First difficult stage to overcome on my minimalist journey was to clear out our garage which is full of valuable yet unwanted stuff. Until now I have not been able to bring myself to release these possessions as my old mindset kept telling me "I am going to need these items one day" constantly like a devil on my shoulder!
We have accumulated so much stuff through years of consumerism that we cannot even enter our garage.
This is the point where I have to be honest and admit I'm struggling with this step, selling / giving stuff away is harder than I thought it would be. I managed to get over it as although it has cost us a small fortune to fill this garage, 90% is now just clutter and proof that the way we were living was not a sustainable lifestyle.
So we decided as a family we would band together and sort through this mountain of stuff and attend local car boot sales until it was all gone.
This is a great experience for me and my 7 year-old boy who really enjoyed selling his old unwanted stuff, so he could save up for what he really wants. There were moments when we were selling items of value for half of what we believed they were worth, that I wanted to just put the items back in the car! I just kept telling myself, have I used it in the last 60 days and will I need it in the next 60 days? if both answers were no, It went to it's new owner.
Now we are nowhere near selling all our stuff, however we have made a good start and more importantly we are entering this journey together as a family, spending the time together was really nice. No distractions apart from the keen customers purchasing our stuff.
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