WHAT HAPPENED TO THE YEAR OF LESS STUFF? RECAP, FINAL NUMBERS, AND TAKEAWAYS | AND FEELINGS LOL
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1. when buying, be realistic about what I will continue to love. This requires knowing oneself.
2. buy high-quality stuff so that it doesn’t get worn out quickly
3. take good care of it (gentle cleaning, folding, de-pilling) and being ok with the time this takes
4. USE UP perishable self-care products and don’t own more than I can use at any given time
5. fight the urge to lose interest in something or devalue it when it’s no longer new
6. make friends with wearing and use the same stuff over and over again
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My favorite thing is when you hold Sadie like a fish
I tried to hold my cat like this and he was not having it 😂
@@Anna-pd6dc I hold my cat like if he was Simba in the presentation epic scene 🤣🤣
MINE TOO.
What a catch!
@@anotherlemontree My friend!!!!! 🥰💖🥰 Just noticed you in the comments (cat comments, YOU know!!) and wanted to say Hi. 😻💗😻
A tip for not losing interest: give everything a season. I realize this with my clothes & shoes - we have 4 seasons here, so I get excited to wear my sandals every summer, even though they are the same sandals I have worn for the last 3 summers. I also get so excited to see my Christmas decor after 11 months, but the end of the month of seeing it everyday, I start to think about what pieces I could add the collection. With makeup-its all there all the time. If I put away my dark lipsticks for the summer, or my matte lipsticks for the winter, they are new to me all over again when the seasons change.
what a gem of a comment. there's things i like to wear year round, lip glosses/nude highlighters etc. but i've realized i have special occasions for things like wearing lots of brights and browns for black history month to make my melanin really pop, bronzy cream products in the summer or blues in the winter, there's a subtle magic to that, thanks for bringing attention to it.
I do this! I have lipsticks I only wear in certain seasons, and I love it. I love having a makeup theme for each month. January includes things like 'minimalist', 'Russian ballerina ', 'nordic wild swimmer' and 'pine forest noir on my eyes'.
That's why year round capsule wardrobes don't work for me (also, having 4 seasons, too, makes no sense imo).
What an excellent idea! I often put seasonal clothes away but I never thought of doing it with makeup items. I'll have to try that! I do find that it makes me excited to wear my seasonal things when I put them away and then bring them back when it's time.
Yes! I've been putting away makeup seasonally for decades, and it's always such a pleasure to see my "new" refreshed collection. Helps me cycle through things better too.
minimalism isn't a destination, something that can or should be rigid. the year of less stuff showed us that.
mindful consumerism is a journey; so thank you for taking us with you on yours.
I loved hearing the conclusions you came to & formed a list. I also want to express my appreciation for your long ( and even not so long videos) and how they never feel rushed. Often times on social media things feel so rushed. I love just relaxing into your content & letting my thoughts unfold.
Beautifully said. Thank you for putting a feeling I had into words!
I agree!
thank you! I used to worry about how long they get because I know that I lose people, but eventually I just...stopped worrying
Yes. Thank you for addressing the decluttering issue. I am so sick of hearing the pervasive messages to endlessly declutter. It always surprises me that these messages are not paired with messages to consume in such a way that you won't need to get rid of the items shortly after getting them. I also have been exploring the ideas of mending and repair, and over the last few months I have been doing a lot of mending.
100%! Living with someone who's worked at 3 separate thrift stores while we've been together, I've learned just how many donations end up getting tossed due to the sheer volume of stuff coming in. This whole concept of buying stuff just to declutter & "donate" it later is ill advised & more of a way to pacify the guilt of over consumption.
*Just want to note that unopened or very, very lightly used beauty products would not get thrown out. A lot of the time the employees (who often make just above minimum wage) get to take a couple home, so I'm not reading Hannah on this*
Maybe someday you could teach a primer on how to identify high quality fabrics and well-made clothes. I feel like I have no idea about those things.
@Sarah Cormiea-- I'm sure Hannah could do a great job. Meanwhile, check out designer Justine LeConte, she has a lot of videos like that: ruclips.net/video/6a5lHAHf0Zk/видео.html
I'd love to make some content like this, and I also strongly recommend Justine!!!
@@agingophelia9812 Awesome, I’ll check her out. Thanks!
Re: taking care of our makeup-- a couple/three times a year, I take out every single makeup item I have, check it for spoilage/breakage/changes in texture; sharpen every pencil, wipe everything down & sanitize, set aside some brushes to be washed; then group all the items of each category by color and do a mini declutter (like when I noticed I had ten baby pink lipsticks!). I might re-organize a bit afterwards. It takes more time now than it used to (collection was always large but its grown), but it really helps me to keep a lid on things and keep my makeup safe and tidy.
Yesss, I did this at the beginning of the pandemic, and once again the beginning of this year. I also will occasionally do a big clean/de clutter of all my lip or eye products since those touch my mucus membranes directly.
I have been noticing that I am the most excited about a thing when I place my order. Once it is on my shelf or in a box, it loses something. Now when I want to buy something, I remind myself that it will do the same. That I was once excited and “had to have” all of my current stuff.
I feel like counting your stuff could be like counting calories. Some people never need to, but if you’re trying to make changes it can be educational to do for a time so you can reality check your mental estimation of what you are consuming
"You can't purge forever."
I really like this sentiment right now. As someone who has moved with much frequency over many years, I have finally not had to purge many things with this past move, and it felt refreshing. This included any makeup or skincare. Suddenly I had very little to pass on to friends or family. It freaked me out a little, but in a good way. 🙂
I was very interested in hearing your feelings on your previous project. So happy to have this video to listen to while I sew🧡
I found that becoming more minimalist and having less things I have more time and energy to clean/wash/care for them and really truly appreciate what I own.
So interesting to hear you speak about the beginning of the year. I’ve been following you and watching every video for a while, and I feel like I’ve grown with you this year. So much has changed, even though sometimes it feels like nothing is happening. For me, a year ago I was finishing my education degree, living in a small bachelor apartment in another city, my stressors were finishing assignments and writing tests and planning social events. Now I’m 30, living back at home with my parents, working as a full time teacher in a virtual environment, trying to emotionally take care of and teach a group of 10 year olds. The world keeps turning. Thank you for sharing your journey with us, Hannah!
"so much has changed even though sometimes it feels like nothing is happening" YES
Yay! Excited for you to embark on the coming year with a goal not made of numbers and limits, but of boundaries set by your own feelings and self-knowledge. I’ll be watching your career with great interest 😆
One thing that really helps me with the feeling of newness (for me I struggle buying clothes far more than makeup) is to take a day to actually care for the items I own. So I will go through my closet, wash everything (including things that have been crumpled on the chair) and fold and put them away. It gets me the newness feeling without actually buying anything new and it leaves me satisfied for days on end. The other thing is actually getting dressed and using the clothes that I love every single day (or close to). I find shopping to be somewhat of a creative impulse for me, so when I can be creative with the things I already own it lessens that impulse to buy more 💖 that said, I am about 8 days into recovering from a tonsillectomy and after surgery I shop SO MUCH I think just from not being able to get dressed and flex that creative muscle. And conversely, you can redirect when you get that itch to shop to go try a brand new makeup look with what you have already or to put together a new outfit combination. Just something that struck me 💖
That is such a good way of describing it. Taking time to care for the thing to invoke a sense of newness. I do this periodically with my makeup collection (wiping everything down, swatching and comparing) and I always feel excited and inspired afterwards. But I should do this especially when I have the urge to buy something.
@@constancewith_a_soundtrack5339 so happy it helped you!
I love this, yes yes yes
Love the fact that at 10:50 Hannah says "that's a pretty big leap" just as Sadie leaps off the shelves 😆.
Counting is simply data collection. Very useful. Great video.
Ok but the thud of Sadie plopping to the floor 😂😂😂
I know, I actually tried to cut it out because I was like "this is alarmingly loud" but it couldn't be done
I always make it to the end of your videos! I really enjoyed hearing you reflect in this one and I just want to highlight that I don’t interact enough on RUclips - which is so shameful to admit because as a very small channel I know how vital that viewer interaction is to keeping the creator morale up - and it’s because I often watch your videos on my TV rather than on my phone or computer so I don’t have the same ability to comment etc watching it on that medium. It’s a strange scenario where I’ve grown to value certain content enough that I want it to be on my biggest available screen so I can sit down and consume it properly rather than having it on in the background of my daily routine or whatever but the pay off to that is less commenting or liking, but I thought it was worth letting you know because I imagine if that’s happening with me it’s happening with others so please do know that even us silent lurkers are out here enjoying your content 🙈
Rose, it's okay! You do you! I wasn't a commenter either before I started my own channel. Watching the videos is the best support, especially if you watch to the end. But I appreciate what you are saying about the silent lurkers :) Thank you!!!
Thank you Hannah for yet another magnificent video! I rarely comment, because I have so much to say. Too many thoughts and takeaways from your content to ever make them into a cohesive comment. Rest assured that your videos, every one, brings value to my life and the work I’m doing with myself in relation to my possessions and how I value them. I too am a lover of beautiful things and your videos resonate so well with things I’m pondering and wrestling with in my life. So thank you! Your videos are a treasure...
thank you!!!
I feel like you could write a good book on this topic.
Yesssss! I want a book from Hannah
On this: “When buying, be realistic about what you’ll continue to love.”
I think it’s a great thing to keep in mind, and it also made me think about the fact that when I get something new that I love, I tend to value similar items I have less. Like, is this new liquid luminizer going to effectively stop me from using all of my other highlight products that I currently enjoy? Should I continue using and loving the highlight products that I already have instead of essentially “upgrading” to something I may enjoy more that may cause me to neglect what I already own? Or should I just see what happens? It’s interesting for me to think about and consider how a new item will fit in and effect my use of other items. Will I not only continue to love what is new, but will I also continue to love what is not new as a result?
Loved the video so much Hannah! I’m so glad you circled back and combed over your year of less stuff!!
I really love this channel. I went to the mall twice for the first time in almost a year and all I got was a hoodie from Uniqlo and socks from Nike. I couldn't believe it. My in person shopping self has changed dramatically and I credit this channel
thank you for sharing this and congratulations! I'm so glad that my content resonates, but strength comes from WITHIN!! It's you!
@@HannahLouisePoston aaww thanks!!! The mindfulness content was definitely a HUGE help
What great takeaways from this year! The one that stuck with me is fighting the urge to want new things and getting tired of the things we already have. I think that is also something I have an issue with myself. I feel like being content with what you have is not a concept that our consumerist society wants for us. I also think that doing inventory on yourself can really teach you a lot about what we value. I am looking forward to your journey this year.
I so agree!
I'm only in the first 5 minutes of the video, but I just wanted to say I love listening to you speak and hearing your thoughts on your journey from your no-buy all the way to year of less stuff. You make me think more about the things I choose to buy and bring into my home, and reflect on my reasoning for things before I make those decisions. Also your videos are so calming. :)
I love the constant perspective on capitalism and the consumer's responsibility to themselves first, and to be mindful. It's really good to watch someone who is a wholesome Reminder to take care of our financial lives ✨💕 thank you!
Sadie leaping off the shelf behind you as you said the word "leap" was perfection.
I relate to the resistance to do maintenance to keep my things looking beautiful. Yesterday, I finally cleaned and polished my two pairs of leather shoes, and they look beautiful now! I’m so excited to wear them tomorrow!
I loved seeing Sadie as a cat salmon. It was too cute.
I currently found myself window shopping online more and more with the want of getting newer clothes as a way to de-stress. I decided to try a similar technique of loving my “old” clothes. For Feb, I’m shopping my wardrobe for a few pieces of clothes each week. Style them for a week similar to clothes I wanting. I hoping this will minimize my want of “new” clothes while increasing the appreciation of my current wardrobe.
Hannah, I found your channel because of your no-buy insights. Which were astounding. But here’s what I think. I’ve seen so many You Tuber’s lose their verve in the pursuit of You Tube $$$.... I can imagine how overwhelmingly tempting it is. But I lose interest when I can’t relate.......there’s no forum for viewers to express this. For what it’s worth, the world doesn’t need another makeup tutorial.... as a Boomer-- I LOVE your Millenial insights! You are leaps and bounds ahead of me at that age. Forget the freaking eyeshadow, Hannah. Share the REAL STUFF❤️❤️❤️
This list is soooooo good! I love “fight the urge to devalue a thing to yourself when it’s no longer new.” Pure gold.
Oh lá lá that thumbnail! Excited to hear the wrap up!
Edit: Anyone else have a flashback to Hannah breaking that bottle of perfume when they were rearranging their apartment last year? 😅
omg, me when I read this comment!
You are hands down the best influencer that I genuinely enjoy watching. I love to listen to your soothing voice while I'm working as you speak about the topics at hand in such a thorough way. I don't consider myself a girly girl but I find it fun how you view and use all the beautiful things in your life. I would love to see you do a live vlog and take us shopping with you!
Per your goals, I would love to see a video where you take a single clothing item and create several unique looks with it using various other clothing items, accessories, makeup looks, and hairstyles. The inspiration from a video like that would be amazing.
I love all the take-aways! Good job - it sounds like you stuck to fewer, nicer things even when under crazy stress and, even more importantly, never broke your budget. 🙌
What a great video! I love that the project was a success. I also love hearing the insights you’ve gained - seeing someone grow and change and learn in real time is fascinating. And I love the list you made at the end, since those are all things I’m trying to live by. Even though we’re not on the exact same path or journey, your recurring videos are a great reminder for me in my everyday life to stay on track. Thank you for your content Hannah. ❤️
I love your videos because you are so well spoken. During this video I was thinking I'd like to hear you be interviewed or in conversation with someone else for a change. Could listen to you for hours, but it might be interesting to hear you be challenged in some kind of debate.
You can google Half Cousins and Hannah Louise Poston. I truly enjoyed these interactions.
Falling in love with the things I already own or have. That’s the life motto of every good relationship, with stuff and with people 🥰
Wow! you've had over 7000 views on this video today! That's how many people are wanting to see your conclusion and take aways from your project. I think having a theme for the year really works. I think your take aways were really good things. I like that you are getting to the place that you don't feel the need to constantly purge. I think in the past that was a need because to all the stuff we accumulate in a short period of time. I made a resolution to not bring any more clothes into this house but I found that that is easier said than done. I don't buy as much makeup but do buy skincare. I find that I have about all the palettes and eye shadow that I need. After that, everything is a repeat of what I already have. You done good girl!
I love listening to you talk, Hannah! It’s so relaxing and informational yet poetic. You’re the best! Sending you hugs 🤗💛
It's finally here 😍 i'm glad that you still did the recap, even though you kind of stopped worrying about the year of less stuff.
I like that you counted everything because i do that myself in order to see what i manage to use up.. And it's also kind of satisfying 😂
Amazing that the whole process turned out so well for you ❤️
I personally like that you quantify (with exact numbers) your less stuff journey! Would really love to see a video on how you go about choosing your quality pieces of clothing! Thanks for the amazing content as usual Hannah 💗
My gran used to complain to us children that we never looked after our things like she had been taught to do, and I would like to I just feel so tired and have no time a lot. I've definitely gotten better but I do think I have more to learn in that sphere
I liked this video a lot 😊
I feel this. I find myself reverting back to a lot of things my grandparents used to when it comes for maintaining items or reusing or using up items, or using more sustainable items. They had it right all along and Im just starting to clue in
I was keeping track of my makeup and skincare for a while with a (failed) attempt at a no-buy, then lock down happened, I moved twice and I stopped tracking my items. I know that I will have gained a significant amount of items due to comfort shopping but I found my old notebook so I'm going to sit down today and go through the numbers again. I'm also going to look at my clothes. I think an actual no-buy is in order for me, not just the "I can replace whatever I feel like" type I halfheartedly attempted last year. Thanks for the nudge.
That was a great introduction of your channel! To make sure that your love of beauty is nourishing you. Well said.
And another thing! I love what you said about decluttering - I try to find the balance because I could see myself " decluttering" perfectly good products simply because I want to buy new products that are unlikely to perform any differently, and that's just not what I'm about.
A year of less stress led to an intention to live a Life of Less Stuff! I’m happy for you!
I appreciate you and am grateful to see glimpses of your journey. You give me so much to use to look in the mirror. 🪞
Thanks for posting this. I’ve enjoyed the evolution of your channel since the bo buy year 🥰
I know that “bo buy” was a typo but it makes me think of my favorite Office reference “BoBoddy” and so I got a really fun little giggle out of your sweet comment that I also agree with. 🙃💜
My 2020 was much the same. While I was going through it, it didn't seem like it was valuable, it just seemed like wasted time but now when I look back I took away more than I thought I would from it and I learned A LOT of lessons from unexpected places. It sounds like the Year of Less Stuff was actually a success!
Thank you for sharing your feelings, your strategies and your take away from the experience of counting stuff! It is very helpful and encouraging! I am doing a low buy and i feel I am on the right way.
Your projects are always inspiring to me, I am not going minimalist, but I do have excessive items that are taking my space and don't want to be overwhelmed with the amount of choices I have.
Highly recommend you to declutter and sell a whole bunch of stuff! 😁 i did that the last few months and i made a really nice sum
i was really looking forward to this year's recap, and MORE Sadie. also this blushy&brown look really suits you, makes you look very soft and romantic
There is actually an actual term for items losing their novelty after a few months. It’s called ‘hedonic adaptation’. It’s a real thing.
There was a Roman author called Pliny the Elder that said “An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit”. So true.
I will add to your list of strategies is avoiding what I personally term as ‘apocalyptic shopping’ as in (what if they no longer stock this and I run out). We all know new stuff eventually come out anyways and we always overstock beyond what are interest sustains. We eventually get tired or outgrow something and then realize that we have back ups we need to finish before buying more.
Your videos have been getting me through this rocky start to 2021. And I absolutely love the principles you came up with. I’ll definitely use them as guidelines for my own relationship to stuff.
Hey beautiful! Great video! I decided to repot my singles into square pans in order to make a "tiled floor." It's made me fall in love with them all over again, instead of buying all new singles in square pans. Woohoo!
32 body care products?! Escandalo! Jajaja. Enjoying watching this! I just created spreadsheets to keep track of my lipstick, nail polish, shoes and knives inventory (I have a small knife collection). I created a Google form to input what I use every day in each of the categories so at the end of the year I will know what products I use and how often! Love your content Hannah! K gonna keep watching!
Thank you, Hannah, for creating such a beautiful space. Your channel is one of the few channels where I read the comments. I enjoy the perspectives of the majority of the commenters and learn from them. Huzzah!
My "joyful abundance" category is definitely eyeshadow. I can usually mix lipstick colors and creams to get a certain look for a certain mood, but I always love being able to add more subtle nuances between my eyeshadows. 😁
Same
I love at 10:51 when you say “a pretty big leap,” right as Sadie jumps down from the top shelf to the floor. 🐈⬛
I'm currently separated from most of my "stuff" as well, as I've been at Partner Unit's house (on the other side of London from me) for the duration of the pandemic thus far. I booked it over here in March before the UK officially went into lockdown, so it was sort of a rush job, and I didn't think through most of my packing decisions very well.
As a result, I've been swinging back and forth between buying a bunch of new stuff to make up for what I'm missing (or using the excuse of not having much with me to enable my desire to buy stuff, potayto potahto). So far, I don't think I've regretted more than a couple of the things I've acquired, and each time it's been because the thing I acquired was really a cheap stand-in for a better thing I *really* wanted but hadn't found yet. And I can say that even though I haven't really *used* most of the things I've acquired (or not very much), I'm really, really happy I have them.
What's on my mind at the moment is what's going to happen when I do go back to *my* space where *my* stuff lives (which I will have done well enough without for probably at least a year, by then), and I have to sort of "reckon" with the things I left behind, and kind of pit my new stuff against my old stuff. I'm envisioning a lot of battles with myself. Maybe a lot of "use it or lose it" type challenges to set myself, to determine how much of my old stuff I actually want to keep (and/or how much of my new stuff will render my old stuff obsolete or unnecessary).
So...that's going to be interesting when it happens. I don't know when that will be, because I'm not going anywhere until Partner Unit and I (along with my immunodeficient flatmate whom I do not wish to kill) are fully vaccinated. At the very least.
*whoops. I forgot the other end of the things I've been swinging between, which is this frenzied sort of denial tirade of "I don't need anything at all why am I buying anything when I'm literally just in the house being seen by nobody but Partner Unit and canine companion there's no point to anything I'm just wearing my PJs and binging Netflix I don't neeeeeed aaaanythiiiiing"
Which, despite its slightly unhinged, unpunctuated delivery, might actually be the smarter position to hold, but hey ho. I bought the things. I'm not sorry.
Thank you so much for sharing this! I was in a very similar situation for much of the last year. Went to stay with my partner across the country thinking I would be there for a month or so (I literally only brought 8 days of clothes with me 🤦♀️) and then ended up staying there for 10 months separated from my space and my stuff. It made buying things so weird because I knew that my stuff still existed back at home so I didnt know if I should replace things or not. Not to mention when buying communal things like cookware that I was going to be leaving it with my partner when I went back home. It made buying even necessities really challenging and confusing at times. I just got back a few weeks ago and let me tell you being back with a full closet and makeup collection and a kitchen with all my cookware is WEIRD. I'd gotten so used to living off of a small amount of things and being resourceful that this very full apartment feels like I dont even live here anymore. But I've definitely noticed a positive change in my spending habits as a result of this situation. I dont really buy things that are "good enough" anymore, if they're out of the deodorant scent I want, i just dont buy any instead of getting a scent I dont want. And I'm much more decisive when it comes to things that i would have considered non-necessities before. I dont really agonize over whether I really *need* this makeup or clothing, if I'm torn between buying something or not, I just wait a while and then come back to it. I've been away from almost all my belongings for a year, I can go a week without buying this eyeshadow and see if I still want it after. It's been such a strange year being in an unexpected place. Thank you so much for sharing your experience because this has been so isolating and it was really comforting to hear you echo so much of what I've experienced this year.
Oh one last thing. In terms of reckoning with the stuff you left behind. I also stressed out about that aspect of coming back. But honestly, it was so obvious what I needed to get rid of as soon as I was back in the space. The things I wanted to keep jumped out at me as "oh my god I forgot I have this, this is awesome!" And the things that didnt hold that excitement were easy to let go of. It honestly felt a little like shopping when I got back because so much of my stuff felt "new" again after having basically forgotten what all I owned. I hope your experience goes well when you return!!
I'm going to take the time to write out that list! I have already written down fewer nicer things a few times in different places just to remind myself of how I want to spend my money and what I want to include in my life. For the first time I bought a pair of pricier leather boots rather than the cheapy peepy ones that are worn out after a season. I realized I did start to begrudge them when they got dirty and I have to be okay with cleaning them and taking better care of my beautiful boots.
Wonderful video and I love the counting! I’m doing that too and then after I do a declutter I update my numbers. So exciting to see the numbers going down. I’m also sticking to one thing in one thing out. The using up of skin care, hair care and makeup is an ongoing mountain to climb but I’m getting there. Really loved this video and I will reference it often throughout this year as I do my own mindful spending! Sadie cameos are also a highlight🥰
I love blushes, too!
Re: the counting: I think it's super useful. I did it at the beginning and end of the year and it helped show how much I had really acquired. Makeup and tools aren't super large so it's easy to keep acquiring it without it taking up huge amounts of space. I have hording in my family background so I'm always conscious of how those instincts kick in when I'm not paying close attention. The tallying helps keep me honest with myself.
I've been counting, or more truthfully I took an accounting of my stuff in January, then in June and again three weeks ago! It taught me how much stuff I really have, increased knowledge of my stuff and gratitude for my stuff, it made me even more mindful of stuff that I choose to bring home
Hi Hannah! Just want to let you know thar you have been a great help for me in my low buy journey! I watch your vlog every night before sleeping. Thank you!
I truly appreciate and love that you are so creative and giving with your content. Thank you for all you do, HLP 💜
Thank you so much!
Your videos are always so calming to listen too :)
I feel you are very brave to count the physical number of your clothes and accessories. I'd be afraid to do that because I'm sure I have too much! Listening to you talk about this always makes me introspective about how I can change and improve.
I count and have spreadsheets for my beauty and makeup as I want to use things up and appreciate them. Count away if it helps! Great video
Emotional and spiritual survival taking priority over curation and perfection. These are good messages for me to have right now. Thank you for sharing.
Great video. I love your takeaways from what turned out to be such a successful project. It always makes me sad when people bash counting as a tool. It has been so eye opening for me. I can't be all feeling about it. People think I'm joking, but I'm completely literally serious when I say that every major realization I have had as an adult except for 1 has come through counting projects.
Thanks for this video! I didn't count all my stuff yet but with this video you conviced me to do a no buy year. For sure I have more stuff that I can use in a year
Your videos have been so comforting to me lately. I went back and watched your older videos and I’ve watched your single eyeshadow declutter relentlessly and repeatedly. I find myself annoyed at the amount of stuff and things all around me whilst spending all this time at home. Online shopping at 3 am when you can’t sleep because you’re not burning enough energy throughout the day was my coping mechanism in the beginning of quarantine but now I’m surrounded by my bad decisions and it grosses me out. Anyway, just wanted to say you’re a lifesaver and I’m done ranting now.
Loved & greatly appreciate every minute of the video...all the thought that went into it, the evolution it represents, & so much more. Thank you so so much for continuing to share your journey. This past year especially, you & your content have felt like the hug I’ve needed.♥️
~Melissa (& pepper 🐾 & pumpkin 🐾)
Always enjoy your content. Thank you for sharing so much with us 🤗
I also have a deep love of beautiful things and wanting new items to infuse into my life. However, I see the problems this has caused both fort he environment and for my finances, which tends to trickle over into my stress and relationships. So, my focus and goal is really to work on that core desire. By working on not wanting as much stuff, I think I can be much more satisfied with what I have and make better financial and personal decisions
I am working on mindfulness in my consumerism. Tracking my numbers last year taught too many items stress me. I like alot of eyeshadow options and lip products but all other beauty categories I do not need a lot of options.
Ahhhh...just settled in to a nice hot 🛁 after a rough day, only to see a post from HLP. Nice. Even better.
Same happened to me!!!
I just wanted to say how proud I am of you that you completed this project. I really appreciate the counting as I don’t know how else you could really tell how the year ended up without it. I also was really trying to reduce and use up the products I own as well as making purchases more mindful. Given the year we all had even ending up with more stuff would have been understandable but you did a wonderful job! Thanks for inspiring and challenging us all to be mindful and purposeful ❤️❤️
The way you speak & explain your thought process is so enchanting, I could listen to you explain the scientific method of making a peanut butter & jelly sandwich & id be happy 😂
I am not a native english speaker, therefore unfortunately there is no chance, that i could tell you properly, how much I love you and how much I appreciate your videos! I already have a list of principles by HLP written down in my notebook as part of my daily motivation, so I will extend the list with the new ones :) thank you, love you 🥰
thank you so much for this lovely comment
Having been forced into a sudden move at the start of the year I appreciate the project and your feelings around it so much more.
Oh my, the “taking time to take good care of my stuff” part really hit home! I desperately need to incorporate that into my life. Thank you for this list, and for sharing your projects with us ❤️
Ooooo...I think the counting shows us quantifiable evidence of what we accumulate. We count our money...we count plenty of things, and in a consumer culture, I can see how counting can be a rough and uncomfortable lesson or reckoning. "What gets measured gets managed." Good for you for doing what felt right and for leaving space for that to adapt to your situation over time.
I enjoy your videos so much but this one spoke to me because I am someone like many that loses interest after the purchase so I’m having to purge constantly . I will aim to follow your list of principals with determination. Thank you 😊
I just found your channel recently, but, I’m here for all this content. Thank you so much for this. It’s so needed in the Beauty Community. ❤️❤️❤️
I could listen to you talk forever n ever. You’re such a doll
I think the counting is great because it makes it specific and measurable. Otherwise it’s all very vague and you can’t really be sure whether you have achieved your goals or not x
You make me feel so good about the number of makeup items I have. I probably have 10 lip products. That includes my cerave healing ointment. I have one cheek product. I have several eyeshadow sticks that i was experimenting with but I only have three that I use. I need to declutter.
Thank you for these thoughts, Hannah. I feel myself growing as a human with the perspective you’ve shared since I began following in recent months.
As far as loving what we own, would you share a quick tutorial for the Elf Active cheek palette? I’d love to get my full use out of that product, and I feel like you shared that you apply it by mixing shades?
You're so well spoken. There's not enough that this on RUclips. Watched till the end and subscribed. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, and experience. I definitely relate and went through a lot of similar thoughts about my stuff this year. It's been a journey.
I think you always made it super clear that the numbers were part of the means of tracking your consumption and not the end in themselves, and I personally love some numbers - I agree that it's interesting. As with each of your previous projects, The Year Of Less Stuff deepened your understanding of your relationship with your possessions, and it's lovely to see. The list of stuff principles with which you ended up echoes the maxims I try to apply to my own acquisition of things, but I could definitely do better in some if not all of these categories, so thank you!
My replacements-only no-buy year is going (surprisingly!) fabulously well so far and I'm just trying to psyche myself into documenting it online because I think that's going to save me when the going gets tough, which I expect it will at some point along the line.
Finally, I think it's so interesting to discover how differently each of us views and values their various stuff categories. Ten perfumes does sound like a reasonable quantity for a "regular" person, but for it could never be me: this fumehead over here has around 80 full bottles and likely twice as many samples/decants; I would like to trim it down by around a third by using up some samples and exchanging full bottles that disappointed me over time, but I would never want my fragrance collection to be anything less than an expansive wardrobe and reference library - I'd be hard-pressed to even name a top ten, let alone commit to using only them! But you could remove all the trousers from my wardrobe I wouldn't even notice...
Isabelle I love the idea of you and all of your perfumes. I like to think that you have a separate room for them like an alchemy lab :)
you mention wanting to take better care of your stuff- I'd like to hear more about that journey! if that's something you'd want to share of course.
Hey Miss Hannah, I wonder how you assess the effect of PR in favour of only buying fewer nicer things. You mentioned that, without PR, you imagine to have reduced your total number of items even more because purchasing less things of higher quality came naturally to you this year after your various projects. Do you think the experience of recieving PR took the edge off the capitalism-and-new media-induced urge to try/touch/look at new things so you could fokus on your purchasing decisions more easily?
for me, it doesn't take the edge off very much, because I'm rarely sent things that I actively want or would have bought. A little, but not much. The real issue for me is in managing my obsession with the things I really want to buy.
She talks about this in a video called “how PR effects my budget”!
@@sydneyyoung3 Thanks, Sydney! I do infact know the video you are recommending, but I still felt like I was missing this aspect from the explanations - turns out Hannah's experience is just very different from what I am imagining it would be for me if I was in the same situation! That's why I had to "double check" 😉 And she was kind enough to repeat her statement!
Listening to this whilst writing out an inventory of my skincare to stop myself buying more just because of another great sale. I have enough stuff!
I am very late to the game but I watch a lot of your older videos and think about your take aways.
The "counting incorporated into a greater concept" thought resonates with me.
For the last few months I tried to rotate through all of my clothes. I put a piece of cardboard with the current date under the piles or on one side of the clothing rack. Every washed item was placed unter the card or next to it. I had a physical barrier with a date and could see how fast I rotated through the individual categories and witch things I did not gravitate towards.
There were a few other rules, including noting the dates of a full rotation on the cards for statistics and having cold hard facts which categories I used more.
But these rules not really stuck and I stopped paying attention to the cards in all the categories I store in piles.
But I love the physical barrier on my clothing rack between the worn and unworn items of one rotation. I will keep that system because it shows me witch items I overlook and I just more eager to wear them.
One of my rules is, that every outfit has to include at least one item that I haven't worn in this rotation.
Appreciate your effort reporting all of this and to share your journey of awareness. What struck me was "will I continue to love it". I find myself researching the "h" out of an item and then it goes to the wayside. Definitely lends to my knowing myself and that is part of the journey of loving beautiful things. Always Hannah, thank you for thought provoking content, and I appreciate the fabulous comments from fellow subscribers. Never turn away from a video without a pearl of wisdom. Saturday and Mimosa Hugs XO!
Refreshing
I always watch your videos to the end, but am a bit of a silent viewer, other than always making sure to like them
The feeling of new is better than old is a feeling bred in us from an early age. Using old stuff in a new way is a great feeling too. I like to focus on new ways of applying makeup rather than the acquisition of new stuff.