New Years Resolutions?
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@s.hackleman said in New Years Resolutions?:
@Dashrender said in New Years Resolutions?:
@scottalanmiller said in New Years Resolutions?:
@Dashrender said in New Years Resolutions?:
@s.hackleman said in New Years Resolutions?:
- Desire less. I have cut my possessions down by about 30-40% percent, and I want to keep going, less overhead, less stress, focus more on experiences and time spent with my daughter and less about buying and maintaining things.
I love this one. While I don't think I really want to cull my desire, I've just exercised more self control and purchased less.
I really do need to start the process of getting rid of my possessions, and then not buying more.
Same here, last two years we've been eliminating "stuff" as much as possible. Doing a huge round of eliminations today, in fact. We are attempting to make ourselves able to completely live out of suitcases. If it can't be packed, we can't own it.
Yeah I've considered that approach, but that might be to extreme for me.
Have you considered a packing party. I have wanted too, but the wife and kid are not on board. Basically you pack 100% of everything you own into you garage in boxes. Then you live for 6 months by only bringing the things you honesly need back into the home. After 6 months, you have a garage sale, then haul the rest to a donation location.
I do that EVERY six months. I literally live out of suitcases.
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@NerdyDad said in New Years Resolutions?:
@s.hackleman said in New Years Resolutions?:
@Dashrender said in New Years Resolutions?:
@s.hackleman said in New Years Resolutions?:
- Desire less. I have cut my possessions down by about 30-40% percent, and I want to keep going, less overhead, less stress, focus more on experiences and time spent with my daughter and less about buying and maintaining things.
I love this one. While I don't think I really want to cull my desire, I've just exercised more self control and purchased less.
I really do need to start the process of getting rid of my possessions, and then not buying more.
Check out the Minimalist I have slowly moved towards the idea of my version of minimalism and I am much happier.
A little extreme for me too. I like to be prepared but purposefully. I don't need everything and the kitchen sink. I just need what I have to at least get me homebase so that I can get more supplies, be secure, and live somewhat comfortably.
I haven't so much spent less but more have directed my wants to learning more and securing myself. Whether it is over the Internet, financially, or in case of natural disasters.
Only things that we try to keep beyond the "luggage limits" are...
- Nostalgic items that we keep in storage
- Toys for the kids that go through a rotation
- Homeschool material for the kids, also in a travel rotation
- Warm weather / cold weather clothing. We only live with one set at a time, normally. Since we move between cold European and hot Central American worlds, we need two whole wardrobe sets.
- Office setup in our more stable locations. Having a computer monitor is great when there is a chance to have one. That's one thing I covet when traveling light.
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@NerdyDad said in New Years Resolutions?:
@s.hackleman said in New Years Resolutions?:
@Dashrender said in New Years Resolutions?:
@s.hackleman said in New Years Resolutions?:
- Desire less. I have cut my possessions down by about 30-40% percent, and I want to keep going, less overhead, less stress, focus more on experiences and time spent with my daughter and less about buying and maintaining things.
I love this one. While I don't think I really want to cull my desire, I've just exercised more self control and purchased less.
I really do need to start the process of getting rid of my possessions, and then not buying more.
Check out the Minimalist I have slowly moved towards the idea of my version of minimalism and I am much happier.
A little extreme for me too. I like to be prepared but purposefully. I don't need everything and the kitchen sink. I just need what I have to at least get me homebase so that I can get more supplies, be secure, and live somewhat comfortably.
I haven't so much spent less but more have directed my wants to learning more and securing myself. Whether it is over the Internet, financially, or in case of natural disasters.
For me, living though a natural disasters (Joplin, Mo Tornado close to a direct hit) that changed me. I realized that my whole home could be blown away, and I wouldn't care. Honestly it would have been less paperwork. So for me, I maintain 1 bug out bag that my family can live on for 72 hours, a change of clothes, and shelter. It adds value for me, so I keep it. It dual purposes because I enjoy backpacking so most of the gear is interchangeable. If it is more than 1 bag that I can grab and run with, it is excess.
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@s.hackleman said in New Years Resolutions?:
@Dashrender said in New Years Resolutions?:
@scottalanmiller said in New Years Resolutions?:
@Dashrender said in New Years Resolutions?:
@s.hackleman said in New Years Resolutions?:
- Desire less. I have cut my possessions down by about 30-40% percent, and I want to keep going, less overhead, less stress, focus more on experiences and time spent with my daughter and less about buying and maintaining things.
I love this one. While I don't think I really want to cull my desire, I've just exercised more self control and purchased less.
I really do need to start the process of getting rid of my possessions, and then not buying more.
Same here, last two years we've been eliminating "stuff" as much as possible. Doing a huge round of eliminations today, in fact. We are attempting to make ourselves able to completely live out of suitcases. If it can't be packed, we can't own it.
Yeah I've considered that approach, but that might be to extreme for me.
Have you considered a packing party. I have wanted too, but the wife and kid are not on board. Basically you pack 100% of everything you own into you garage in boxes. Then you live for 6 months by only bringing the things you honesly need back into the home. After 6 months, you have a garage sale, then haul the rest to a donation location.
LOL - I'm a very avid collector of Star Wars and other SciFi things. I know, for example, I could pack up my entire basement and i wouldn't look at it for years. But there is value there, I would never recover in a garage sale. It's really more a matter of just chipping away at it, between local for sale groups and ebay I could move a good amount of it.
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@scottalanmiller said in New Years Resolutions?:
@s.hackleman said in New Years Resolutions?:
@Dashrender said in New Years Resolutions?:
@scottalanmiller said in New Years Resolutions?:
@Dashrender said in New Years Resolutions?:
@s.hackleman said in New Years Resolutions?:
- Desire less. I have cut my possessions down by about 30-40% percent, and I want to keep going, less overhead, less stress, focus more on experiences and time spent with my daughter and less about buying and maintaining things.
I love this one. While I don't think I really want to cull my desire, I've just exercised more self control and purchased less.
I really do need to start the process of getting rid of my possessions, and then not buying more.
Same here, last two years we've been eliminating "stuff" as much as possible. Doing a huge round of eliminations today, in fact. We are attempting to make ourselves able to completely live out of suitcases. If it can't be packed, we can't own it.
Yeah I've considered that approach, but that might be to extreme for me.
Have you considered a packing party. I have wanted too, but the wife and kid are not on board. Basically you pack 100% of everything you own into you garage in boxes. Then you live for 6 months by only bringing the things you honesly need back into the home. After 6 months, you have a garage sale, then haul the rest to a donation location.
I do that EVERY six months. I literally live out of suitcases.
Sure, but you're a nomad, you don't have a lot of choice, at least not without spending a LOT more money to move it with you or send it to storage.
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@scottalanmiller said in New Years Resolutions?:
- Office setup in our more stable locations. Having a computer monitor is great when there is a chance to have one. That's one thing I covet when traveling light.
AMEN!
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@Dashrender said in New Years Resolutions?:
@scottalanmiller said in New Years Resolutions?:
- Office setup in our more stable locations. Having a computer monitor is great when there is a chance to have one. That's one thing I covet when traveling light.
AMEN!
I hope to have one added in Moldova and maybe Panama this year.
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@scottalanmiller said in New Years Resolutions?:
@Dashrender said in New Years Resolutions?:
@scottalanmiller said in New Years Resolutions?:
- Office setup in our more stable locations. Having a computer monitor is great when there is a chance to have one. That's one thing I covet when traveling light.
AMEN!
I hope to have one added in Moldova and maybe Panama this year.
If I was a mobile worker like you, I would consider this so critical I would just buy one where ever I end up, if I'm going to be there for a month or more. Less than a month, I'll probably suffer with the laptop.
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One thing that I hate is that stupid things like tax forms, records, receipts and such that you need to keep around are easily as much as my total life possessions at this point. Where are you supposed to keep all of that stuff.
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@Dashrender said in New Years Resolutions?:
@scottalanmiller said in New Years Resolutions?:
@Dashrender said in New Years Resolutions?:
@scottalanmiller said in New Years Resolutions?:
- Office setup in our more stable locations. Having a computer monitor is great when there is a chance to have one. That's one thing I covet when traveling light.
AMEN!
I hope to have one added in Moldova and maybe Panama this year.
If I was a mobile worker like you, I would consider this so critical I would just buy one where ever I end up, if I'm going to be there for a month or more. Less than a month, I'll probably suffer with the laptop.
I'm going to seriously talk to our rental people in Romania this year about using some storage there long term. They have a mostly empty barn behind our house that would work fine.
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@scottalanmiller said in New Years Resolutions?:
One thing that I hate is that stupid things like tax forms, records, receipts and such that you need to keep around are easily as much as my total life possessions at this point. Where are you supposed to keep all of that stuff.
In the cloud?
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@scottalanmiller said in New Years Resolutions?:
One thing that I hate is that stupid things like tax forms, records, receipts and such that you need to keep around are easily as much as my total life possessions at this point. Where are you supposed to keep all of that stuff.
Nextcloud on a vultr or DO server. Just saying.
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@Danp said in New Years Resolutions?:
@scottalanmiller said in New Years Resolutions?:
One thing that I hate is that stupid things like tax forms, records, receipts and such that you need to keep around are easily as much as my total life possessions at this point. Where are you supposed to keep all of that stuff.
In the cloud?
It's paper.
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@scottalanmiller said in New Years Resolutions?:
@Danp said in New Years Resolutions?:
@scottalanmiller said in New Years Resolutions?:
One thing that I hate is that stupid things like tax forms, records, receipts and such that you need to keep around are easily as much as my total life possessions at this point. Where are you supposed to keep all of that stuff.
In the cloud?
It's paper.
I was thinking that a portable scanner should be on your travel list. The problem you probably run into is the need to print.
Of course, the scanner can be replaced by pictures from your phone in a lot of cases.
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@scottalanmiller said in New Years Resolutions?:
@Danp said in New Years Resolutions?:
@scottalanmiller said in New Years Resolutions?:
One thing that I hate is that stupid things like tax forms, records, receipts and such that you need to keep around are easily as much as my total life possessions at this point. Where are you supposed to keep all of that stuff.
In the cloud?
It's paper.
You carry an iPhone. You can get something like ScanBot and scan it as a PDF. Or use the NextCloud app and send documents as a picture to your hosted solution. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nextcloud/id1125420102?mt=8
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My New Years Resolution.... is to not make any New Years resolutions!
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In previous years I have made many resolutions but this year I am just going to focus on just one goal - Getting Healthy.
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@dafyre said in New Years Resolutions?:
My New Years Resolution.... is to not make any New Years resolutions!
But can you stick to it?
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3840*2160
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@scottalanmiller said in New Years Resolutions?:
@Danp said in New Years Resolutions?:
@scottalanmiller said in New Years Resolutions?:
One thing that I hate is that stupid things like tax forms, records, receipts and such that you need to keep around are easily as much as my total life possessions at this point. Where are you supposed to keep all of that stuff.
In the cloud?
It's paper.
So digitize it silly! Camscanner + Google Photos auto backup on my phone is a super easy way to keep the things around without having to tote the actual paper about. Should be easily doable, keeping everything sorted is the hard part unless you run a separate account just for records.
