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A merry meaningful Christmas
What our minimalist Christmas looks like
Last Christmas we were only dipping our toes into minimalism and so we were naturally curious as to how our new lifestyle would impact on the festive period. I won’t lie, we loved decorating our home at Christmas time. Singing Santa’s, butt-shaking snowmen, if it was loud and glittery then we probably owned it. Each year, on the second weekend prior to Christmas, we’d spend an entire day putting up our tree, arranging our decorations and hanging the Christmas lights outside our home.
This year however, we dived headfirst into a minimal Christmas. We have spent the entirety of 2019 living a more deliberate lifestyle. A lifestyle that consists of more experiences, updated values, more time spent in each other’s company and less money spent on consumables. We therefore deliberately wanted to continue our momentum into the Christmas period. So, in order to have a more minimal yet meaningful Christmas, this is what we did…
We bought a much smaller Christmas tree
Owning a smaller tree forced us to part with many of our tree decorations. Reducing our tree from a standard 7.5ft pine tree to a 5ft slimline tree meant we donated around 30–40% of our tree decorations to charity. The smaller tree also reduced the amount of Christmas tree…
