General Chat

Do you think you are born this way,?
How does a minimalist avoid buying something that is
beautiful,eg,glassware/ornaments/clocks/paper weights,
I think I am a minimalist with amnesia.lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I will have to discipline myself not to be tempted. :-(

I'm definatelly not a minimalist :-) I don't even try. I love all my bits and pieces around me and for me it's what makes our house a home. Having said that I don't like a cluttered house either so I think I'm somewhere in between.

I'm like you SueMaid,I too love all my bits and pieces,ornaments that the children bought when they went on school trips,but lately I feel there is too much around the house,although my home is always welcoming,I want to put things away.
I could never throw anything away,that the family have bought.
We have just decorated a bedroom, that we can have as a spare one,in case the grandchildren stay,but I am loathed to put anything else in there,other than the necessary.

My daughters friend is a minimalist,as she always says,you havent tidied up and put away then.lol!!! In a nice way though.

Trish.only way to stop buying anything is Leave your purse/wallet/cards at HOME....LOL....

Sue

Why didn't I think of that Sue...lol!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't get tempted that often I must say,since I am now retired,
I want to downsize,as the saying goes,but only with my possesions.
Hubby and I live in a large 4 bedroom house,and since its just us now the family have flown the nest,we want to just get rid.
I think I will pack things away and put them in the loft.
We love our house,and wouldnt want to move,he has his computor room,I have a room for all my craft bits and pieces.
:-D :-D :-D

I would say I am not a minimalist , I am just married to a man that is " careful" (even though we both work fulltime and I earn more) but I work in Town and do avoid going down there unless I really need too. I only buy what I need so more boring that minimalist :-)

Thanks Hayley,
I hope I havent given people the impression that Im always buying things,quite the opposite,its the stuff I already have and accumulated over the years.
I bet minimalists have cupboards,as soon as you open them,all their stuff falls out....lol!!!!!!!! :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

i try to be a minimalist but my son kinda stops me :-\

Think I'll get hubby to make me some large cupboards,that might solve the problem. :-D :-D

Trish people on here think I shop none stop and has even been suggested that I am spolit pampered princess of a wife, nothing further from the truth and even if you do shop non stop,......why not :-D

Lol Hayley :-D :-D
Why not indeed.

I like your reply Stray, :-D :-D

In truth I just think I am very dispicline now, so use to counting the pennies.

Same here Hayley,now retired,but never did waste our money,not with bringing up a family.Never had much left over at the end of the week anyway.
We always had fun though. :-D

well im glad you do, i sort me front room, all toys in his room, and slowly, they creep back down,

:-S

Trish I am the same can't get rid of the thingsthat the kids have bought me over the years.also got a picture that my grandson did at nursery when he was just 3 and I still have it on the wall in my bedroom.

But like you I have to down size my ornaments and bits and bobs,but just can't resist anything made of Coal or Slate now as my ex brother inlaw's frined made me an Owl and a Hedgehog in Coal some 35 yars ago.And I won't part with those but I keep adding to them anything from Celtic Castings.

Sue

It's the toy fairy who brings them back Stray,lol!!!!!!!! :-D

Sue I know what you mean there,
I found some little drawings that my own children did,they have children of their own now,and I even found those drawings too.
What I am doing now,is putting these things in folders,and giving it to my daughters to keep for themselves.
Its up to them what to do with it. :-D :-D

:-| ill toy fairy him, were's my housework fairy??

There's no such thing Stray, i'm afraid to say,only the toy fairy....... :-( :-( :-( :-(