Day 16 · Reflection

Own less, want less

Give away one thing you own but do not love, and notice a week later that you never missed it.

Everything you own asks something of you: space, cleaning, deciding, the low hum of 'I should sort that'. Researchers who followed families at home found that people who described their homes as cluttered showed a more stressed daily rhythm than those who did not. The point is wanting less, so that you need less, so that more of your life is yours. Start with one thing today: give it to someone who will use it. A week on, you will not have thought about it once.