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TRAVEL | MINIMALISM | DOWNSIZE
How to Rid Yourself of Stuff and Finally Get Travelling
It’s not as difficult as you may think.
Having been location independent and nomadic now for over five years makes it almost difficult to try and remember the person that I was before we left Canada.
I was a typical normal citizen of the North American grind and was trying my hardest to fit into society's standards. I bought a house, filled it with a ton of stuff, had businesses, worked my but off, and I was always trying to show everyone just how BUSY I was.
Ya, that’s it!
I now realize that in one word, I can sum up my life before taking this leap: BUSY! I worked so hard at demonstrating my busyness, that I was likely on the brink of burnout when the decision to do this, finally rescued me from the insanity.
I really felt like I was trying as hard as I possibly could, but I still never felt like I was getting anywhere. Sure, on the outside everything looked fine. I had a house and all those THINGS. Things we are supposed to have in our society. But to go with the things, I also had a mortgage, car payments, insurance payments, and a pile of credit card debt to top it all off. Life was a constant circus of working hard so that I could…
