You may be certified simple - in a good way - if you engage in a variety of actions that establish your credentials as a serious simplitista.
This certification honours a lifestyle that values simplicity, sustainability, and mindfulness.
For example, if you would rather stick needles in your eyes than go shopping, you may be certifiably simple.
Other signs to watch out for are if you
- grow some of your own food,
- have a composting system,
- have fewer possessions as the years go by,
- try to acquire things you need in the following order,
Borrow, barter, rent if applicable, find for free, buy used, buy new on sale, and last resort, buy new full price,
- interrupt a walk to pick up rubber bands and other useful things,
- spend more time in nature than your average bear,
- walk, bike, roll, or use public transportation when possible instead of drive,
- repair and mend clothes,
- make your own cleaning products,
- cook your food from scratch, or
- hope to have your personal possessions down to what can fit in a shoebox by the time you leave this materialistic world,
you may be certifiably simple… in a good way.
A very good way.
Let us know how simplicity manifests in your life in a comment below.
I am certifiably simple. I've never been much of a consumer but I'm even less of one now. I grow a lot of our food or buy from local farmers or markets. I cook from scratch. I have a large pantry with what we regularly eat and use so I avoid high prices and shopping as much as I can. I do need to get a composting system in place. Thanks for that reminder.
ReplyDeleteHi Gregg, I just want to say I read and love all your posts. But I don't always know how to say something... but I feel supported by you in how I live my life and minimalize consumption/consumerism, even though in a city that works out in a different way than for you. Thank you for being a kindred soul.
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