I have a 3 year old at home. I could limit his toys to a minimum which would possibly help him appreciate the few toys he still had. On the flip side, he could turn into one of those crazy kids that likes to organize his M&Ms by color.
Haha, I have a two year old. It never looks really tidy, because his toys spread everywhere.
But I also decluttered things he does not use at all.
To be a minimalist I think you gotta take small simple steps, like de-cluttering your mind and just doing one room at a time. What about your bank accounts? Is it important to minimize your assets and savings?
That's what I thought too, small steps, one room at a time, etc. and it did not work for me.
Marie Kondo has another view on that and by now it also makes more sense for me. She does not go by location (e.g. a room), but by category. And you have got to declutter everything of one category in one step.
She made a good talk about it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS9tarmtYfs(don't watch the google talk, the translator is so bad)
The benefit is that it actually helps to keep the things at the convenient point stage. Once you are actually there, you think a lot about what you purchase.
I am not entirely there yet, but I am with my wardrobe.
The biggest hurdle was to get myself into the right mindset. The problem for me is the feel of guilt for throwing stuff away. But you can look at it differently. If you have things that you don't worship and don't even use, it would be egoistic to keep them instead of e.g. gifting them.
I try to gift as much as possible from the stuff that I don't want to keep anymore. Especially the books. I cannot throw away books.
