🌱 I'm a minimalist in progress and recovering over-collector, 🤷♀️ & my channel focuses on simple living and finding momentum in life. I'm glad you've found this little community, where everyone is welcome :)
A bit more about me: 💡 I'm Elin. I share mostly tips, my own mistakes, and strategies to help you live with less, but my channel is about so much more than that -- it's about self-empowerment and creating a better life. My background is in psychology -- I have a Ph.D. -- so I use what I've learned to try to help others build confidence and a more balanced life.
I also share my own personal journey: health struggles (I am an MS fighter!), fun travel adventures (recent trips include Iceland, Paris, and Denmark!), and personal challenges. I live with my husband, Andy, and my little dog, Ginger. 🐶
Thanks again for all the support and comments -- I learn so much from the people in this community, and I'm thankful to be a part of it. 🌱
Thanks for the reminder to look at the bigger picture :) I love your work and I am a long term subscriber! At first I wasn't sure if you made up this reoccuring dream, but you added some subtle details and people in the comments say they dream similar things, so I guess you told a true story. Please keep it real, we love you because you are the way you are! I have never dreamed about packing or decluttering and I find it very interesting that it seems to be a common topic in dreams. There are a lot of layers to unpack here: The theme of overwhelm, missing help from partners, being tied to this huge task of packing / tidying / decluttering, responsibility ... I want to add a comment about the thumbnail of this video: The red bars on the top and the bottom are somewhat misleading. When the video appeared in my recommendations it looked like I had already watched it (and the video above yours as well). At first I thought there was something wrong with RU-vid and it took a while before I realized the bars belong to the thumbnail. They really stood out.
I have double vision, I’ve had it for almost 10 yrs now and I’ve had my vision checked so many times and everything was fine. It comes and goes but I get a strange sensation with mine and if I close one eye the double vision goes away. Your story makes me wonder if I do have MS. I also have the bug crawling, tingly feeling, fatigue that hits me so hard I can’t do anything but lay down, and bad vertigo which also comes and goes where the room is spinning. I have an apt with a neuro- ophthalmologist soon so I might bring it up with him.
You're right that so many people have a hard time dealing with those memories behind things and letting them go. I tend to think about it in a way that nothing really is meant to last long except what matters to our memory of it, so letting go just becomes second nature now.
I have a sweatshirt from about 30 yrs ago, had a pic of me and my son as a baby transferred to it. I gave it to my mom and she recently gave it back to me. The pic is somewhat faded but I can’t let go. 😢
How funny! I have this same dream too, every few months! The recent one was I had my childhood furniture and all of my Mom's keepsakes in the room too, and I was trying to rent a uHaul at the last minute. In another dream, I found an opening to a (really nice) secret closet where I could store my clothes. In another version, I had to get special permission to leave all my things in the dorm room and come all the way back in the fall to retrieve them, even though there would already be girls trying to move in. A common theme is I don't have anyone to help me lift the heavy things. I'm so glad you shared this!
I really love the zooming out & looking at the bigger picture concept, thanks for sharing Aline I'll definitely try this when I next go through my belongings 👍😊
I don t understand why people wouldn t talk about it, I know families with and without kids now in their thirties and talking is never an issue. About infertelity about not having kids or having kids and being sick ... it s pretty sad that you live in such a difficult part of the world
I heard the Minimalists say if we keep everything that has a memory attached, we'll keep everything. Are we willing to let some memories go? We don't have to keep every memory. We aren't supposed to.
I've heard we really never get rid of memories, the mental ones. Anything can trigger them. A common one is a song we associate with a place, former lover, special occasion. We could donate or delete the physical, the mental parts live on even when buried. We can cope nonetheless.
This is so me in some ways! I do associate events with clothing. I still remember the little red polka dot dress when I was a girl and the event around it…
I saw on a video a while back (and I am sorry but I cannot remember which channel it was from) where the suggestion was made to take a photo of the item if the fear of forgetting the item was great. I have done this and it takes the stress off. I also find myself from time to time, deleting some of the photos because I am really it was my fear speaking not my need for the item.
Oh my god, I regularly have a very similar dream. I'm usually in a hotel room and have to leave quickly but everything is full of stuff and I only have two or three small bags and when I pull stuff out it get's more and more. Things from my childhood and from my kids when they where little and it never ends. And I'm always very angry at my husband, that he doesn't help me. It's so weird
I love this. So many minimalist say that you will never think about it again once it’s decluttered and for me that is definitely not true. I do feel a little bit of sadness when I am suddenly reminded of something I have decluttered. I remind myself that I can’t keep everything and I don’t feel wrong for decluttering it, but there is still a little bit of grief to deal with. You are right though that most often I am not really missing the object, but rather the way it made me feel- cozy, loved by the people I used it with, etc. Another terrific video! Thanks!
“Minimalism, I am a minimalist...". I do tell myself that “material possessions takes about 10% space in your life. What then is the remaining 90%? Well, it's mental possessions". You can “get rid of stuff" but still,you would feel like you've done nothing. It's rewarding to actually declutter the physical stuff but the mental stuff,damn, it's hard! As for owning stuff, I understand,what or the tip I know of is: “Appreciate without owning ". The longing to own stuff would be there but what measures do you take? My problem is: How can i declutter books? Any suggestions?
I have adrenal insufficiency. I have all the symptoms that you talk about every day. For the last four years, I’ve been trying to find a balance in my life. Yesterday I went to my endocrinologist they drop me because I tell them I have to stress dose on steroids and they told me, I can’t do that. There’s no such thing as stressed so they drop me. But I go through all the symptoms every day that you talk about specially emotionally crying in the morning trying to get my body balanced with medication’s. Adrenal insufficiency is a hidden chronic disease, no one knows how to treat it
People here might appreciate Bob Cafaro’s story: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZqoRGr3icTo.htmlsi=0FJ563YHnOdJxSit He also wrote a book called When the Music Stopped, talking about his personal experience healing from MS.
videogames are entire worlds, universes... just as books are. Nu-uh! Not getting rid of sources of joy. Even if they are old... well if you did not keep the proper console to play them on and now they became unplayable to you, thats your own fault. Just because something is "old" one does not simply mean I need to dispise it. And they do not really take up huge space either... e.g. my old Pokemon games for the Nintendo DS, which I btw still vistit from time to time with the utmost joy, are a similar size as an SD-card. Even if you are referring to PC-games or PS- or XBOX-games which used to come in a DVD-like cover, that does not take up huge space. Better get rid of anything else on your list cuz thats plenty
NOT having a dog is a weird time in my life😅 still, i like the fabric tip, you could also use a tablecloth if the fabric is similar or sew the edges of the fabric to make it look more intentional.
Thank you for your video, it helped a lot! I was sharing on YT of videos of ppl dealing with grief and loss regarding medical condition. I’m insulin dependent type 1.5 diabetic for the past 20+ yrs, I walk with a cane due to deform right hip, no right inner thigh muscle, pin in my left hip, POTS, & post viral fatigue syndrome/long covid. It’s validating to hear from others dealing with similar struggles due to medical conditions.
Your dining area is so lovely. Nice!! I appreciate the coffee you were holding (Irving Farm). . My husband has had that. He likes dark roast. I'm a cocoa drinker. I appreciate the Fair Trade/direct trade coffees/cocoas.
You just look so cute. And I love the "if you don't have a baby" lol I start thinking of it like, do you have a dresser? Do you have a shirt? Do you have a baby? I need to go pick up a baby at Target.
