The Minimalist community presents It's More or Less the Best, a curation compilation highlighting some outstanding blogs published over the past week.

These selected authors shared their personal stories and views on different aspects of their minimalist lifestyle, giving some insight into what the style of living involves.

This compilation is presented to help shine the spotlight on the selected posts, with the hope that you will take a look at them in case you missed any.

Outstanding Minimalists Blogs in no particular order.

Saying Goodbye to Old Stuff and Toxic Memories

✨"To detach means to cut off all emotional connection to an entity. The reason one might feel stuck with some material things is because they are still attached to them. So snipping off any emotional ties that one might have would be a great strategy." @zitalove

Sitting With The Bag

✨"As all of us are different, we have different ways of letting go of our physical and emotional baggage. But then there are some of us, especially emotionally that don’t know how to let go of this baggage and maybe even if they knew, wouldn’t want to let go of it, no matter how toxic it is, for a lot of reasons." @jhymi

The chains of doubt and pride ⛓️🔗

✨"Who we are is partly a reflection of our childhood, of the upbringing we had. The attitudes and patterns of our parents, what they showed us, had and has a very big influence on us. Everything we saw was stored in the unconscious and years later they somehow direct the conscious. And sometimes they are things that overcome us because they even control us without us realizing it." @purpleglitter

Finding Tension between Lightness & Weight

✨"It does feel heavy just to exist. There are bills to pay, sick parents to tend to, children to worry about, and the anxiety of living in 2024. There are wars and ageing presidents, climate change and overpopulation, environmental devastation and women being murdered by their partners. If I want to get maudlin, there's a looming sense we're all going to die soon. " @riverflows

The not so easy Journey

✨"When I decided to take the bold step of letting go of the two traumatic events I had witnessed, I had to first tell myself that it was never going to be a smooth ride, saying that I am letting go of that trauma today and being brave the next day was just totally foolishness and self-deceit on my part. " @ibbtammy

Dancing with the green-eyed monster

✨"To give genuine words of comfort and advice, it has to come from a place of honest introspection and without bias. To find the best ways to have the right conversation with my friend, I had to ask myself a very important question: "How would I navigate this feeling and let go of the pain of losing an opportunity if I were in this exact situation?" @olujay

Wither No More...

✨"It's okay to feel hurt or heartbroken when the least expected tragedy strikes, but still, it doesn't justify our reason to sit or wallow in that experience for the rest of our lives. I have been through this, and there is no gain whatsoever in holding onto that physical or emotional baggage you might be struggling with." @george-dee

The everlasting shoe

✨"The shoe fits in properly to all my wears and that's because it looks simple and smart, coupled with the fact that it's all-around black. It's a leather shoe and I use it to match up with casual dresses too and that's because it doesn't have the all-time office look " @kingsleyy

Travelling Light: Minimalist Psychology

✨"One can only move on lightly, as if you're weighed down by the past, you still exist there. To travel light is to find a lightness of being. It's a transitional journey from regret, heartbreak and pain to something else" @riverflows

Dressing to the Nines for People Who Can't Count

✨"You look your best in the clothes you feel your best in. I feel my best in loose clothes. In clothes that didn't cost a fortune and are ideally thrifted because I'm clumsy and trip or get it caught under me and tear it or whatever other freak accident. " @honeydue

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🔸 If possible we recommend that authors try to use original photos taken by you. Photos count toward the possibility of your post being curated.

🔸 Just a reminder that the weekly #KISS Blog Ideas is presented with ideas on topics to write about and to help you to structure your blogs, they are not meant to be questionnaires for you to list information and publish.

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