I'm creative/handy but have been through a minimising process (ongoing) to move into a tiny home. I've treated it more like 'cut away the fat' than 'trim it to

I'm creative/handy but have been through a minimising process (ongoing) to move into a tiny home. I've treated it more like 'cut away the fat' than 'trim it to the bone'. If I used something less than about once a year, it's gone. I was terrible for hanging onto stuff because 'I might need it one day' but really, if/when that day comes I'll find another solution - like every other non-hoarding person does. There are trade-offs of course, it's something like: keepability = (usefulness * frequencyOfUse) / size If I have items which only do one job and another which covers several, the single-use items go. Eg: I only have gas for heat, so a kettle would be heated on the flame. But it can only heat water, whereas I have a saucepan which can heat water and also heat other things. So I don't need a kettle which I'd have to find space for when other things are on the hob (I really am in a small space). The same thinking has been applied to tools. I paint a lot so throwing away paint and brushes would be wasteful - I'd end up buying more. But I also had lots of gathered/found materials which I use for recycled art - they got chucked (sad but they were rubbish when I collected them). When I want to do some recycled art I'll use what I can find at the time. The paint/brushes etc. that I kept live in a simple wooden chest. Its flat top is extra worktop space when I need it (eg. putting down a hot pan). Put a cushion on it and it's a seat. The table I paint at folds down to become my bed at night. I can't paint quite as large as I used to - fine, this will be a different phase in my life as an artist. I can't store loads of canvases but it's ok I just have to act more responsively. A good artist can make art with pen and paper, I learned to embrace restrictions as part of the creative process years ago. I'm a long way from 'all fits in a suitcase' but I've got down to maybe 10-20% of what I owned a year ago. I feel lighter, more efficient (stuff's easier to find!), more free to relocate to different kinds of living spaces. I've shed a lot of nostalgic attachment to objects which I thought were important but do not miss. It doesn't have to be all or nothing. I refactored :)