Do you own a lot of stuff or are you a minimalist?

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I am moving into a new apartment and I am sick of all of the stuff I have accumulated over the years. Most of it is stuff I need as I have already thrown out useless stuff.....however, I still find that I own too much and it just takes too long for me to organise and clean my room. Recently I have become a bit of a minimalist, but I have still to implement it entirely in my life. In the past, I have bought some nice expensive clothes and accessories which I just can;t throw away, even though I know that I will only wear them two or three times in the next two or three years.

So, are you a minimalist or do you own lots of stuff?

I am slowly going minimalist. Recently, I was able to get the contents of my storage unit delivered to the state I live in now. I was amazed at what I had been faithfully paying storage on, all those years. The television set was out of style, and a lot of stuff I no longer even liked. I donated a lot of things to a local homeless shelter, and a few churches. I was able to sell quite a few books on Amazon and Ebay. I am still slowly getting rid of stuff. For the books, I was able to ask myself how much I loved them, and if I had read them in the past year. In many cases, I had enjoyed the book when I read it for the first time, but didn't care to read it again. So, out it went. If they were old favorites, (Like many from my childhood) I decided to keep it. I was able to get rid of a great deal of household appliances that I no longer needed, since I live in a smaller space.

I would advise selling what you can, like on Craig's list or something. And donate others that you can't sell. I was surprised at how good it felt, to get rid of stuff, instead of accumulate it.

I might be considered a minimalist. I don't have that much stuff and have lots of open floor and surface space in my house. My ocd gets really terrible with lots of objects around.

I dont have money to own a lot of stuff. But i would if i could.

I own a lot of stuff - especially DVDs, posters, teddy bears, blankets, pillows and art supplies.

I like surrounding myself with a lot of stuff, but only if everything's in its proper place. Whenever my room gets messy (and it does often) I become overwhelmed.

I collect a lot of stuff and hate to get rid of anything. I hate garbage day.

But I have a lot of cool stuff I like---magic tricks/illusions, HO scale models, keyboards, telescopes, blueprints to houses and roller coasters, books, and it goes on and on. I have always liked collecting things.

Last edited by glider18 on 01 Oct 2010, 7:08 am, edited 1 time in total.

Then keep them for two or three more years and get rid of them the next time you clean up.



I've spent the last two weeks advertising a lot of my crap on CL and so far no one has bought anything yet.

up until the time my parents passed away, i was an incurable collector of stuff. if it was a bargain, into my place it went. now that i am financially and spacially challenged, i have been a good boy and not bought one non-essential thing, namely anything other than sundries related to basic survival. but i still can't get rid of anything, i just shoved it all in corners and in my one spare bedroom, floor to ceiling.

I own a lot of stuff. Always have. But I am working on streamlining my collection of books. One day, I would love to only own hardcover first editions.

I like to collect things so no, I'm not a minimalist. Actually I can be a bit of a hoarder.

I could put everything I own in my car and drive off, I've done it before about 2 years ago. That being said I do have over 200 CDs, a fairly complete collection of the best PS2 games out there. I still insist that I'm a minimalist. I get by with what I can and I will until I have more money than I can possibly enjoy dumping into cars.

I own a lot of stuff. Most of it is useful though.

I'm more of a hoarder and pack rat... I've still got my Dreamcast and Legos and what not

Having had an itinerant lifestyle for the last 20 years I have been able to fit all my belongings into 2 back packs. My fiance is a collector but we are slowly chipping away at his un-necessary junk. We're about to move town and I think I might be surprised by how much I have accumulated these last 9 months since I've settled down a bit to start writing and purchasing of more photography gear.

Travelling light is wonderful!

What does hoarding have to do with owning a Dreamcast? Only reason I could see for not wanting to own a dreamcast as a gamer is because you have Skies of Arcadia and stuff for the gamecube instead.

I'm also in a transition to minimalism. Paradoxically, I also have to fight the tendency to hoard useless junk. I have a mental map of the things I own and have a pretty good idea of what I plan to get rid of, someday.

I'm also in the process of replacing my shirts with grey t-shirts. Someday I think I will have the most boring wardrobe in the world, and I look forward to that.