[QUOTE=early morning;316676]Those are great quotes, tms. I like stuff. Mostly OLD stuff. I am not a minimalist, and I'm not going to apologize for it.
Who is asking you to apologize? Could it be that you are committing civil disobedience against a law that does not exist?
I don't know a single minimalist who does this.
Every minimalist I know would agree with you on this point.
Then I strongly suggest you keep your stuff.
How is calling/comparing someone to a hairshirt wearer or a fetishist not being judgmental? Could you be spouting off your own form of elitism? Seriously asking...
What you call a fetish or hairshirting might be someone's fun hobby or path to spiritual enlightenment/transcendence, isn't that very possible? Why dump on it?
I indirectly know an ultra-endurance athlete. She meticulously tracks her strides, her calories, her fluid intake, etc.
Could this be some lifestyle fetish? Perhaps. Or it could be the hobby she loves, the hobby that thrills her. Right?
Some people enjoy curating their stamp collection. Some people like rearranging those little ceramic figurines. I’m not sure if a minimalist is curating all their stuff or all the stuff they don’t have. I’m not sure if they do it for esthetic reasons, high principle or necessity. But if they don’t judge my garage, I won’t judge their artfully empty spaces.
It’s one of those life is too short things.
Normally I would say: "You made the assessment; the burden of proof is on you."
But I will humor you.
I am a minimalist for these reasons, in my own words:
-I find it aesthetically pleasing
-I like to focus my mind (on projects of various sorts)
-I want to save money, and minimalism is an easy way for me to do that
-It is a fun way to challenge myself
-It makes moving easy
-I don't feel like I need much (so why bother having much?)
-It makes cleaning my living space quick and easy
-Minimalism gives me a sense of freedom and a nice little uptick in my overall happiness too
-My style of minimalism shrinks my ecological footprint
There are more reasons, but you get the picture.
As Cicero said, “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.”
I did a quick search for posts by Ultralight that included the word minimalism. That search resulted in 4 pages (100 items). fwiw- I also did a search on minimalist and that returned 5 pages. Because I am lazy, I just looked at the first page of results. 19 of the 25 listed were directly about minimalism.Give me an example, if you can, of how I have asked the same or similar questions over and over.
Some titles:
Making minimalism a deal breaker?
Coworker approached me about minimalism!
Are you or are you not a minimalist?
The 6 Types of Minimalists...
Article: They don’t need much and like it that way
Tough question about going "extreme" with minimalism/simple living
1,000 things?
Maybe to you these are all different topics, but to many of us, it sounds like much the same.
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