Only the Essentials


I did it.  I threw out lotion and perfume bottles.

It’s something I’ve never done before.  I could never bring myself to waste, and in that incapability to throw away, I had more than I ever needed.  Today was the day.  I opened a trash bag and went to town on my bedroom.  Magazines, lotions, clothes. I’m in a purge fest.

I’m cleansing, saying goodbye, getting rid of excess.

It feels almost like an urgency to only carry the essentials.

  1. #1 by Emily on August 8, 2012 - 9:45 am

    have you heard of the book ‘the power of less’? i haven’t read it but i have heard good things. it is written from the perspective of an ultra-capitalist white business man, so i’m suspicious, but also intrigued by the premise.

    i love this post and it has inspired me. i have been trying over the past year or so to follow the steps in ‘vagabonding’ for keeping your life simple: 1. stop accumulating new stuff, 2. simplify by getting rid of unnecessary stuff, and 3. i forget what the third one is, ha. it has helped to look at the reasons/triggers i buy things i don’t truly need. it’s usually boredom, anxiety, a need to assert my identity. i am trying to remember that i am not defined by the things i own or don’t own.

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