Hello Lavie, I enjoyed reading about your minimalism journey. You nailed a lot of great points.

Saying no to free stuff is something I found quite challenging, especially books! I remember several months ago, I was approached by a friend who was giving away a van full of French books to the Alliance Francaise library and I was free to choose any and how many books I wanted. Since it's very difficult to find french books in bookstores here in our country, the greedy side of me wanted it all hahaha. I eventually picked 3 which are still lying on my bedside table. Started them but all unfinished. So when I received another set of books after that, one of which was from millycf1976, I made it a point to read them, keep them if they're something that I will keep coming back to, or pass them on when I'm done.