Very inspiring! Now, I have no desire to be a complete minimalist, but I do have wayyyy too much "stuff" bogging me down. I find it very difficult to get rid of it too. I think I need to work on my thought processes here... I am a hoarder in some ways (well not like those people who hoard so much they can't move around their homes) but I get a sort of sentimental attachment to stuff and find it hard to let go of... I still sometimes catch myself thinking back to stuff I don't have anymore and feeling nostalgic, or wondering what happened to it... which is probably why I don't dump more of the stuff that I DO have!
All that being said, I would love to be able to walk into a tidy, uncluttered living environment! Stuff gets messy very quickly when you've got a lot of it
(not helped by living with 3 kids LOL).
If anyone out there has managed to take themselves from a nostalgic "pack rat" to someone who has decluttered and streamlined their lives, I'd love to hear how they did it
. It's the emotional attachment/guilt etc. that gets me. I tend to anthropomorphise EVERYTHING which doesn't help either!