All I need I already have – The feeling of enoughness – Minimalism here I go!!!!

This is the second blog of the year.  The year started with the rat race.  I mean in the literal sense.  Till now, I had just heard rat race in the corporate world.  But in our case in our home, me and Maddy(my husband) had to literally chase the rat from our home.  It wasn’t just me and him, it was our gardener subhash uncle , my building security and last but not the least, we had to call the PCI guys (rodent guys) to drive it out from my haven. We deputed every bit of our army into chasing the rat from our home – lolz!!!

We breathed a sigh of relief after 730 am today when it managed to get stuck in the rat sticktrap which the PCI guy had laid for it.  Yes, we did feel bad that we were doing it, but we didn’t have any choice you see. The rat was definitely breathing. The gardener came, put the rat in the plastic cover (virgin plastic) and he would have let it run in the garden.  Thank God for my gardener (he is someone we can always look upto when it comes to these errands).

These 3 days I learnt an important lesson – firstly, that since me and maddy are not great stuff collectors, it was easy for the people to see the rat running.  Had we dumped our home with stuff and belongings, it would have been really a difficult task. In fact, I also received compliments from them that my storage space is so empty and neat ( it was such a great feel – it was like I was on the right path of minimalism –thanks to Courtney Carver – I love her loads for helping clear the mental blocks about minimalism.   We had to do the thanksgiving to Subhash uncle and my security guy who had helped us a lot.

It struck me to give away few of my good sarees – which had been neatly ironed.  I remembered Subhash uncle telling me that he has a daughter – so here I was clearing my cupboard yesterday night around 10pm and had created 3 different cartons – one for giveaways, one for dumping and the other one for my vegetable and fruit vendor. It gave me a sense of satisfaction when I handed over the big bag of clothes (all good wearable ones) to these people.  Yes, minimalism yet again helped. Somewhere I felt that God paved the way for this incident so that I could dispose of my stuff to people who really needed it.

Happy for that as well!!!  I had cleared two racks in my wardrobe and was feeling good about it

Thanks Minimalism!!!

Clearing physical clutter and mental clutter is on my mind this year and I intend achieving it!!!

Regards

Rekha

Welcome 2019 – 2nd January 2019 – MY JOURNEY TO MINIMALISM!!! – MINIMALISM ON MY MIND

Here is wishing all my friends and family a very Happy New Year 2019. May this year be more mindful and may we all resonate more with seeking good health, wealth and peace and going minimalist(for those of you who really want to seek inner peace and well being).

I intend to start my journey of minimalism – this year.  It has been seriously on my mind since more than a year.  In fact, I also tried it 2 years back, but I guess I wasn’t really serious about it. Having read a lot of books on minimalism and also reading lot of blogs related to LESS IS MORE, I really wanted to give it a shot.  After a staycation of about 7 days in a stretch, I realized that the most important things that brought me happiness was nothing hurrying up, enjoying the simple koffee with my hubby overlooking the highway and the garden from my home. 

Simple things like watching a movie, listening to a lovely piece of music, reading a good book that I could relate to really mattered a lot to me.  I was in such a state of peace and nirvana when I spent those seven days (reinventing myself)- things that brought happiness to me.  We watched musical shows together, went for a stroll and all these days I didn’t shop at unless it was for food items and basic home shopping.   Shopping was not on my mind at all and at the end of these 7 days, I was yet happy. So, I had taken the baby steps to walking and treading on this path of minimalism.

We started off with de-cluttering our home (about 5 months back) since we had to get our home done up (went for a simple and functional renovation) and the end result was indeed amazing and happy feeling.  It not only brought a sense of calmness and peace, but every time I look at my home, there is serenity since we have managed to keep the basic theme simple.

We gave away a lot of stuff to charity homes, donated clothes, bed linen, men and women clothing, my accessories, my daughters clothes, her toys which she had managed to hide in those places where I could never see.  It brought happiness to all of us that we could give away stuff that could be put to better use and functionality as against lying in the wooden boxes and storage spaces in our home.

So that’s my first intention for 2019 – start off with minimalism and hope to achieve it over the next twelve months.

Walking my body everyday atleast for 20 minutes a day – has something I have started doing since the last one month, and I am surely seeing a lot of good results, my face feels fresh and healthy and my cells are thanking me for it.

Thirdly, we have started on a vegetable juice diet first thing in the morning, As this blog progresses, I am going to share few recipes on how to go about it and how one could kickstart on this very very important habit.

So cheers to all of us, let’s be more happy, healthy and express gratitude every single day!

Love

Rekha