How did I get into this simple living thing: Part 1

I keep asking myself that, I sure was not raised that way, the first 29 0r 30 years of my life were lived in pursuit of a high paying job and accumulating lots of things. The down side to several years of my life were the fact I never found the high paying job that I wanted, I am doing okay but far where I thought I wanted to be.

In fact I spent several years very depressed because my life was not where I thought that it should be.

A couple of years ago I just started feeling tired of trying so hard, I was not becoming lazy I just did not care about the stuff I had and began to stop buying, start saving more and realized I did not need 90 percent of the things that I had. I also started seriously thinking about the amount of debt that I was in.

I did not think that I was normal so I did not tell too many people how tired and I how I felt I was not living just existing.

Then a couple of years ago I saw two documentaries, one was "Affluenza" the other was " Radical Simplicity" both were eye opening. I realized not only was I not alone but many people felt the way I did and it was a whole movement.

I had always to be part of a movement.

Since I have read "Your money or your life" and "Starting Simple" and I just purchased "Voluntary Simplicity" off of www.ebay.com.

It has been a little slow going at time, especially since I am married with two kids and my wife is not as into this as I am yet, but she is getting there.