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user-inactivated · 2608 days ago · link · · parent · post: Minimalism: another boring product wealthy people can buy
You cannot choose to “declutter” if you are already living in a sparse home you cannot afford to furnish. "The Poor can't afford MSRP, so they must not have anything! How sad!" is a sentiment well meaning but naive. It's clean cut. Easy to imagine, easy to relate to. It lacks creativity. "Don't step in that corner, the floor joists are rotted through. The City came by threatening to condem the house, but I painted some test swatches on the porch to show 'em how we're fixing it up... you see the new show HBO's got? I taped it. Hang on, I'll give you a copy." I've been in that house. Sometimes the walls aren't bare. Sometimes they're missing the plaster and covered in roach shit.