{"id":3092,"date":"2014-12-16T14:07:48","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T19:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3092"},"modified":"2014-12-16T14:07:48","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T19:07:48","slug":"living-minimally-sierra-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3092","title":{"rendered":"Living Minimally | Sierra Club"},"content":{"rendered":"

Living Minimally | Sierra Club<\/a>.<\/p>\n

‘Tis the season for sales. We’ve got Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday — days designated for buying more stuff. Yet most of us have spent the better part of a Sunday afternoon decluttering our homes and unloading bags full of unwanted goods at our local thrift store. Do we really need to buy all of those things in the first place? Living minimally makes way for more time, money, and opportunity in our lives.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe all have limited time, energy, and money. The world by itself has limited life, and if we are using those resources for manufacturing things that don\u2019t enhance our lives then it is a waste of our resources,\u201d said minimalist Joshua Becker, author of\u00a0Simplify: 7 Guiding Principles to Help Anyone Declutter Their Home and Life<\/em>, and BecomingMinimalist.com.<\/p>\n

Living minimally is about detaching ourselves from material things and connecting ourselves instead to people and the invaluable experiences life can provide –putting our money instead toward our futures and\/or to those in need.<\/p>\n

The minimalist lifestyle becomes appealing when it becomes necessary.\u00a0 In June 2001,\u00a0Time<\/em>\u00a0magazine writer Janice Castro termed the movement \u201cthe humble makings of a revolution,\u201d in which Americans were slowly trading in consumerism for contentment and finding joy in everyday moments rather than attaching themselves to status symbols. This movement was mostly tied to the economy, and it seems that today it is tied to the environment.<\/p>\n

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