The idea that there should be nothing superfluous at home has been gaining momentum in recent years. Minimalists advise to treat purchases more rationally and throw out everything superfluous with a firm hand. At the same time, there are many concepts of how to find this "extra". Someone suggests getting rid of everything that does not bring joy, someone suggests getting rid of something that has never been used in the last year.
In theory, the idea of leaving at home only pleasing things that are constantly used looks great. In practice, it is not always good. And here's why.
One of the most famous specialists in restoring order in the house of Marie Kondo advises periodically throwing out documents. Perhaps the legislation of Japan, where she comes from, allows this. But in many countries, it is better to keep papers and receipts. Even if they don't bring any joy.
First of all, this is due to the fact that the statute of limitations is basically Civil Code of the Russian Federation, Article 196 "General limitation period" three years. So if you want to defend yourself in court or someone decides to call you to account, it is better to have documents to prove your point of view. But there is a nuance: often the statute of limitations is considered from the moment the victim learns about the violation of his rights. It is difficult to predict when this will happen. So it's better not to throw anything away.
If it seems to you that storing documents means being unnecessarily reinsured, just ask friends of retirement age. Some of them are forced to raise archives from forty years ago to prove that they worked for five years in their youth. If this is not done, the pension may not be assigned. At the same time, it often turns out that the archive has burned down, the settlement no longer exists and all that.
Storing documents is important.
One day, perhaps, we will step into the world of a wonderful digital future. But now it is hardly worth relying on the fact that the state will save all your data without loss. It's better to keep a few folders at home that will never be useful to you than to get into trouble because you didn't have half of the A4 sheet with the seal on time.
The idea of getting rid of things that you don't use for a long time is generally good. But some of them do not reach the hand, not because you do not need them.
Imagine: you have a great down jacket for frosts or a warm wool sweater. But the winter was not frosty, and you spent all the time in lighter things. In fact, you haven't used these clothes for a year. But this does not mean that you will not need it in the future. And finding new suitable high-quality models is not so easy.
Supporters of the one-year principle often make the following argument: if you need something, you can always buy it.
Let's say you have a great plunger, but there were no blockages for a long time. Well, you can throw it out. But if the water stops flowing out of the bath, it is unlikely that you will wave your hand and think: I will order a plunger on the marketplace, in three days it will just come. No, you need it right now.
So really, anything can be bought. But there is not always time and money for this. And if the thing is not very dimensional and may be urgently needed, it is better to have it than not to have it.
Perhaps almost every person who browses the sites of free ads not purposefully, but for the sake of entertainment, experienced something like this: "Oh, my grandmother had the same lamp. How much-how much are they asking for it?" What is trash for you, for someone may be a desirable item.
Of course, this does not mean that it is necessary to keep all the junk inherited from relatives. But something is worth evaluating from the point of view of investment attractiveness and, perhaps, hiding for the future.
Let's say Grandma gives you a crystal salad bowl. And you have an interior in the style of minimalism and plates of clear geometric shapes, you don't need this at all. But how to refuse a loved one! And then you take it out for the New Year — that it just stands in the closet. And the next holiday. And let it not fit into your interior, but every time you look at it, you remember feasts at grandma's, and so it becomes warm inside. And now, on the morning of January 1, your children come to the refrigerator and take out this particular salad bowl from it, because the food in it seems tastier.
Don't underestimate the power of emotional attachment. Some things we don't need, don't fit anywhere, look tasteless from our point of view. But, having lost them, we can be desperately bored. Even if it seemed to us earlier that they did not cause us any feelings.
Throw out everything that you don't need right now and don't like, and then, if necessary, buy again — do you see the catch here? And he is that you have already had these things — good and working. But you are invited to get rid of them, and then spend money on them again. And again. At the same time, your "junk" is sent to landfills and decomposes there for years.
Minimalism in the possession of things is presented as a very eco-friendly concept. But it works when you don't buy too much. If you have to increase the volume of purchases due to the desire to store at home only what is often used, somewhere the idea turned the wrong way.
