Happy Chinese New Year

How would you celebrate CNY as a chinese minimalist?

Same as everyone else, I still buy new clothes, do my spring cleaning, buy CNY's goodies etc. So what's the different as a chinese minimalist who also celebrate CNY the same as others?

As I shared in my previous blog post regarding how my life has changed after a year of minimalism, this year during the spring cleaning, we really can feel the effect of it. 

My wife feels less stress in cleaning and tidying up (because we have much lesser stuffs now than before), for CNY's food stuffs, we don't really buy much as we are just a family of four and not many people gather in our house for celebration. We tend to gather at someone's place who is more senior.

We only buy what we think we are able to finish up such as bak kwa, boxes of chocolates, some packet of drinks (pretty much nothing else, except some other stuffs for steamboat).

Even for new year clothes, I only restrict myself in just getting one piece of shirt. The main reason is there are still many clothes in my wardrobe! Literally nobody can tell whether I bought 2-3 new pieces or not and I think nobody would really care!

As for CNY's decoration for the house, we don't want to invite new things into our house too. This year, we are creative enough to paste some couplets (DIY) on our main entrance door and walls.

That's it! How about you? How do you celebrate CNY after you embraced minimalism into your life?