Follow me: Reducing is very much synonymous with minimalism.
Your roadmap to minimalism is two-fold. Firstly, it's about reducing your current consumption. And secondly, reducing your future consumption.
REDUCING YOUR CURRENT CONSUMPTION requires an assessment. Ideally you can find choose a place for your items to continue being used and avoid landfills and recycling altogether.
➩ Ideas and places to sell & donate
Auction houses
Diggerslist.com
Dress for Success (workplace attire)
Ebay.com
Facebook marketplace
Flea markets
Food banks
Freecycle.org
Friends and Family
Garage and yard sales
Habitat for humanity
Homeless and women’s shelters
Laundromat (magazines, laundry supplies)
Library (books, CDs, and DVDs)
Local SPCA (towels and sheets)
Nurseries, preschools (blankets, toys)
Operation Christmas Child (new items in a shoe box)
Optometrists (eyeglasses)
Regifting
Rummage sales for a cause
Salvage yards (building materials)
Schools (art supplies, magazines, dishes to eliminate class party disposables)
Tool co-ops (tools)
Thrift stores and second-hand outlets
Waiting rooms (magazines, books)
Your curb with a ‘free sign’
REDUCING your FUTURE CONSUMPTION
1. Question your quantities: how much do you need?
2. Keep shopping out of sight and out of mind
3. Find other activities to focus on
4. Find satisfaction in what you have
Ask yourself, whether that ‘goal’ of having that ‘next best thing’ is really what life is all about?
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