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The road to Simplicity

I’ve started my journey to Simplicity a while ago, influenced by this great post among others. I’ve also felt that too much time goes to take care of and repair broken stuff. So far this year the DVD player (2 years old), my Canon camera (3 years old), my old computer (3,5 years old) and the washing machine (2,5 years old) has broken down and gone to the trash can. My youngest daughter’s bike got run over by a truck (she was not on it) and had to be replaced. The cars (8 and 9 years old) breaks down a couple of times each year. The point is that a great deal of the weekend goes to fixing and buying new things and I start to get real tired off it. It also cost a lot of money that could be used for better purpose, like traveling.

So, the first step is to sell my 2:nd car, the one that I use to drive to work. Instead I take the train. It takes 30 minutes extra, but as I don´t have to drive, I can sleep almost all the way, 2*30 = 60 minutes each day. And I don’t have to spend any time at the weekend doing repairs!