don't Need It
How to clear out the clutter and get back to the basics
By Dave Hakkens - Dec 16, 2015
For some reason my house is full of stuff. Not even cool or useful things, just redundant stuff that I don't need or ever use. And yet for some reason I hold on to it. It's easier in the moment to just quickly stash things in a box and then squeeze those boxes into a closet—the perfect place to forget about their existence. At some point I realized that if I didn't do something about it, I'd end up carrying all this stuff around for...the rest of my life?! And so I set out to clean up my life and made a short film of the process. Since I never, ever want to do this again, I created a Buying Guide to help me make better decisions the next time I want to purchase something new. If you could use some help with it as well, download and print one for yourself!
I'd love to hear from you—have any of you embarked on a similar purging mission lately?
This story originally appeared on Story Hopper, a collection of design stories worth sharing squeezed into short videos.
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After traveling for a week with only a 35 liter backpack (admitedly, sleeping in hotels and hostels so not completely without outside help), I asked myself "why do I have a appartment full of stuff when all I need to live takes up 35L of space?". I still have a appartment full of stuff, but I've cleared out a lot of space since then.
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I really like this idea - I have way too much 'stuff',
I think it would be difficult to do this in the long run, but definitely worthwhile!!Report as spam
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