In Goodbye, Things, Fumio Sasaki shares the lessons he learned by going minimalist. now extreme minimalist Fumio Sasaki looks set to take the Kondo crown with his book Goodbye, Things * Daily Mail * A best-seller in Japan, this book uncovers why we want to own more than we need, what this mentality does to our wellbeing and how we can live better by owning less * Parade *ĭecluttering has become the holy grail of modern lifestyle in recent years. Take your spring cleaning to the next level with Goodbye, Things by Fumio Sasaki. Sasaki inhabits the radical wing of the Japanese decluttering movement, being a self-described "minimalist" whose method makes Kondo look demurely centrist by comparison - Richard Lloyd Parry * The Times * Our things are like roommates, except we pay their rentġ8.Meet the new king of decluttering. It’s easier to revisit your memories once you go digitalġ6. Take photos of the items that are tough to part withġ5. Differentiate between things you want and things you needġ4. Discard it if you have it for the sake of appearanceġ3. Get rid of it if you haven’t used it in a yearġ2. Minimize anything you have in multiplesġ1. Start with things that are clearly junkġ0. There isn’t a single item you’ll regret throwing awayĩ. There are limits to the capacity of your brain, your energy, and your timeĨ. Minimizing is difficult, but it’s not impossibleĦ. Ask yourself why you can’t part with your thingsĥ. When you discard something, you gain more than you loseĤ. Discard the preconception that you can’t discard your thingsģ. In ‘ Goodbye, Things‘ Sasaski delineates some of the principles that can aid us in embracing minimalist living:ġ. As a sensibility of the everyday and a philosophy of life, it is antithetical to the ‘To Buy is To Be’ diktat of the late capitalist enterprise, and resistance, as we know, is never futile. This is where people like editor Fumio Sasaki decided to reclaim their sense of self and life, by embracing minimalism and removing all Things that are non-essential to everyday functional living.
That DVD, that sweatshirt and dress, those shoes, these books, that decor and furniture, this Nintendo, those limited editions, that half price store steal, and so on and so forth, till Things define us to a point where we actually find it hard, or next to impossible to let go off them, lest we become ‘lesser’ in the process. So, we have populated our rooms, homes and houses with Things – Things that are not necessarily of any utility or functionality any more, just more of storing, hoarding, and bringing in more Things to add to what is already there. How often have you gotten about clearing the clutter in your life? Not very frequently I am sure and whenever you have, you would have probably dug up, re-discovered, discovered Things that you have accumulated over years and maybe decades, giving in to our seemingly endless patterns of consumption – relentless and perpetual.
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