Okay but why use so many words for that? Are you still attached to being perceived as smart? Then travel another round of this game. Greetings from the bog creature with the half-functioning brian cell

Most of it was left over from my marriage. I'll let you imagine exactly what I mean, you probably can. I got rid of it.

People won't approve of how I did it. I didn't donate or sell it, even though some of it could have been, maybe a lot of it. I didn't want to bother. I got a 40 yard roll-off bin and filled it. Then a year later I got a 30-yard roll-off bin and filled that. It wasn't high quality stuff, no antiques, nothing of much real value, but still I suppose some other people could have gotten some use out of some of it.

I could not believe how much crap was in my house. I've never been rich, but there was still so much crap. 70 yards filled to the top, and there's still some to go, I could probably fill another 10 yards without much trouble, but I'm down to stuff I actually use, at least occasionally. Or stuff with some significant value.

I walk through my neighborhood and get to peek into open garages as I pass. So many of them are packed full of just crap. Stacks of those plastic containers filled with god-knows-what with only a narrow walkway between them to the door. A couple of houses I pass have containers of crap on their front porch the same way. HOA says they can put what they want there, so a few people use it for storage. There's a house with four big storage sheds in the backyard, I can only imagine. Probably their garage is filled, too.

I admire the garages that are empty, just a couple of cars and some yard tools hanging on hooks on one wall. So peaceful and clean.

Stop buying crap, people. Please.

My personal rule of thumb is that if the new useful thing I bought requires a new routine or lifestyle change, I'll probably end up not using it

They are really pretty sometimes but do not deserve the time spend dusting. Unfortunately clutter can take many other forms including things that seems useful but are not deserving our time or energy either.

I have no idea why people buy useless trinkets

Meadowlarks or Wood Thrushes TIL about those pretty birds.

Sounds good to me! Luckily I have been able to WFH recently, and as the weather is nice, I can sit outside with my laptop, and listen and watch the birds in the garden ❤️

I also have a Birdnet PI set up which records and counts them, and you can listen to the audio stream from anywhere. A few people have their Birdnet systems accessible from the internet, so you can listen in to birds in other countries!

This supports my "the chicken is the best emotional support animal" hypothesis

oh consume wise im at a minimum.

I use to think this way but after learning about decluttering method, I realised there was two different things :

• decluttering as "throwing away stuff I don't care enough for, while keeping buying and acquering stuff I don't care enough about"
• decluttering as "evaluating what I truly need in my life and accepting that things that are getting dust and rust in my house are not less wasted as if I get them out, while changing the way I consume so that the waste of our society doesn't creep in my house anymore".

So many people are saying decluttering and mean throw away but learning about decluttering made me change the way things enter my house much more that it help me get it of other. But the mind set of "it is wasted even if if is inside your wall" was a big realisation to me.

Anticonsumption is at the top. The problem with decluttering is it is easier if you are doing well. Its harder to get rid of things if you do not think you can buy them again in future if you need them.

To me it means opting out of the hype cycles and rat races that the media pushes

I also find this important. These days in don't watch anything recent in films and movies. I find old ones that are not talked anymore, I rewatch the one I already know and love and I'm really proud of how I decorrelated my media consumption from algorith recommandation. It made my live quieter, my watching experience more divers and less rushed. I still got a long way to go before optiong out the hype cycle but that's a big win for me.

I wouldn't say I'm super great at living the Simple Life myself, but I do try. To me it means opting out of the hype cycles and rat races that the media pushes, appreciating and trying to get better at simpler things. Enjoying what I can do at home instead of seeking outside stimulation and entertainment.

The other day I took a bath because I had been gardening and gotten completely muddy. I pulled the plug after and realized I still enjoyed watching the water swirl around the drain the way I used to when I was a child. It's a small thing, but I try to stop and breathe whenever I remember. Just doing nothing for small periods at a time helps center myself and remind me of what's important.

tldr?

yeah I'm not watching half an hour of this amateur production spouting (based on 5 mins of skimming) obvious and bullshit takes

I think she just means she doesn't like frugality as a form of asceticism and self-denial, she thinks there should be room for joy and "frivolous" spending within reason. (Her point is that frugality is sometimes viewed as a normative call to reduce spending to only essentials, and that isn't necessarily a happy or healthy approach.)

Si tu connais qui que ce soit avec des problèmes de dents, tu te rends compte de l'importance de la prévention. C'est quoi la prise de rendez-vous et le passage de 30 min annuel chez le dentiste pour un petit détartrage, à côté de mois de douleur et de la salle d'attente des urgences dentaires ?

whats frustrating with the us is we have a perfect for irs to send us a filled form. Its called the 1040x and you use it to change a tax return you submitted. It has two columns so they could send one of the those or something configured like it, with the left side filled out and you could then sign or make adjustments on the right column and sign.

Agreed. I spend time on it and am inefficient but it's overall worth while taking into account the benefits. There are many critical or difficult things I wouldn't automate myself but my goal is to reduce my requirements down to substitutable services where my counterparty doesn't have a monopoly over me.

I'm a freelancer, and make my own documentation supported by invoices/receipts etc. As an employee, yeah, it doesn't make sense to self-report when the government already has the information it needs. A lot of countries use withholding so only send a statement of what you've paid and somewhere to complain when it's wrong, like you suggest.

I think some change is coming wrt technology. There seems to be more interest again in open source.

Certains de ces conseils peuvent paraitre insignifiants, mais je me rends compte que j'ai parfois besoin d'un petit retour à la realité. Surtout, faites vos bilans de santé!

I have no idea how you do that since almost all my tax documentation requires going into a portal to download the pdf. None of mine come straigtht into email. You are in the us? Anyway the fact you mention it as a kinda hobby is the issue. People have a lot of hobbies and some have no time for them. Its great if people enjoy it but its inneficient for everyone to be reinventing the wheel all the time. Things should be done such that its as easy as possible at the individual level while also being secure and private. It amazes me all the technology we have and how very little of it works for the typical individual (works as in empowers them and saves their time and helps them get the best deal or such as opposed to making it cumbesome unless they roll over and give all power to the entity their doing business with)

While that's often true, personal automation can be so freeing. It's more like a hobby for me, but my life is much better having more agency over how things get done.

Email and media are two underrated examples of common, potentially mind-altering, timesucks but I do also automate my accounts and taxes, e.g. most transactions are automatically journalised and year end closing spits out the fields I need to file taxes.

It works for me because it's highly personal. I love that I can nudge systems this way or that and the only agenda is one I choose explicitly.

I have always had a dumbphone and it has been amusing to see the typical reaction change over the years.

07 - 15 Oh, so you're broke?

15 - 24 Where did you even get that? How do you live?

24 - 26 Wow, I wish I could do that.

De rien ! (You're welcome!)

I find there is a need for digital minimalism in simple living. Or at least to not keep with the digital maximalism that is pushed to us in today society.

Yeah I agree that expectation to be available 24/7 is honestly suffocating, especially for people who require alone time to recoup energy.