I minimalized my home when I left my husband...lol. Well, maybe not so LOL. I moved 2100 miles away & took only what I could fit in a medium sized moving truck which I drove cross country.....some of PC helped me through that drive every evening with a check in.

I have a huge house & didn't put any furniture in the truck other than a rocking chair & a dining room table & chairs & my bed was brand new & in a box that I didn't put together for several years while sleeping on an air mattress on the floor.....until my dogs finally punctured the last air matterss & I ended up flat on the floor one night. That was when I decided it was time to put my sleep number bed together.

Ok, all joking aside. I think there is a lot to simplifying one's life. It wasn't until I left my husband & was able to let go of some of the hurts that I found out he had done along with the things I knew he had done that my mind was able to start thinking again & being able to see & feel again. My brain was so filled with the anger that there was no room for anything else.....& the house I left was nothing but clutter because it not only had our things from 33 years of marriage, but I had moved in some of the things from my mother's home after she died in 2005 (I left in 2007).

It felt so good to stand in my own kitchen & realize that the food I had purchased at the store were all things I liked & being able to finally analyze my thinking from the past, I realized some very enlightening things......along with being able to finally have a real relationship with God....not just go to church. It was an awesome feeling to have a mind capable of thinking again. First thing I did was go to the book club at the Library & read a book & really discuss it with everyone in the group......something I had never been able to do ever before in my life. I have not formally gotten into minimalization, but I can definitely understand from my own experience that there is definitely something to it.