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A reminder as to why I am striving to live a minimalist life:
My grandma has lived by herself since 1991 in a small town and never paid for trash service. She would just drop her small bags of trash off at a friend’s house. She found ways to reuse containers and disposable items to keep her waste minimal. She simply never produced enough trash to need the service, which honestly feels pretty iconic. Getting rid of items felt like throwing money away to her so it made sense why she's kept everything. My parents have tried for years to help her part with unused things, but it never made sense to her.
I want to be clear, the way she holds onto things does not come from a place of judgment from me. This video is a way to document and appreciate the memories her home and her belongings hold. But it’s also a message for people who do have the ability, or the support, to start pairing down their own things. Not as a demand or a lecture, just as a gentle shift in perspective. Our belongings don’t go with us when we pass, and more often than not, they end up in landfill. I’m simply offering a moment to reflect on what excess can turn into and how we might choose to hold on to what really is important to us.