I Got Rid of 90% of My Stuff...Here's What Happened // minimalism + letting go

My dad spent forty years collecting tools, gadgets, spare parts, and things he swore he'd use someday. After he retired, he admitted there was something comforting about owning possibilities. Then I read The Soul You Buried by Thalia Windale and found this idea that sometimes we're not protecting the object, we're protecting the story attached to it. That one hit home.

We enter this world with nothing and that’s the way we will leave. How true. I never see a hearse with a u-haul attached to it. Keep up the good work!

I think anyone making negative comments about your minimalist lifestyle are trying to find a way to justify and not face their own problems with clutter or shopping addictions. They are projecting. It’s their problem not yours. I love your channel, you keep me on track 🩷

I'm still watching the video, but the opening really stood out to me. It made me realize that I'm at a point in my life where I am also surrounded by nearly 30 years of clutter, and I don't want to live like this anymore. So I feel like I found this video at the right time ♥

Happy 10 years❣️. Thank you for making a difference by sharing your story and life💛🤲🌼

A few days ago, I swear I heard your voice when debating throwing out a purse. The strap was falling apart, but the main part was perfectly fine. I had bought a purse strap from a thrift store to add to a bag I had purchased a long time ago, but had abandoned the project. I had been debating donating it again, but I just cut off the old strap and added the new, very funky one! Now I have a one-of-a-kind purse, a purse saved from the landfill, and the abandoned project turned into something useful! I love my new-to-me purse!

Oooooo...Remembering is not the same as Regretting. Needed that.

The best thing i gained from decluttering is i now stay out of the stores unless i NEED something, no more shopping for fun.

I recall my vintage 1920s apartment on the North Side of Chicago and how small the closets were! Those folks did just fine! Thank you for your very thoughtful and helpful channel!

It’s so true in the end my sweet aunt who passed in her home. Went from being concerned about her belongings to in her final weeks not caring about a single thing Only her loved ones coming to see her. She was organized but had a lot. Wanted to get rid of her stuff. Got sick. We, my cousins and I started going through her things. Running everything by her because she was bed bound by then. Then she got to that point as stated she only wanted to visit with her friends and family. Didn’t want to see her precious items and treasures. After her passing we, cousins and I are freer to actually declutter to sell their childhood home. And it was a huge job for sure. We like you offered many times to help my sweet aunt to no avail. Two years have passed and I’m facing my beautiful mom’s home and her passing. Same tree both sisters fell from it. I have work to do. Thanks for listening/reading. 🥰

You should never get rid of this Pink Floyd's animal T-shirt though 😍!

I work for an estate sale auction company and I could make my own YouTube channel with everything I see and have learned. For one, I’m nearly 55 years old and even I think it’s strange when I go into an 85 year olds home and see all the collectibles. I think to myself, why didn’t they downsize and give things to certain people while they were still able to. It’s crazy to me and I see it all the time. Very few people actually have a will that expresses where exact items are supposed to go to specific persons. Since I’m turning 55 this year, even though I have already got rid of a lot from living in an almost 4000 square ft home to moving into an 1100 square ft apartment with garage. I’m still getting rid of stuff.

I've moved a lot in my life and ditched things many times. I'm also a minimalist and have sometimes just tossed stuff out during a "mood". Most things I cannot even remember and don't miss. But, I have messed up a few times and tossed out things I now regret. But....you can't take anything with you when you die, so I tell myself that.

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I think of clutter as visceral fat in that just as visceral fat creates inflammation and stress to the rest of the body, clutter inflames and puts stress on the rest of your life. And decluttering is like exercising to lose that excess fat you don’t need nor want.

I am about to upsize. I am moving 10 minutes away. I am decluttering 70% of my furniture and 50% of my already minimal possessions. It feels really good.

❤congratulations Marissa on a painful struggle topped by 10 years of finding freedom through minimalism leading to peace and a happier future. It’s a journey I share and I rejoice with you! ❤

I've done the same thing. On my debt free journey, I sold so much as I realised that I don't need them, I really don't. I have my self, wage, a beater car. I go to work, earn money, I have no debt zero none. Because I concentrated on paying my debt off for 7 years. I let go of nearly everything, I have 3 empty rooms, my living room sofa, TV, coffee table that's it. Bed in bedroom, clothes railing system some shelves that's it that's all I need. But I am fully debt free, I made that my number 1 goal. And saw it through, it's the best feeling in life being debt free. 👍

It’s so true that minimalism is actually normal, for the majority of human history people lived with very little…. The way we live now is actually abnormal but definitely pushed by major corporations wanting to help us part with our hard earned money .

I work in an antique shop and hear all the time about inherited clutter. Don't burden your children with a house full of clutter! One man actually said that his mother's house burnt down and he was embarrassed to say, but it was actually a gift.