< The Pursuit of Less: Anyone Else on This Journey?
Hey ~aftergibson,
This is something that is definitely a challenge for me. I feel like I want to simplify, but too often find myself drawn to "shiny new things". But just as you said, those things go unused.
One thing that has been helping me is finding new hobbies, and leveraging the public library. The library let's me act on the impulse of wanting new things (books/movies/video games), without the commitment of having more stuff. I recently borrowed the Silo series by Hugh Howey, the new Top Gun movie, and the new God of War game. I get the joy of a "new thing", but they go right back to the library when the appeal has worn off.
Our community has a yard sale coming up in a couple weeks, I'm hoping I can use that as another win, a way to get rid of some stuff that still sits in moving boxes, half a year after we moved.
Now all that said, I still have moments of weakness haha. I just impulse bought an old Palm Pilot, and I've been fighting myself hard over buying an e-bike. Stuff I truly don't need, I have a bike and honestly the Palm will be fun to play with for a few months, but I'll be shocked if I use it after that.
But I am getting better at reducing my impulsive buying, and that's worth something.
Alex, I think you and I have similar areas of weakness. I have two old Psion 5MXs I loved using, some old DOS laptops and an old Powerbook running an obscure variant of AmigaOS I had some fun with them but nothing I've used in years now.
The impulse buying is killer, I like decluttering but I also like buying stuff, particular during moments or periods in life are crazy stressful. I feel I'm coming out of that period, looking around and asking "Who the hell bought all this crap I need to deal with".