RE: Becoming minimalist: when having fewer possessions means living a better life
Stilt,
It is minimalism not nothing-ism. I have in the past lived a life free of the excesses and found that feeling you might get when you BackPack. All you "need" is with you and you are self sufficient. It becomes necessary to improvise from time to time using the things yu carry, the things around you and the inventive spirit that lives in the Human species - too seldom given free reign. When my wife and I hop in the RV our world narrows down to those things that support us and when a system fails the pioneer spirit is loosed to everyone's gratitude.