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It may sound crazy, but one way to scale down is to move every few years, especially when you pick up the cost of moving. The more you do it the easier it is to
by aeden 14y ago
It may sound crazy, but one way to scale down is to move every few years, especially when you pick up the cost of moving. The more you do it the easier it is to cut down on the stuff in your life you don't need. You also can become quite adept at rebuilding your living environment on the cheap with things like Craig's List. Food for thought.
- caseysoftware 14y agoThat works pretty well.. but I'd also throw in that once you move, any box that you haven't opened in a year should be tossed. The same should go for clothes, tech gear, etc. * I use a year instead of six months because occasionally you get that holiday-specific stuff that might be good to keep but only comes up annually.
- billpaetzke 14y agoWhat about old pictures of yourself, family, or other keepsakes?
- BSousa 14y agoScan and put them on dropbox/flickr? Use iPad or one of those digital frames to display them?
- Afforess 14y agoDo you really even look at them? When I'm with relatives, I remember events, not pictures. I say dump the photos.
- aeden 14y agoI'll admit, this has been the toughest thing to deal with. At the moment we've left a sort of breadcrumb trail with family members in various parts of the world (a box here, a box there, almost exclusively with photos). I like the idea of scanning everything, but for those of us born well before digital cameras became the norm, that would be a lot of photos. :-)
- BSousa 14y agoAgain, this maybe hard with wife/kids. When single I changed countries every 1-2 years (moved a lot around Europe). I learned to live with very little, but it isn't as easy when you have wife/kids (and uprooting your kid just for the sake of minimalism isn't really fair).
- philwelch 14y agoYou don't have to change cities or even neighborhoods to move every year. I've gone through phases in my life where I get tired of my apartment every year and move across the street.
- aeden 14y agoFWIW, I have a wife and 4 school-aged kids. :-)
- BSousa 14y agoWhoa! 4? My life is chaotic enough with just one :) How do they feel about the moving around? Wife and I talked about moving in a couple of years, but I'm reluctant because of the kid.
- aeden 14y agoMy kids are used to it at this point, at least that's what they tell us. Whether it's completely true or not, only they know. We do our best to make sure and move to places that are interesting for them and then to enjoy whatever is around that area as a family.