The letters of a sentimental minimalist, day three: Taming of the Shoes
Shoes. The cant live with ‘em, can't live without ‘em kinda product that takes up a lot of space but really have no use besides carrying our feet around for the whole day. Sure, we say we need all these pairs, but do we really? What if we only had(gasp!) nine pairs of shoes? well, part of becoming a minimalist is finding the balance with a ‘less is more’ kinda attitude.
I've decided that part of my journey to becoming a minimalist is starting what is called a capsule wardrobe. Now you don't have to do this, but I want to, as this is my own version of minimalism. And while we're on this topic, I'm going to branch out a little and kind of go into what I mean by ‘my own version’.
Let's use the analogy of a seed. This seed will be our minimalism tree. now, on the day we plant our minimalism tree and decide to step into the world of minimalism, our seed grows one little root. Then, as I am doing, say we decide to do a capsule wardrobe. That produces another branching root on our seed. Slowly, as we go along this path, our seed grows into a shoot, which grows tall until it sprouts a branch, and then that branch spreads until were becoming a full-grown tree of minimalism. this tree symbolizes what we become when we go full-on minimalist. Our tree is beautiful, yet simple, like a well-trimmed and trained tree.in our minimalist grove, we are all different, depending on the track we've taken and how our roots have spread. This is what true minimalism is. Finding your own roots, and spreading them how you're comfortable. Now that I've just ‘branched’ out(haha, see what I did there), let's get back to the real beast we call shoes.
As I said earlier, I've decided to do a capsule wardrobe, and that means I will only own 9 shirts, five pairs of pants, five pairs of leggings(because I can't live without my leggings), 9 pairs of shoes, and five sweaters. Now, this is going to be a feat and act of God to widdle down my expansive shoe collection from 20 to nine, but I'm going to try!
I starting by categorizing them by work shoes, casual shoes, and classy shoes. Then, once I've done that, I'm going to go through each pile and sort out which ones I like and which ones I don't, then find out if they fit me or not. once I've done that, I look through the last shoes that are ‘standing’ in the win pile, and pick 9 out of those shoes. Basically, I'm playing the hunger games of shoes ;-)
Another thing I'm going to be doing for my entire capsule wardrobe is keeping a list in my bullet journal of all the things I need. Not want, need. IM going to go ‘no buy’ this year, as a goal for 2020. What that means is that I'm only buying things I need. New deodorant, need that! cute notebook and stickers, don't need that. I'm saving myself from impulse buying by only writing down the things I need. Bullet journals are great for recording things like that, as well as keeping record of things like daily habit trackers, mood trackers, diet trackers, and anything else you can think of that you would like to track and have a record of theyre brilliant.
So, anyway, i now need to actually get back to cleaning my shoes, as i took a break to write this for you... Have a great day and don't forget, if you can dream it, you can do it(Walt Disney said that, and that guy was a full-on genius.)
