More Purging and more

Remember how my desk-area looked before?

In January 2011 my desk looked like this:

January, 2011

Now it looks like this:

November, 2011

I got realistic about what books I’ll actually read, what I won’t re-read, what could be digitized, and what I use and don’t use. The printer was donated, most of the knitting books were also donated, the yarn in the plastic bin to the left has been mostly used or donated, and the old couch in the foreground was also donated.

Minimalism certainly is a journey. There’s no way that I would have been able to do all of this purging in one shot – this happened over the course of nearly one year.

There’s still much purging left to do before I move to South Korea in mid-February. I hope to find a good home for my favorite knitting reference books (I’ve either learned to do most things, or I can find videos online), and trade-in my desktop computer for a laptop.

And as for the Austin Hoodie that I have yet to update you all on? I’m finishing up the first sleeve:

This pattern is horribly slow and monotonous. I haven’t enjoyed knitting it at all – and probably the reason why its taken me so long to complete – but the finished product should be a great asset to my minimal wardrobe.