I realize I'm in the "send them off to college" mode lately, but that has been my life. I will get past this, but the experiences of sending two off this year has given me room for thought about simplifying.
A friend of mine recently sent her son off to college. She said she had to force him to get another pair of jeans because he is such a minimalist. She sneaked a box of tissues into his stuff, but he wasn't happy to see she'd packed snacks and so she had to take them home.
I lived on the island of Haiti for a summer for a missions project. We were allowed one duffle bag and it could only weigh a certain amount. We had three pair of pants, two dresses, work boots, underclothes, three shirts, any lightweight toiletries, a Bible, a basin to hand wash our few clothes, and that was it for the entire summer. The leaders were not being mean, we just had to carry all our tools and food to the island and weight on the plane was an issue. The planners also knew we'd be busy working and wouldn't need lots of stuff. You know, it really wasn't a hardship having so little. It was actually freeing. And, when you saw the conditions the Haitians lived in, you realized how blessed you were to have clothing that wasn't covered in rips and holes like some of the Haitian children.
Think about if you need to be more of a minimalist by getting rid of excess.
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