Why did we accumulate so much in the first place?

Everything we have now, from small objects to our appartment is something that we wanted at some point.

We were once eager to buy the clothes that hang unworn in the back of our closet now. The jobs we now occupy once promised the start of a better life.

The simple truth is: we quickly get used to things.

When Tal Ben-Shahar, a popular Harvard lecturer in positive psychology, became Israeli national squash champion at the age of sixteen, he afterwards told people that the happiness lasted for only three hours.

In order to feel the same joy again, we always aim for more, but never arrive.

When you think about it, being a minimalist is the natural state of things. We come into this world with nothing and only start to amass objects during the course of our lives.

Then once we have all these objects they start weighing on us, caring for them takes up our time, storing them ta...