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Dear Santa: Please Don't Bring Me Any More Stuff, I Don't Need It

How to clear out the clutter and get back to the basics

By Dave Hakkens - December 16, 2015

in Storyhopper

For some reason my house is full of stuff. Not even cool or useful things, just redundant stuff that I don't need or ever use. And yet for some reason I hold on to it. It's easier in the moment to just quickly stash things in a box and then squeeze those boxes into a closet—the perfect place to forget about their existence. At some point I realized that if I didn't do something about it, I'd end up carrying all this stuff around for...the rest of my life?! And so I set out to clean up my life and made a short film of the process. Since I never, ever want to do this again, I created a Buying Guide to help me make better decisions the next time I want to purchase something new. If you could use some help with it as well, download and print one for yourself!

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I'd love to hear from you—have any of you embarked on a similar purging mission lately?

This story originally appeared on Story Hopper, a collection of design stories worth sharing squeezed into short videos.

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Espen Johansen

8 years ago

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After traveling for a week with only a 35 liter backpack (admitedly, sleeping in hotels and hostels so not completely without outside help), I asked myself "why do I have a appartment full of stuff when all I need to live takes up 35L of space?". I still have a appartment full of stuff, but I've cleared out a lot of space since then.

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Matt Bowman

8 years ago

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I really like this idea - I have way too much 'stuff',
I think it would be difficult to do this in the long run, but definitely worthwhile!

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