Imagine if you didn't have to answer to corporate America, you didn't have to outdo the neighbors, you didn't have to buy the latest trends, or have a dozens of subscriptions and interest on credit cards? Minimalism may seem like a hippie trippie trends, but it is bringing people back to what really matters. It takes them away from the trends and capitalism and more toward simple living and valuing what matters. As a senior, I can tell you a lot about this subject!
Baby boomers were raised on what we can obtain. Mom and dad had a house, a well-paying job that allowed mom to raise a lots of kids, and offer children a car when they got their license and a college of their choice.
Like other baby boomers, I married the man with potential, raised a kid, had a home, owed a mortgage, owed car payments, owed bills and credit cards, put in a pool, expected to stay up with the neighbors. This drove my husband and I apart on our priorities. We divorced, like most Americans. We had to figure out how to continue on as separate people.
Eventually, I struck out on my own for the first time in my life and realized I didn't have the education or the career that could pay for the lifestyle I thought was "ideal."
As a single woman in her late 40s, with an industry that was dying, my first and only priority was to own a home outright so, no matter what, I always had a home.
The journey there involved much including having to renew and repurge everything I own up until I lost my storage unit and lost literally everything I owned.
It is from that jumping point that you can either see yourself as a failure or feel the liberation of giving up on the social standards of success.
Maybe start small with a backyard shed that you convert into an office or tiny home.
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