The great thing about being minimalist is that you are constantly paring down your possessions and that means that you eventually end up with the best of the best or la creme de la creme! All your clothes are the most beautiful, best-fitting, flattering garments that you wear and your books are an absolutely amazing read, your music makes you feel wonderful and your furniture (what little you have) is comfortable AND great looking.
Well, that is hopefully what I will end up with but meantime it made me wonder - why do we put up with sub-standard possessions? Why do we wear clothes that don't fit properly or don't flatter us? Why do we sit on ghastly-coloured sofas and look at garish wallpaper? Is it a question of taste or do we buy what is advertised because we do not know our own minds?
There is an advert on TV for a sofa company (no names) which has the most ugly sofas I have ever seen but act as though you must be gagging to buy one. Perhaps you are and who am I to tell you what is nice or not?
Perhaps an orange leather squashy sofa with purple swirly cushions is your idea of heaven? Good for you. I must mind my own business but remember me in a years time when you are fed up with looking at it. On the other hand you could go the other way of a certain designer and have everything in taupe (I think I prefer the orange and purple).
To go back to my original thought - why do we own so many things of dubious quality - I can only think that it is because for most of us quantity is better that quality and perhaps that has to do with fear of losing our stuff? Is it a wartime mentality? My mother-in-law always bought two items when one had been used so that her kitchen cupboards were a menace to open in case lots of cans fell on your head!
Anyway, onwards and upwards with the paring down until you reach sanity.
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