Settle for Less: Life After Downsizing

By Rita Wilkins
The Downsizing Designer

From a very early age, we were told to never “settle for less” and that if you were not living “the life”, you were probably settling.

You were probably told that by your parents, your best friend, or maybe even your mentor, and I’m sure that they meant well when they said that to you.

But I want to push back on that statement and ask you to consider it differently, because…

What if you actually want less… not more?
What if you find joy in living a simpler, less cluttered life with the less stuff, less stress, and less overwhelm?
What if you want fewer “have to’s” and fewer “should’s”?

I get it!

“Don’t settle…”

Often said when talking about relationships, a job, or a career that you don’t love.
Often refers to having financial freedom or achieving other goals that you would like to accomplish.

But I’m talking about something completely different than that.

I’m talking about “Life after Downsizing”.

When you downsize and declutter… and when you live with less, you are in charge of your own life. Why be pressured into owning more, doing more?

That’s the trap that many of us baby boomers got ourselves into. (Myself included)

We believed the commercials, we bought into the idea more is more, bigger is better. Our “success” was on full display… or was that success?

But after you downsize and declutter, you discover something profoundly life changing.