Minimalists are stressing you out!

The main problem with major trends like minimalism is that people that write and talk about it, always push it to the extreme.

They push the concept so far that, at some point, it just stops making sense!

The concept behind minimalism is simple. It is about reducing the amount of possessions you have to the strict minimum, in order to feel less stressed, in order to feel less anxious and to start regaining control of your life. Easier said than done obviously. We’re all so deeply influenced by marketing and consumerism that it makes it hard for most people to get rid of all these items that are supposed to make our life easier.

Marketing has been creating problems and solutions for decades. Companies develop a product and marketing is here to prove us how deeply we need that new tool to make our lives easier. The problem is that, we did have simple daily problems before. But those were solved pretty easily. So at some point, just so companies can make more and more profit, marketing has started to create new problems for us. And every time they did, they forced us to realise that we suffer from these new problems and that we needed to solve them asap by buying a product that we didn’t necessarily…