I would describe my home as minimalist. We try to live with as little as possible. In fact, I even thought it was possible to live without a store-room! I never liked the idea of a room full of unwanted, forgotten, past-their-prime things, which is probably how I would describe the store-room at my mum’s place.
Well, as it turns out, life with a kid can hardly be described as minimalist; with their ‘specialised’ stuff filling up corners of our home slowly but surely. Since we kinda did away with a store-room, we really did not have much space to keep things which M no longer needs or wants.
Our strategy has so far been to pass them on so they continue to stay useful. We had our fair share of hand-me-downs and it’s environmentally friendly too! Well, we hope to have another kid (more complicated now) but we knew we did not want kids very close in age. Also, I have this weird preference for something that’s aged through use versus something seemingly new that’s turned ‘old’ from being kept away for years. Needless to say, I’m no fan of antiques.
Anyway, I feel happy seeing these hand-me-downs being ‘revived’ in homes of our friends and relatives. I bet ‘they’ prefer to be out there in action than idle in the store-room!
p/s: our converted study has somehow turned into a de-facto store-room 
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