Recently, my interest in making things by hand has dove-tailed with blogs and books to encourage me further in the direction of minimalism. Most notably, I'm currently reading "The Story of Stuff," a humbling look into the environmental and social impacts of our consumerist era. Nothing like it to challenge a person's love of Target.
Lately, when I'm feeling stalled out on making positive change in this area, I feel pulled to make a more substantial commitment to change. So I've decided that outlining some of the things I want to change here on the blog might hold me accountable and organize my thinking on something that feels so fundamentally important to me lately. Today I'm posting some changes I'm proud of and some areas where I need some work!
Progress
Owning one car
Buying second-hand (I love you craigslist!!!)
De-activating my facebook account (to focus on relationships in the here and now)
Living in a reasonably sized home for our family size
Only buying Reese a few things for his bday (and trying to get others to do the same)
Constantly trying to donate clothes, household items
Taking full advantage of our library (borrowing rocks!)
Making things homemade (less likely to make too much when each piece/meal takes work)
In need of help
Resisting the siren-song that is Target
Finding a way to keep the memory (but not the item) of things that are highly sentimental
Spending less time online "window shopping"
Reducing how much I want "stuff" all the time and halting my ability to justify any purchase
Anyone else out there working on this?
