Thoughts on stuff

Recently I've been trying to cut out several things from my day-to-day life. I've always hated to throw functional things away - and useless things as well, for that matter - which has lead to the accumulation of loads of junk; that is how I've begun to view many of my possessions.

Over the past year I have sold, donated and tossed much of this junk, but I still have a long way to go until I'll be satisfied. I would like to have only things that are useful (and used of course) or truly loved for other reasons. The rest is just fluff occupying my space and thoughts. For anyone who has read blogs or books on minimalism, which is what I've been doing this last year, this will sound familiar.

Even though I'm not striving for absolute minimalism (I don't like labelling things), I'm still drawn to the general idea. And to obtain that state I'm looking for, clearing out is not enough. I also need to be weary of what I bring into my life. This suits me for two reasons; number one: I've felt guilty about my consumption ever since I was old enough to become aware of it (11-ish if anyone might wonder), and number two: I love the rebellious feeling of consumer disobedience when I turn down "special offers", ignore advertisements and avoid buying stuff because it is trendy.

This may be a recurring theme in my posts or it may be a once-only post. In a way, I think I'm too introverted to keep a public log of my thoughts at all, but then I also love to write and would like to use English more, and what better way is there to do so? We'll see what happens.