The key to being a minimalist is controlling the stuff that flows into your life. In most cases, this power lies in your hands: you can refrain from shopping, refuse freebies, and ask friends and family to stop giving you gifts.
You can, in effect, shut the door on stuff.
The problem: in that door lies a mail slot. And through that slot will pour all kinds of useless, unwanted, and uninvited clutter, almost every single day.
Short of boarding it up, here’s what you can do to limit the postal deluge:
1. Put a freeze on your credit report, or sign up with optoutprescreen.com.… {Read more}