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Mum embraced minimalism - and chucked out 1,000 things including kids' drawings
Meet the minimalist mum who has thrown out more than 1,000 items from her home - including her kid's drawings. Kylie Perkins, 25, adopted minimalist lifestyle after her son, Bo, five, was diagnosed with Doose syndrome - a rare type of epilepsy. In a bid to "take back control" of their life, Kylie and her partner, Ryan, 25, a real estate agent decided to embrace minimalism - the idea of living with fewer items and only using what you really need. They went through their "cluttered" three bed house room by room and over two weeks ruthlessly decluttered everything they didn't need - including jewellery, books and furniture. Kylie got rid of over a thousand items including seven full bags of clothes and two buckets of toys that were all donated to charity. As well as removing kitchen utensils and bathroom supplies, Kylie also decided to tackle her children's artwork - with pictures of "half-drawn animals" discarded. The family now use just one bowl and one plate each and say they have "no interest" in shopping for new items - with Kylie and Ryan refusing to buy presents for each other. Kylie, a social media management business owner, from Wasilla, Alaska, but now living in North Carolina, US, said: "Unfortunately we have been battling epilepsy with our son for two years. "All of a sudden it got really bad - he had 15 seizures in four days. We found out through an EEG that he was having a seizure a second. "After the diagnosis, we had two choices - let it control our life, be super angry or think about what we can do and what we are in control of. "We watched a documentary on YouTube about minimalism and we saw the benefits - how it can free up your mind and help with depression and we agreed that it was what we needed. "So we went through our home and started decluttering. It was about 14 days and it's been huge. "It's freed up so much more mental space. "People ask how I was able to get rid of so much but I was in a youth homeless shelter when I was young so I know how to shift the mindset of knowing what I have that someone else might not. "My kid's artwork was probably the hardest though. "We had so many pieces of paper of half-drawn animals and that's hard to get rid of as a mum. "I would fill a whole closet of their work but it's never going to get looked at again so we got rid of it." Kylie decided to tackle her bedroom first as it's where they wake up every morning. She said: "With so much going on, I knew we had to start where it would be the most …
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