Except, the opposite of > own as little as possible, for a clutter-free, minimalist lifestyle is not > keep your basement and your cupboards full of useless

Except, the opposite of > own as little as possible, for a clutter-free, minimalist lifestyle is not > keep your basement and your cupboards full of useless junk It seems reasonable to keep one set of Christmas decoration, maybe one and a half if you don't want it to look the same every year, keep one 8-person dinner set for the three times a year you might need it. Occasionally go through your wardrobe to see if you still want to wear all your clothes, and give those away you don't want, but maybe keep two pieces that you never wear just because you like them. A persons life is probably full of examples like this, where it's reasonable to keep items that aren't exactly useful every day, or even every month. These things add up and come to be called clutter, just maybe because they're many pieces, even though they all have their purpose. And don't get me wrong, there is absolutely junk that's too much, and that one probably doesn't need to keep. But in the end this minimalist idea always seems a bit juvenile to me, where when confronted with complexity, the solution is to throw everything out instead of organizing it, recognizing that there aren't perfect systems of organization and managing to live with a small bit of actual clutter, but at the same time being able to actually host some friends coming over for dinner or fix something that's broken without first having to procure a screwdriver.