Thoughts

Several months ago I reached the end of my research on minimalism and then I closed Minimal. I discovered a lot and I learned a lot, but I was also disappointed. Mostly at what people thought minimalism was.

To me minimalism is practical minimalism.

Practical minimalism means that I have what I and my family need to be happy and nothing we don’t. If we need to have 100 things or 1000 things it doesn’t matter, at this point this is what we need to be happy and functional, and to be able to do the things we love. Tomorrow we might need less to achieve the same goal, then again a year from now we might need more. It is OK.

Having 10 shirts doesn’t make less minimalist than someone having only 2. At this point of my life I need 10 shirts. Next month if I don’t need them, then I will sell them, donate them or throw them away, but right now I need them. Yes, the 10 of them. I don’t have 11, I have 10. I need 10. I won’t buy the 11th, I don’t need it.

That’s practical minimalism.

I mentioned that I was disappointed at what people thought minimalism was. This is the reason I will post thoughts and examples of what I call practical minimalism in Minimal now.
This doesn’t mean the blog is back full time. This means that I want to make a point clear. That’s all.

Having said this, the next post will be about books, more specifically minimalism and books.