Amy Revell

He'd retired.

He was a bit bored.

And so that was a great investment for us.

But we wouldn't have been able to do that if we just had a whole lot of stuff and we were spending our time and our money just buying more and more and more because we wouldn't have that financial freedom.

And that financial freedom can look like paying a little bit more off your mortgage each week rather than wandering around the shops looking for things.

You might save money when you're more intentional around your clothes.

Australians, Americans, the Western world spend so much money on clothes they will not wear, they do not need, they do not like, end up in landfill.

I mean, I could do, I probably will do a couple of episodes about that.

There's a few, if you go back into our back catalog, I'll put some links in the show notes that I've already done around like clothing and textile waste.

But the benefits are you save so much money.

When you've got less stuff, you can find what you need.

So if I'm going to a birthday party and you've got a cupboard that you might have bought some candles or you might have bought different things over the years that you're like, actually, that's on special and it's really lovely.

I can find that.

Whereas lots of my clients are like, I know that I've got a cupboard somewhere of presents that I bought and then they will rebuy things because they can't find the things.

And sometimes they'll buy clothes because they couldn't find what they needed or they'll buy toys because they forgot that they had one or they'll buy kitchen appliances forgetting that there's one at the back of the cupboard.

Capitalism does save you money in so, so many ways.

And I find it exciting because when you've got all those savings, you get a bit more financial freedom and financial freedom is empowering.

It allows you to make decisions, it allows you to be not confined to just what the money will allow you to do, but you get to be back in charge, which is ultimately what we're doing when we're reducing our clutter anyway.

The next thing is the motivation of having more time and then the outcome of having more time.

So this is one of the quotes from one of the participants in this study.