So there are many occasion people give gifts, Christmas, Thanksgiving, Birthdays, โฆ etc.
For instance:
- Food: you can use it pretty quickly
- Flowers: doesnโt last too long
- Perfume: take a lot of space for a month or two
- Clothes: what if you donโt life them? (eg: a t-shirt, a scarf, โฆ)
- Random stuff: as part of the nomadic life, we want to be minimalist and canโt keep too much stuff
I would say there is short-term, middle-term and long-term goods. And useful / useless / special goods.
So we have a problem, we donโt have infinite storage space (either out of the bag in containers or inside bags).
Attacking the source of the problem:
- Asking people to give mostly short-term goods, useful middle-term/long-term goods (eg: from a wishlist for instance)
- Asking for no physical gifts
- Not going / celebrating those occasions
- Something else?
I think itโs pretty hard to prevent people from giving unwanted gifts (rejecting a gift is an huge cultural mistake).
Attacking the effects of the problem:
- Giving gifts to somebody else
- Re-selling gifts
- Taking a photo of it and throwing it away
- Shipping them to some stockage container company
- Something else?
I personally think thatโs one of the biggest thing against minimalism, and ultimately against the freedom of moving quickly.
So, what you you do?