Becoming Minimalist – Month One of Minimalism

I have been getting rid of the clutter in my house for the last month.  When I have some extra time I have been reading books, and watching documentaries, and watching people on youtube all talk about minimalism, and how great it is.  It seems among some people MINIMALISM is a movement and current trend.  I just happened to find out about it from watching the documentary on Netflix.

For us this will be a way of life because I can’t imagine wasting anymore money in the dollar section of Target buying junk that we end up throwing away a week later.

I wouldn’t call myself a minimalist because my house is still stuffed full of junk and I have doubles of a lot of kitchen tools, but at least now I don’t have 5 of every kitchen tool haha.

After a month of going through every room in my house and only keeping the stuff we use and love I can see a huge difference.  My biggest goal is not bringing any new junk/stuff into the house unless we really NEED it.  This isn’t hard for me, but I never realized how much shopping or looking around stores I use to do. Going to target use to be somewhere I would go just to get out of the heat and look around and be entertained for a short time.  Well now I don’t see the point of going there unless I really Need something, so I have had to come up with other forms of entertainment.

We have gone to the library twice and checked out books and walked around.  We have done a lot more playing in the front yard and lots of time going through the stuff in the house.

Overall I feel like my house looks a lot cleaner.  I know my house isn’t actually “cleaner” but because there isn’t a ton of junk on every shelf it looks like there is more room.

Looking into minimalism has caused a snow ball effect for our family.  We have watched more documentaries and learned more about health and our environment.  There have been so many changes in a short time, its incredible.  Even changing our diets!  Now we are eating so much healthier!  I have lost 4 pounds and Grant has lost 10 pounds in just a week or two.

We no longer buy plastic water bottles.  Grant use to take 4 plastic water bottles to work everyday.  Now he takes two large reusable bottles to work.  When I think about how much we were wasting it makes me sad.  That is around 1040 plastic bottles that are not going into a landfill this year.

I will do more updates on the blog as we continue to make life improvements.

Here is my first post on Minimalism.

Here are some of the documentaries we have watched.

What the Health

The True Cost

Living on One Dollar

Forks Over Knives

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