To finish out the series, here are some challenges to you to minimize your life this January!

Go through one drawer each day until you go through all the drawers in the house. Throw things out, recycle, shred, whatever you need to do to get it organized.

Turn all your hangers around and set a reminder to see what’s still backwards in a few months.

Get rid of dishes and cups you really don’t use. 12 place settings, there’s only two of you, and you NEVER have company? Why keep them?

Go through your movies – get rid of the ones you have watched before but haven’t watched in the last 2 years.

Go through your books – get rid of the ones you’ve read and won’t read again. Find a little free library or two and leave them there.

Create a custom friends list on Facebook. Bookmark that for when you go to Facebook.

Unsubscribe from 5 email lists each day. Seriously, are you EVER going to read those emails? Cut them loose.

Sit and enjoy your current situation. Life is about the journey, not the destination, so enjoy where you are today!

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As you make changes, you will find yourself with more free time, but be careful how you fill it. Like I mentioned before, you get into minimalism to make room for the great.

Don’t try to fill the space you empty – whether it’s getting rid of physical stuff or mental stuff. This goes back to how minimalism forces you to be honest with yourself.

You will never arrive.

You will never finish.

Minimalism is a lifestyle change. It is a mindset shift.

And you will continue to change and shift as time goes by.

As Bret and I have been talking about if we ever “settle down” and buy a home, we’ve actually (GASP!) been talking about getting furniture. I don’t think this makes us less “minimal” but again, purposeful in what we own.

I could see a few hammock chairs in our future.

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We love our chairs (Amazon affiliate link – if you decide to buy them, we get a a little extra into our taco fund) and they are so versatile. We use them for every day use, as well as camping, sitting on the beach, or on the lawn or balcony.

We didn’t buy it with this intention, but our coffee table has had so many uses over the years. We’ve used it as a dinner table, an office table, and a coffee table. Pretty good for a basic Wal-Mart coffee table.

Our bed on the floor is also our camping bed.

Our clothes drawers were also used as hampers previously.

All of this makes moving and cleaning up very, very easy.

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I’ve grown and changed a lot over the last five years, from getting sober, to moving a lot, to changing careers several times, and just a whole bunch of different mindset shifts. Through all of this growth, I’ve learned how to be honest with myself and true to myself. There are things that can make me upset, there are things that are draining, there are things that I see online that will deeply affect me for hours or days.

To help keep my social feeds healthy, I have created friends and pages lists. This helps me to keep my mind and soul protected.

You can set time limits and night time/morning time cut offs. I turn off my work notifications from about 5 pm – 8/9 am every day, and none on weekends (except for special circumstances).

I’ve also learned that it really throws off my work week if I work out of the apartment multiple days in the row. So I take very special care to keep my out of apartment days spread out. Again, there are some special circumstances at different times of the year (I’m looking at you week before Christmas!)

Here’s an example of what happens when I work out of the apartment too many days in a row

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