All Roads Lead to Minimalism
I’ve always been very minimalist, but going into 2025, I feel like I NEED to reduce. This past weekend, I actually spent an entire day going through my closet, every drawer, every cabinet, and throwing away every single thing that I do not need or want to use. For instance, in my kitchen, I had so many plates and excessive cups and things and all this junk. That’s just piling up that I don’t use at all. All I need is a wooden bowl, a wooden plate, a wooden cutting board, and some wooden chopsticks, and a wooden spoon. I really like the products from Muji.
In terms of unused camera equipment, maybe it’s best to just gift your old cameras to another photographer who will use it and let them run with it.
I know that when I travel, all I need is a backpack, with very minimal items. I typically pack mostly clothes, just because I don’t want to have to do laundry too much when travelling for long periods of time, but other than that, I pretty much only need my camera and iPad. My next step is to actually go through all of my clothes and just start getting rid of them, or even giving some of my old gym clothes to a friend that will actually start hitting the gym and use them.
I will be completely honest, the reason why I’m starting to stack up trash bags and trash bags, honestly I think I did like 15 to 20 trash bags this weekend, is because I can’t mentally focus on culling and editing through my photographs, knowing that there’s all this shit in drawers and cubbies in my house. It may sound crazy or it doesn’t correlate at all, but it just bothers me. I hate having things, junk, just pile up.
The path to reduction is the path to ultimate freedom. Going into 2025, my goal is to reduce, reduce, reduce, as much as humanly possible.