Gain a clear understanding of why you can’t part with your things. Photography and excerpts from Goodbye, Things, courtesy of W. Now he lives in a 215-square-foot apartment and owns 150 items, from his desk and roll-up mattress down to his toothbrush and “the bottles of condiments in his kitchen.” (And his book, recently released in the US, has sold 150,000 copies in Japan.) Call it reasonable minimalism: We asked Sasaki for advice on paring back what you own. That is, until he decided to get rid of most of what he owned: his books, CD collection, mattress, table, TV, two couches, and knickknacks. “I lived in this apartment for ten years, and during that time, it seemed like my life had stopped moving forward.” He had lots of things, “but in the end I didn’t really cherish any of them,” he writes in the book-and they were making him stressed and unhappy. Which is why we were happy to come across Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism written by Fumio Sasaki, who is not a minimalism expert, but a regular guy living in Tokyo who used to live in an apartment cluttered with stuff (books, CDs, beer cans, electronics), like many of us do. Minimalism has lots of rules: Do this, don’t do that keep this, throw everything else out. Icon - Check Mark A check mark for checkbox buttons. Icon - Twitter Twitters brand mark for use in social sharing icons.
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