r/extrememinimalism

lol. Clearly still have a laptop posting here. But would like a way out. Aside from the internet I don't need it for personal stuff. Just banking etc. though I can always call the bank. Thinking I should just lock it away for a week or two and see what i miss. Wdyt?

Eventually will get rid of the tv too but that'll be the last to go in this setup because it's easiest. Just a bit of complexity with the laptop now that I'm without a smartphone too.

Seriously.

Aside from all the clutter they tend to accumulate and then need to maintain, which becomes too overwhelming for most people, I feel like the shopping part of it all is the worst.

With my laptop came a clunky charger. I also had a small charger for my phone and headphones. Now that charger started to make a weird high pitched sound, which I then googled only to find out that they actually recalled that charger because it was prone to accidentally explode.

I did not want that to happen so I went to look for a new charger that would also allow me to get rid of my clunky laptop charger.

It took fucking HOURS. There are SO many different chargers and you also need cables that can handle the watts and then you might need a little adapter because not all of my devices use USB C. And then you need to figure out how to keep that tiny adapter attached when not in use so it won't get lost. Then you have to think about how long you want that cable to be and if you want to use a tie to manage the extra cable length or if you want to use something that rolls it up.

I bought a 100 W charger for my laptop and used my old (and very slow) multi adapter cable to charge my phone and headphones and just wait for when my phone breaks so I can make sure to get something with USB C as well so I can get rid of the multi adapter cable as well.

This was the first time in I don't even know how long that I had to do that kind of "research" for a replacement and I don't know how people do that for fun, or "therapy". I need a vacation after that.