What if I lost all of my possessions - MINIMALISM

We know that some items are important to us, we know that we could live without of some of the items we have. But what would happen if you lost all of your sentimental items? Living minimaly makes me think about why I own the things in my life.

[kwhite]

Hi, I actually have lost all of my possessions from having to flee from being stalked by an ex who also killed at least one of my pets. It's very painful, but I spend a lot of time in prayer, and have learned a lot of tough lessons from it. The worst is not having what you need or things to remember your childhood or those you love.

[inspiredby]

I've also thought about how unnatural and potentially detrimental o our mental health it is to keep exact records of all those moments in our past. This is actually why I stopped trying to keep a diary. I realized that what's important to me about my past is that it shaped me into the person I am today and I experience this every day even without any record of what I used to think and feel when I was younger. Photographs however are a different matter to me. They only capture what my eyes saw in that moment and help trigger the naturally faded memories I have in my head. I only take pictures of fun moments or things I find to be beautiful or interesting so occasionally going through them is a pleasant activity and when photos are no longer meaningful to me I delete them just like a boring memory would fade eventually. The only negative I see about keeping those digital photos is the slight anxiety I get about potentially losing them whenever there's a problem with my computer or the back up hard drive but this doesn't happen often.

[seaspeaktome]

I’d feel sad but in a way it might also be freeing? My photos would be the hardest thing to lose. Past generations really only had maybe a couple of photos, not the thousands we take now.

[chiaratoscano]

Thank you for diving in this topic. Great interesting thoughts

[emigonzalez]

I have been getting rid of the majority of my things and decluttering regularly for a year now and I am almost at the end of this process. I have some sentimental family items that cannot be replaced. If I ever lost them I dont think it would be a big deal. They are just things. The photographs however might be a different story and it would take months to scan and back all of them up. I am going to turn them into art and just hope my house never burns down. 🤷‍♀️ By the way, great video. I am surprised you don't have more subscribers.

[j.ketzner]

Hey, ich habe schon ein paar deiner Videos angesehen und ich finde die selbstkritische Perspektive, die du zu vielen Themen einnimmst, sehr inspirierend.
Du sprichst Themen an, über die ich viel nachdenke, aber die von Minimalismus- und Nachhaltigkeitsblogger*innen oft weggelassen werden, und man merkt sehr, dass du nicht wahllos wegwirfst sondern sehr bewusst mit dem Thema umgehst.
Ich finde es gut, dass du dir bewusst bist, was für ein Privileg es ist, sich dazu entscheiden zu können, ein minimalistisches und nachhaltiges Leben zu führen, und den Gedanken, dass nicht nur bestimmte Erinnerungsstücke, sondern das ganze Konzept von Fotos und Erinnerungen uns negativ beeinflussen könnte, fand ich auch sehr interessant
Ich hoffe auf mehr spannende Videos :)

[otjomph]

I would not miss a thing. Things
can always be bought and replaced.
Also documents can be reordered
for a small fee. Great video.

[LukeSeeleygamertagisVXChintzy]

I lost everything apart from my cat my phone and the clothes I was wearing... you don't know what it does to you and you'll never know until it happens

[sunnivastrauman]

Thank you for talking about this. There is so much i could say about this, and people don't seem to understand how messy it can get. My digital decluttering potential is extreme, i would say. Wish there were more tips and help out there. Maybe there is more now than what i know of, but my past research might have been before its time and now my anxiety attached to all of this has become too big. I don't know what to do. It's not that simple to solve once it has gotten as bad as mine.

It didn't help that i had photography as a hobby (still do, but i don't want to add more to the mess), and that my photo library got broken and therefor to get the photos i had to go behind the system where everything was very illogically organized to the human eye. And then apple's poorly photo organizing didn't make it any better as i got a smartphone and it got mixed up in the mess. I got a chronic illness ten years ago, as a teenager, that demanded a lot of administrative capacity from me (that i didn't have), demanding me to have many documents in order and saved for proving this and that and applications and so on. Now i have maybe ten e-mails, tons of physical notebooks and diaries, thousands of notes in Evernote, etc. I use Evernote as my idea bank for my music.

When i've been trying to fix this i have mostly made things worse, i think, and the systems and programs i have met and dealt with has not been working with me, with a lot of technical issues. The threshold is so high now, in every way.

It is extremely scary to think about deleting it all. But maybe it would be worth it? Maybe that is the solution, after all?

I have been so attached to all of this. To things, to files, to belongings. It takes so much of my energy.

I am wondering though, what do i have to keep? Guess i would still have to go through some of it... No easy fix, it seems. Sigh.

Lots of love, S

[raapyna]

I have a long comic project, and notebooks where I write my ideas for it. I would be sad if I lost those notebooks because I will never get the same ideas again. Perhaps it would help with cutting out the unimportant parts if I lost my notes though, because I remember the important things the best. I could just hide them for a while! No need to lose them in a fire. Should I keep them in my metal suitcase? 🤔 Is that too much?

[christine]

I would miss my grandmother's and my mother's jewelery that has been passed on to me. And my computer has a lot of my creations of music and photos and video I would miss. Most things I have could be replaced and I wouldn't mind different clothing