Why does it seem like life is so crazy when you have so much you can enjoy and cherish? I am a happily married mother of two with a full time job and a to do list that is never exhausted. I am a minimalist wannabe and I desperately want to find a way to organize my life so that I can spend time with my family and stop all this precious time from slipping through my fingers.
I am embarking on a new goal in my life to become a minimalist. I feel like I can have more time for important things if I can get my material possessions under control. The effort is definitely paying off. I am on a roll looking for unnecessary things around my house and tossing them out (my garage looks awful though). It's been difficult though. For example, there are a lot of things that I like the idea of having, like the chubby chefs on the sides of my oven, but they are not functional, they don't contribute anything but dust and often get buried in other junk on my counter. So off they went. It really is liberating.
In addition to taking less time to manage my possessions, I am also finding more room for my family to move around in. We have a small house so we need all the space we can get.
It also have financial benefits. Before becoming a minimalist wannabe, my family would spend out days out visiting thrift stores and toy stores and shopping. We didn't spend a lot of money, but a penny saved is a penny earned. Saying no to a $5.99 pair of shoes each Saturday adds up over a year and why spend all of that money to clutter my closet and make it harder to find the things that I actually use consistently?
Don't get me wrong, I don't ever think I will ever become a full minimalist. I won't sell my house and live in a cave or narrow my wardrobe to a pair of shorts and a tank top, but I believe something must be said about the movement and the benefit to tired working moms everywhere. Who needs all that junk anyway?
