I'm trying to be a minimalist...

With the world over-consuming everything, with so much in the stores, and people not really buying or if they are, stores are constantly stocking up their shelves to have people buy.

I am trying to be a minimalist, and will start soon.  I do feel real disgusted with myself that I have so much clothing in my room and so many other things, like piles and piles of makeup, and not just that my room has many pairs of shoes.  I get discounts and what not from buying things because nowadays you can get good things at very low discounted prices.  The clothing items I buy are really cheap, they don't look cheap, but it's piled up in my room and I don't even wear some of the things.  I'm trying to get this blog going where I show you my style and what I think looks good, but really I am pretty disgusted with myself.  Over five years I have accumulated all of this pile of clothing.  I buy things I think will be a classic or will last me for a while when it comes to being stylish, where I can go to work in or where I can have a good night spent at a club with something that looks like a classic.  A classic usually doesn't go away in fashion, it's fashion cycle peaks and sits there until it finally goes out of style but it sits there at the peak for a long time, for example, a cardigan.  A cardigan has been in style for a long, long time.

Anyways, what is a minimalist?

I think a minimalist, really tries to keep what they need in life and pass off things that society is depended on and they feel they don't need them so they don't buy or consume those things.  They can live without a TV, a car, a nice, decorated home or anything that they think they don't need.  In society, we are so depended on things like a fancy mobile phone that keeps all of my files and information on it, it's like a small little computer that fits in our palm or hand.  Do you actually need something like that?  Do you really need a smart phone?  It all depends, if you ask the real questions.  Maybe what you need is a small flip phone that just dials the number and if you really need something to get you from point A to point b, you would need really a map and if you need directions getting somewhere and a map can't do that like for example, walking to some place, just ask a stranger...For many years and decades, we have done this without a smart phone.

What if one day our satellite gets knocked out, what would we do with our phones?  We can't use it until our satellite gets fixed.  How we do get around without a cell phone, how do we communicate without the connection?

That is one thing that I am trying to do is to become a doomsday's prepper one day,  I am trying to be a minimalist and also that as well as being a survivalist, because I feel we need to prepare for ourselves.

We don't necessarily need the fancy things in our lives if we are to be living in a minimalist's world.
I believe Buddhist monks also are minimalists and they live their lives without certain things in their lives.

We tend to put a lot of meaning into the things or possessions we have, and what can you do without it?  If you can do without certain things or thing is to first of all ask yourself if you really need whatever that is.  Would you die if you didn't have it, and if you are to ask yourself if you are going to die without it, means there is more meaning to it if you are on the brick of surviving with it and having it in your life, then the other things or possessions in your life have no or very little meaning compared to this thing.

I told myself, if I were to buy a place, I would buy a trailer and not decorate it from the inside.  If i were to buy a house I would not even decorate it as well and it would be a small house that has enough rooms for everyone within my family, and i don't intend to have a big family.  It would have just the simple things within in it that I, we, us, need.  I have had many possessions in my life where they were too heavy to carry when we moved, and having that trailer that I want and need one day, I would be able to move wherever I can park my trailer.  I have moved many times in my life and those possessions almost broke my back when I have tried to move to another place.

So that's why I am trying to be a minimalist in every I do.  Even in the way I style my clothing on a mannequin.  Even in the way I wear my makeup when I go out.  I hardly even go out that much so that's why I say I have a simple life.  I hardly even travel as well so that's why I am simple and that I have a simple life.  I am a very simple girl, with a complicated mind.  My mind is only complicated because I think a lot and everything to me in my mind is complicated because subjects are always overlapping and contradicting, but the minimalist's mind is trying to be simple and minimal in the way they do and have things.