As much as I admire minimalism styling, decor and color plate, I find it extremely difficult to live a minimalist lifestyle.
One essential tip to make minimizing easy and sustainable lead a minimalist lifestyle came from Design Sponge brilliant essay by Grace Bonney:
Whether it’s a pair of shoes or a gently-used coffee machine, there’s almost always someone near you that could use that object and would get greater pleasure and joy (or aid more in their day-to-day survival) than you.
Thinking about minimalism has been a healthy way for me to better examine the reasons I buy and hold on to things