If you've felt stressed and short on time lately, maybe your house is to blame - at least that's what Joshua Becker at Becoming Minimalist believes.
After visiting his parents' new downsized home, he sat down with his mom to figure out why they were so much happier living in less square footage. She came up with 12 reasons. Here are some of our faves:
Less time spent cleaning. 'Nuf said.
Less expensive. Smaller homes are less expensive to purchase and less expensive to keep (mortgage, insurance, taxes, heating, cooling, electricity, etc.).
More time. Many of the benefits above (less cleaning, less maintaining, mental freedom) result in the freeing up of our schedule to pursue the things in life that really matter - whatever you want that to be.
Less temptation to accumulate. If you don't have any room in your house for that new treadmill, you?ll be less tempted to buy it in the first place (no offense to those of you who own a treadmill? and actually use it).
Wider market to sell. By its very definition, a smaller, more affordable house is affordable to a larger percentage of the population than a more expensive, less affordable one.
Have you downsized recently? What do you love most (or least) about your new smaller home?
