Minimalism is not the answer to domestic hardship, but learning to understand and accept limitations and live within our capacity is. Loving stuff is one of the most anti-consumerist positions we can embody, because consumer culture depends on our chronic dissatisfaction. Owning way less stuff that we love way more is how we access fulfillment and a sense of having enough. You can adopt this minimalist principle without adopting the whole lifestyle or puritanical vulnerabilities that frequently bypass class literacy. The point of decluttering is to remove the excess that prevents you from knowing the abundance AND prevents you from being in the grief of not having what you truly need to feel socially or spiritually well fed.

--Alyssa Allegretti