It’s nice having books on the shelves, but I hadn’t picked up a physical book in ages. It was nice knowing I had all those clothes to choose from, but I wore the same couple of pairs of pants, the same suit jacket, and the same handful of shirts over and over again. As soon as I accepted that it was okay to discard things, the floodgates broke and my number of possessions dropped drastically. It took me a full four months to get rid of everything I no longer needed, but it was time well spent.
