A minimalist Decision Making

 It’s been quite while since I became a minimalist. 

Witnessing how far I’ve become.

Actually I’m really proud of myself, 

Comparing my new minimalist self to my old-self that full of stuff that makes me unhappy, now I am much more lighter and happier.

It’s been the whole journey, and long process.

Quite sometimes ago I decided to buy a new hand bag, because my current handbag is 7 years old and it has some sign that the bag is coming to and end 😂.

That black Anello Brand Bag that you will always see in my picture was a gift from my Sister back in August 2016. So this exact month and year will be the 7th years anniversary.

The most interesting thing since I decided that I will become a minimalist, I never buy any handbag for the whole 7 years. 

Wow, I’m able to do that. Yes I do. 

With a lot of exercise in this journey, now it’s easier to shut down all the advertisements that flashing through your eyes.

Back to the handbag topic..

While walking through Italian street during my “short holiday”, I have one exact mission. To buy a new Italian handbag before leaving this country (because they are so good in craftsmanship for years so I need to buy one from Italy).

Being minimalist, people have some miss conception. People think we didn’t own stuff, we do. People think we will look for the cheapest, but this is absolutely not correct.

According to my own minimalist journey, as minimalist you need to look over quality than quantity. You need to imagine yourself using the same stuff for 5 years. You can’t get tired of it, when you see things you want to buy you have to have this sparks “I want to use it, now!” “I can see using it with different occasions” “I can see myself using it in 5 years”. When you don’t have that sparks, personally I will just drop that stuff. I will donate it if just incase with my impulsiveness I brought it (and yes, I also made bad decisions). When I have new stuff I didn’t use it immediately usually after passing 2 months I will dropped that stuff, because 2 months is the limit, I don’t have that sparks, so basically I don’t need it.

After working hard and saving quite sometimes, I desperately need to find a bag. But it was not easy. I need to have that sparks. I have some criteria in my mind but durability is number one and also it needs to have a zipper, can hold stuff (because most of the European handbag just cute but some of them can’t even hold your phone 😌😂), color neutral so I can use it with any outfit and travel friendly. I tried really hard to look in the website, in the catalogue basically everywhere.. but its hard.

Buying stuff as minimalist is hard. To decide which one is the hardest.

I don’t know why in Europe they usually didn’t have zipper for the leather handbag. Europe is not that save (I mean I almost got robbed so many times) why you don’t put zipper in the handbag that’s didn’t make sense😌😌.

With the one month in Italy reaching its limit, I made decisions maybe I just buy one from any brand that exist in this world, not an Italian one.