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After meditation, cleaning the microbiota and fasting, the trend of purification continues to sweep over a repentant West with stuffed dumps, and whose motto was on a t-shirt made in China: Shop till you drop! Even the Chinese no longer want our waste, that is to say.
Artists have always outstripped the herd in this area, as the material ascetic movement embraces spirituality, ecology, personal finance, pure and simple freedom, the refusal to be a slave.
We are witnessing in a thousand ways a real quin toe, thumbing your nose at a system that keeps bringing us growth in the throat and GDP by the other end, while juggling with a rate of 170% debt. We are crumbling under our babies.
Traveling light or finding the essentials of the first student apartment, the stripped hotel room or the monastic lodge, is increasingly taking the form of a fantasy among baby boomers who break house and want cast off. Even among the youngest, some do not want. and cannot, sink into the material madness of their parents.
And that has nothing to do with voluntary simplicity. Exit the ten-function multicooker, the waffle maker with remote control handle and the raclette oven that is dusted once a year.
Some entertain communist fantasies of refreshing dumps where these household objects, including the vacuum cleaner and the ice-cream maker, could be used for all as books in the library.
It is perhaps no coincidence that the book Do You Really Need It by Pierre-Yves McSween, has been a bestseller. That responds to the zeitgeist in a relevant way.
The cool accountant is not the only one talking to us about negative cumulation. The disciples of Marie Kondo (The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing) learned to let go of ballast through their works inspired by Japanese tradition.
Yes, our physical environment influences our psyche. And tidying up coaches are now the shrinks at home.
Simplicity is the ultimate refinement
– Leonardo DeVinci
A mental household
Photographer Dominique Lafond, 39, started her spartan process several years ago. She is currently disposing of an 830 square foot condo in southwest Montreal because she does not use the terrace and does not have a car to put in the garage. She no longer wants to buy, has shed anything that weighed her down, borrows her books and lives as if she were in a hotel.
At first, it is psychologically soothing to sort, keep or dispose of objects. After that, it becomes physical by living in a more ventilated environment. We know where everything is.
Her friends are warned, Dominique does not want to receive gifts, unless it is an experience or a product that is consumed. Keeping objects comes with a responsibility. She does not have a TV and finds everything online and does not see ads all the time.
The same goes for writer Brigitte Pilote, 52, in a non-cohabiting couple and whose children have left the nest. From childhood, she ardently wanted to live in a refined environment. White, empty. Cluttered. No luck, Brigitte grew up in a normal family of six during the flamboyant 1970s and overdosed on orange and olive green. She often complained about lack of order and visual overload. Her mother replied that a family home is not a museum. She was right, but that didn’t solve her discomfort.
Today, Brigitte has no frames on her walls, sleeps on a mattress on the floor, has no TV, very few dishes, she likes white, colorless cushions and shades of beige. It would kill the cockroach to many, but I love it. Her physical environment is in perfect harmony with her lifestyle at this time of her existence. Ripe for Zen.
If material wealth were the criteria of happiness, we should be 100 times or even 1000 times happier than our ancestors
– Masuno Shunmyo
Death cleaning
There is a called The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning, by Margareta Magnusson, a painter who has done this exercise several times, the delicate art of Swedish premortal cleaning. All that is Scandinavian seems to send us back to a refined style of chalet where each object has demonstrated its necessity.
The octogenarian author encourages baby boomers to start their winter cleaning, a task that will take them more than a year according to her estimates. History of not leaving to the next generation the chore of liquidating everything, Margareta explains to us where to start, how to proceed.
Aging is certainly not for the weak. That’s why you shouldn’t wait to start streamlining, warns the ultimate housekeeping coach. It could also be the name of an IKEA bookcase to be converted into a coffin, a dual use that designers have already considered. There is no denying that the next few years will enrich antique dealers, second-hand dealers, charities, auctioneers and Kijiji.
Some people almost lost their minds in cleaning up and throwing away the objects of a hoarse father or mother with this compulsive buildup.
