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Re:Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you re... by satvikpendem on Monday January 30, 2023 @11:45AM (#34582380)
There is a book I read recently called Goodbye, Things. It's like a more interesting version of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, as it talks more about the feeling of being a minimalist than TLCMTU does, which is more practical.

It talks about needing less space in general and being more free, simply by having fewer things, since things beget things; the more things you have, the more organizational containers you need, in turn creating yet more things and yet more space to store them in. Since then, I've tried to actively limit the amount of things and space they take up, since I hate clutter, but I hate organization as well.

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Re:Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you re... by sparks1970 on Monday January 30, 2023 @01:31PM (#34584229)
A good book which addresses the perception that "possessions are a projection of my true self" but it lost me when the author describes limiting himself to a single towel to both dry himself out of the shower and to dry dishes...
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