Your apartment might be planning to perform a coup d’état right now. That IKEA box in the corner is doing its best to stage an overthrow. We have all done this – we have stocked ourselves up with low-quality furniture because it is who we are. However, wealth has nothing to do with the amount of crap you have at your place.
Wealth is curating. The message here is purchasing an expensive chair to support your back. We turn our apartments into storage facilities for bad decisions of 2018. What about my Le Creuset Dutch Oven? It can cost a monthly worth of groceries but it will outlive both me and my future great-grandchildren. Here is how to make your cast-iron generational wealth.
Furniture on fast purchases is another scam that ensures your constant buying of new stuff and paying the credit card bills. You purchase some particleboard desk on Wayfair. It is unstable each time you try to write an email. Two years later, it gets dumped in the nearest dump. You spend much more buying replacements than once buying Herman Miller.
High initial investments are annoying but math is working in a long term perspective. Patagonia jacket will protect you for several years from the city winter frosts. While the jacket of fast-fashion brand will come apart in spring time. In such case, you save money not buying the same stuff twice.
It is not about being the minimalist snob here. It is all about respect of your time and your living space. There is less cleaning if you have less things. You have no better thing to do during the weekend besides hiking because there is nothing to sort out in your wardrobe. If your head is clear, your apartment is clean too.
At first, eliminate the things you do not need. Do you really need three blenders? Get rid of all the old stuff you do not use anymore and sell it on eBay. Take the money and buy one superb chef’s knife instead. Your kitchen will turn into oasis instead of jungle.
Never fill your apartment with useless junk. Anything you keep should be both practical and fun. Otherwise, you have a burden. Let go.