A Cheaper MoveĮven if we hadn’t minimized, we wouldn’t have planned on paying a moving service. While the benefits of having less stuff to move may be obvious, it’s worth taking a look at just how different moving as a minimalist can be. We’re moving less stuff out as a family of five than we moved in as a young couple. A few boxes of toys, sentimental items, and seasonal items.3 kids bicycles, a wagon, a stroller, and some outdoor toys.Enough clothes to last each of the five of us 1 week without doing laundry.1 Set of plates, bowls, silverware, and cookware.With our moving day just a week away, here’s our packing list: We parted with half of our possessions, and in other cases, even more. Over the years, we learned that a full house doesn’t necessarily mean a full life and we did pulled a 180 with our finances and our focus on stuff. Throw in clothes, kitchen items, and toys for our growing family and we had very quickly “solved” our empty house problem. Over the next several years, we furnished each room, buying new couches, desks, coffee tables, beds, and so on. Thankfully, we were disciplined enough to avoid financing furniture, but that didn’t stop us from dedicating time and money to fill the voids in our home. It quickly became obvious that we “needed” to buy more stuff but we didn’t have the money to buy everything right away. Not included here was the endless boxes and bins of paperwork, books, sentimental items, and…junk.ĭespite the length of the list, our 1900 square-foot house felt woefully unfurnished when we moved in. Enough clothes to last both of us 2-3 weeks without doing laundry.Two full sets of plates, bowls, silverware, and cookware.Tons of pillows (bed pillows, throw pillows, floor pillows, sitting pillows).For both of us, our possessions were very much “college gear” - the furniture, place settings, etc that we had carried around with us over our time in school.Īt a high level, here’s what we brought when we moved in 10 years ago: My wife had just graduated and I had been out for two years. When we moved into this house, we were two recent college graduates. Our family is about to be a part of the millions of people that will move this year, but we’re hoping our minimalist lifestyle provides for a very different experience. For most, it’s an expensive, stressful process that requires weeks of planning. Most people wouldn’t put the process of moving from one home to the next very high on their list of favorite activities.
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