Canadian 36-year-old Casey Jones and her husband raise two children.
The two children are 9 and 8 years old respectively, which is very noisy.
There are a lot of things in the house and they are often in a messy state. It will take about an hour to pack it up.
Casey and her husband have long been annoyed about this.
At first, the couple started selling items they didn't need just to repay the debt.
But soon they realized that there is really no need for something at home.
So the couple continued to deal with things that were not available at home, or donated them to charity.
(son's bedroom)
So far, Casey and her husband have processed nearly 3,500 items, including blankets, children's toys, clothes, and wedding day decorations.
Just as kitchen supplies, up to 562 pieces were cleaned.
After cleaning up the excess, the home instantly became much more refreshing.
Casey said that in the past, it took an hour to clean up the house at once, but now it can be done in 5 minutes.
"Now the house is easier to keep clean, and I clean it less often.
I also need less maintenance and don't have to spend so much time looking for things."
(daughter's bedroom)
Now, Casey's house only keeps essentials.
For example, this family of four has only 4 plates and 4 coffee cups.
In this regard, Casey said:
"We have become much happier. Now the family can have more time to be together and focus on important things."
Everything is difficult at the beginning. After experiencing the pleasure of "save the leave",
Kissey said that now he has become "ruthless" enough to easily face the chaotic scenes and decisively throw away unnecessary things.
In the process of handling items, Casey has a set of standards he has summarized.
For example, if there are clothes, she believes that if there are clothes that have not been worn for more than a year, it means that the clothes are not needed.
html At the beginning of the year, she hung the clothes on the hanger and lifted them to the front of the hanger when she wanted to wear.
This way, by the end of the year, you can see at a glance that the clothes hanging behind you have never worn in a year, so there is no need to keep them.
She will pack these clothes that she can’t wear and donate them.
On weekdays, children's toys are often scattered all over the ground.
Some toys have been touched by the children for a long time.
But when Casey wants to throw away these unused toys, the children will jump out and say, "Oh my god, this is my favorite toy, I like it."
Casey has also been criticized by some netizens for dealing with the extra toys of the children.
In this regard, Casey introduced a way to identify whether toys are redundant.
She will tell the children that if you play with this toy in the next week or two, then we can keep it.
However, in fact, the children are already tired of most of the toys at home and basically will not use them to play with them.
By donating toys, Casey and her husband showed the children the process of cleaning up the toys, hoping that the children can understand the benefits of this operation - " Clean the toy room less and spend more time playing board games with their family" .
"In the past, there were too many toys, and children didn't know what to play with.
Now they will hold a toy and play with it for several hours, fully exerting their imagination."
However, everyone always has some personal items that are more important to themselves.
Casey has prepared a box for each family to store "special" items.
" If the box is full, we must carefully check and determine which ones make sense and which are meaningless. ”
In short, after losing nearly 3,500 items,
Casey felt very happy, and cleaning and keeping the house clean became much easier.
I just don’t know whether this minimalist life can be persisted...
