Dejunk Yourself Week Eight: How to Stop the Re-Buy Impulse

Don't undo all your hard work

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De-junk yourself course directory

• Week one: Learn from my mother

• Week two: A capsule wardrobe without the capsule

• Week three: Dejunking the best room in the house (the kitchen)

• Week four: Empty the drawers

• Week five: Mid-course mindset

• Week six: Misc spaces

• Week seven: Kids = crap

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Spend enough time in the minimalism space and you’ll quickly learn one of the key pushbacks to the movement:

What if I get rid of all my stuff only to find I have to re-buy it all?

This problem is even more pertinent if you’re not living on a big salary. Some people can’t afford to jettison everything in an “I’ll just re-buy it if I have to” kinda way.

Society has done a good job of convincing us empty spaces should be filled. Clear closets are an excuse to go shopping. Barren bookshelves? Buy more books.

Before you know it, you’re back where you started with a house full of clutter, or you’ve gone broke - or both. So you clutch your clutter, unwilling to part with it just in case you may need it in the future, or for fear that you will only want to re-fill the space.

I’ve been there.

So what do you do?

That’s what week eight - the final week in our Dejunk Yourself course - is all about.