Minimalist life │ vigilance! These five traps always make your minimalism unsustainable!

Lead: Do you feel that you have been minimalist for a long time, but life is still as messy as before? ! I've been away for half a year, and I still buy what I want. I worry about what to wear every day. I throw things away and buy them back. Can't tear down the endless express delivery and fill up the newly cleaned house? !

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The beginning of minimalist life is actually quite simple, but it is not easy to continue. If you put your energy into the wrong place, your efforts will not be rewarded.

Summing up the minimalist experience in the past year, I found that these five traps are very easy to fall short, so we must be vigilant!

Many people start with minimalism and then uninstall all their mobile phones, such as Taobao and JD.COM, as if they don't need to buy anything in the future ...?

Some people, with ten couriers and three take-out boxes every day, directly announced that they would enter the "zero garbage life" challenge. ...

The extremes meet, and the stronger you are, the easier it is to die.

In city life, you can't live without shopping, and e-commerce can meet your needs more comprehensively. In less than half a month, you will find shopping software on your mobile phone again.

And those "zero garbage lives" need very strong spirit and leisure time to complete. It's easy to persist for two or three days, but it's impossible for a minimalist to persist for 200 or 300 days. Even if you are lucky enough to persist for 300 days, "Amnesty" will often revive all your squeezed desires and carry out crazy "compensation behavior". The arduous persistence before turned into a big joke in an instant.

Formalism is indispensable in life, but unnecessary formalism can be less. If you give yourself too much burden, you can't focus on more important things.

It can be said that all restrictions are the opposite of minimalism. Mistakenly regard "no attitude towards life" as the life experience of an ascetic, then your minimalism can only be an experience.

Being busy sticking to your own rules every day consumes all your energy, which brings a lot of inconvenience to life and completely violates the original intention of "minimalism means living without burden"

The purpose of minimalism is to live more actively and easily, and the minimalism of the mind is the ultimate destination.

The principle of minimalism is: get rid of the unnecessary and keep the beauty around you.

The more time you spend on things you want to give up, the less happiness you get from minimalism.

Although minimalism begins with separation, it is not limited to "separation".

Waste time in the tangle of "do you want to buy XX" and "do you want to throw XX"

Think that the more multipoles you throw, the more successful Jane will be.

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"Do you want to throw it?" Now that you don't think it should stay in your home, you will only get more and more uneasy. Even if I keep it, I won't use it. Sell if it's expensive, throw it away if it's cheap.

Since you asked "Do you want to buy", it means that what you want to buy is not necessary for your life. As a minimalist, please keep in mind the trouble of "don't add objects unless necessary"

The extreme view that "all my possessions are only 50" and "my home is empty" is not suitable for us in the process of minimalism.

It takes a lot of time to calculate the number of items, and it is easy to stimulate your competitive psychology. Minimalism does not mean that whoever has less will win, and there is no need to compare with others. It's good that your life is convenient and refreshing enough.

In the choice of goods, a better way is to look at yourself, find out your own style, decide the route you want to take, and then make a list of the items you need, the more detailed the better (quality is more important than weight), so that you can leave what you need, while others, even if you stay, are useless and should naturally be discarded.

After many people start minimalism, the first step must be to organize things. Many things that you are unwilling to throw away can be sold on second-hand platforms.

However, on the way to selling, we should also be vigilant and save energy.

Second-hand things really can't be sold at your ideal price. When buying second-hand, it is obviously to spend less money to buy better ones. It's the same for everyone.

Even clothes that haven't removed the tag, shoes that have never stepped on the floor, can still be sold for very little money. It takes too much time and energy to pull or return for a few dollars, which is not worth the candle.

There are still some things that need to be thrown away, which is often a pity, so I deliberately recorded them one by one.

Some people are waiting to break the record every day for the achievement of "one room a day".

You don't need anything anymore. It is nothing more than wasting time and energy and adding a lot of burden to yourself. When you spend your energy on recording these old things, you not only distract your minimalist concentration, but also spend your time on other beautiful things.

Selling things is really too much trouble. One or two troublesome things will make you more and more stressed about minimalism, and your mind scattered on old things will make it easier for you to forget the real purpose of minimalism and give up.

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"Buy the best you can" and "Buy new ones instead of old ones" are also regarded as the Bible by many people in minimalist circles. In the name of "buy the best things without wasting", I bought a bunch of things beyond my ability and increased my debt. Is this really minimalism?

I wanted to learn photography the year before last, and I was entangled in buying a camera for a long time, so I fully understood the influence of these words, but I still didn't achieve the desired result after a thousand choices. Later, I learned that a novice like me can't take any good photos even with a Leica. The key point is not the camera at all.

Minimalism ≠ Perfectionism

Be wary of recommending items such as "Ten Good Things to Improve Minimalist Life Experience". Come on, this is totally consumerist marketing in the guise of minimalism!

Everyone knows that minimalism is not simply about saving money, but for a better life, but minimalism is not perfectionism, nor is it an excuse for you to throw away old things and replace them with new ones. Which item you bought home before was not a so-called "treasure to improve the quality of life", but how did you take it home and get dusty?

Make good use of existing items and replace or throw them away when they are not needed. This is the right way to keep things simple.

Minimalism is gradually maturing, and this process is not fast.

Your taste will not be improved because you are a minimalist from the beginning. What you buy at first is likely to become out of line with your aesthetics after a period of time, and then a new round of replacement will begin. ...

Do not use minimalism as an excuse. Buy buy buys it.

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Some minimalist er found that their busy daily life became very empty after being thrown away and deleted at the beginning, and they didn't know how to use the saved time. They began to feel bored and meaningless, so they gave up minimalism.

We are minimalist in order to let ourselves have more time and energy to pay attention to beautiful things, instead of making life boring.

What do I spend so much time doing after minimalism? Of course, I use it to do what I like.

Watching variety shows and chasing dramas is also a kind of life. Why do you exercise every day and study every day? There is nothing wrong with relaxing.

Or find a skill that you really wanted to learn before but didn't have time to learn, and start slowly, and you will find that there won't be too much time.

Remember, understand that life is your own, and no model can override you.

The starting point is always whether you really like it or not. If you really need it, you can adjust your methods after clarifying your purpose and let minimalism continue to serve your life.

Don't follow blindly! Don't follow blindly! Don't follow blindly!

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