Swapping out my work trousers for worn-out jeans, I set to work painting my room.
We were decorating our bedroom for our baby boy, who we were due to welcome into the world in March 2022.
Only, I wanted it to be a clutter-free space.
Scouring Facebook for cots and baby carriers, I picked out the bare essentials.
We wanted the baby to have a calm space to move into, and didn’t see the need to fill it with lots of random stuff.
I had been practising minimalism since 2017, when, needing to pay off some debt, my partner, Jason, and I downsized.
We were about to move from a five bed to a two bed in Ontario, Canada, and had mountains of stuff to get rid of.
How did we manage to accumulate all this stuff? I thought to myself.
Now that it was in front
