Fwd: Less Stuff, More Freedom

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From: Michelle Schroeder-Gardner <michelle@makingsenseofcents.com>
Date: Thu, Mar 21, 2019, 8:03 AM
Subject: Less Stuff, More Freedom
To: Joao <joaoa.desilva2018@gmail.com>

Hey!

It's been a few years now since we got rid of the majority of our belongings and moved into an RV (and now boat) and back to yet another RV. Becoming a minimalist wasn't a goal at the time – it just naturally happened, necessary for the transitions...

When we sold/rented our house and moved into an RV, we had to give away a ton of our stuff so that we could start living minimally in a smaller space. Then did the reverse when we bought another house.

We gave a lot of stuff to family members, had neighbors come by and take whatever they wanted, Salvation Army came to our home to do a big pickup, we had a yard sale and posted online some of the stuff we had left over, to get some of our purchase funds back and more. We didn't sell a single thing, or very little of it was sold, unfortunately instead we gave almost all of it away. Which ends up being a tax write off at end of year beginning of next.

I know some people will think I'm crazy for not really being gun - ho about selling anything, but that's not really the point of this blog post. The point is that living with less stuff is possible. And, there is already so much waste in the world, recycling is a good thing and now that we're sailing, and RVing again, as we dock we're seeing so much of the garbage in the water – and it is truly disappointing.

Living on a sailboat or RV means living with less stuff or living a minimal lifestyle. Our boat a Catamaran is a little bigger than the RV we used to own, but it has even less storage space – we had to get rid of even more of our stuff when we switched homes.

I know living on sailboat or RV isn't the norm, but neither is living with less stuff.

When you have a traditional home you are probably used to owning more because you simply have more space to keep things. But, as time has passed, people are living in larger and larger homes and adding even more stuff. And the stuff is everywhere, 'coz in our lives we go thru about 11 homes on average.

Just think about the average home in 1950, which was less than 1,000 square feet. Fast forward to 2017, the average home size has increased to over 2,400 square feet (according to the U.S. Census Bureau).

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My thank you for your time, attention and consideration.

Here's to your abundant success!

Thanks!

Jon

%Michelle at Making Sense of Cents

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