How it all started: why I wanted to become a minimalist

I'm 16-18 years old and I dream of a lifetime of traveling.

My favorite quote?

Travel is my Home

So, the first real reason I wanted to become a minimalist was to have only one backpack to travel the world.

... Empty so as not to keep the essentials and prepare for the trip. A trip of a lifetime. A trip to never come back.

And next to that, fill my piggy bank if by magic I could sell my old stuff.
It's always good to have a full piggy bank. Since it's used to finance our dreams. And mine was the trip.

At that time, no one was talking about minimalism. And going around the world for a year (or more) was not so common.

It's 2014 and I'm buying my first property

Olivier and I moved to our nest at the end of 2014. And despite the size of the loft (120m2), I felt suffocated by what I had brought there: clothes- clothes- clothes- clothes. All this in boxes of the famous Swedish designer: 60l, transparent and superimposed one on top of the other. There are clothes in these crates that I wore when I was 14 years old... Let's say...: almost 20 years ago!!! large pants, dresses from the old time and so on.

What image do I have left of this move? A friend of ours who carried these dozens of crates in his car and trailer... A journey only for those clothes I no longer wore. Which I'll never put back.

Our daily lives as "very busy" young workers

For various reasons, I feel this increasingly pressing need to become minimalist. I need to...

• Sort out what you have to remember in order to make the best use of it,
• Empty to save time in your life,
• Empty to reduce the feeling of tidying up all the time,
• Empty to no longer feel possessed by our objects,
• Empty to learn to detach.
• And then maybe also, a little, to make a dream come true. Prepare a trip. A trip without a return ticket.

We are in 2019 and I'm having my first child

Baby's coming. I finally have a real deadline that will motivate me to close this gigantic clean up.
"Going on a trip for an indefinite period of time" was too fuzzy, too far away. A dream that may never come true. A dream that may only exist to remain a dream.

This key date motivates me: I want to welcome my child in a totally clean environment. Children love beauty and order.

And I no longer want to spend time looking for what I need, nor do I want to spend hours thinking about what to wear, let alone wasting my time cleaning and tidying up.

I also fear the overloading of objects/clothes/ etc. that enter the house when you have a small kid...