I want to become a minimalist

As everyone knows I have anxiety and depression on top of other mental issues that I have been dealing with for years. With this deployment I am trying to focus on other things to keep me out of depression, but the heat is not helping. I want to lay around and do nothing, but then again if I even breathe I'm covered in sweat so there is a reason! Haha Today though I have been extremely bored, and with boredom brings anxiety. So since I have no friends here, no one to talk to here, and I really hate bothering people I know in The US I started thinking about getting out and going shopping. Why shopping? I honestly blame Jacksonville, NC for this, there was not a single thing to do there so everyone shopped. It was just what you did, because there was nothing to do! I never shopped before then, ever really, but some how it became my go to for 6 years. There is a problem with this though...you end up with so much crap you could live without. Eventually clutter, and I hate clutter! Everyone on my dads side of the family is a hoarder, my mom says she isn't but she really is, and so I grew up around hoarders. Not the tv show type where you can't walk around, the house was actually very clean but there just seemed to be so much stuff! I always thought we were not like this, until we moved cross country two years ago. It was a realization for me, we have to much! Funny thing is we only filled a medium I think uhaul truck, so it wasn't that bad I guess. Now though we live in a 1400 sq foot home vs our 800 sq foot duplex in NC. So I'm looking around today and I think, in two years we have to move again and I don't want to do that crap again! I want to become a minimalist! The problem is going to be my boredom shopping! My kids don't allow me to do things during the day so I am pretty much bored every day till they go to bed, this will be interesting! Let's figure out how I need to become a minimalist shall we? I say I need a plan of attack! I'm going to start with the living room, it is the closest to being minimal I think, then I'll move to each room with a plan of attack. Let's begin! Living room: What is in here: couch, large entertainment center/book shelf, wheel, bike, Sloans computer desk, Sloans guitar stuff, and a recliner What should go: the recliner, but needs go be replaced with a bookshelf for Sloan because he has tons of books for flight school and work polled on his desk...like I said I hate clutter and his desk drives me nuts! Everything else is nicely organized and clean. Kitchen: You know what is in here What should go: clean off the top of the fridge (all kids stuff!), clean out the appliance cabinet because we don't ever use anything in there but in all honesty it was all gifts we never buy appliance gadget type stuff, clean off countertop I keep it pretty clean but I would nothing at all on it. Hall closet: I just cleaned this out not that long ago and there isn't really anything in it, but I need the reminder to get rid of the kids old jackets that don't fit anymore. We don't need jackets here so they are seriously tiny! Haha Toy room: You know what's in here duh lol Oh how I hate this dang room so much! It annoys me because they rarely play in it, and they always make such a mess when they do! I just did a huge clean out a month ago, but kept things they said they would play with...they still haven't. So, I want to get rid of everything I know for a fact they haven't touched. Besides they just got legos from my mom and they only play those now anyways. Yet again here is another thing we did not buy! We stopped buying toys except for Christmas because my parents always send them stuff. This year I'll be at their house for Christmas so they are not getting anything from me this year. They seriously will not notice so no harm done! The kids rooms: I just did their rooms a month ago and made them minimilist, it's wonderful! Still need go through again just to make sure I'm happy with what is left. Bathrooms: there is nothing in there, seriously haha I have a tiny box of makeup and a tiny box of nail polish plus Sloan and I both only have products we legit use. Our bedroom: Just the dang closet which is mainly just sloans unorganized clothes. He enjoys buying clothes since he goes out with friends to bars, out to eat, etc and I don't so I blame him for the closet! I have two pairs of jeans, 6 shirts, and a pair of shorts. Lol I'm already minimalist in the clothing area! It's called I don't leave the house chic...yes... I think just by organizing his things the closet will be nice, I can't get rid of things of his I don't know what fits and what doesn't. The rest of the bedroom is minimalist, it's where I relax so I make sure there is nothing in there. Craft area: Ugh this is where my shopping habit is shown. I use to be big into crochet and knitting, now I'm not, so I got rid of lots of yarn and all my crochet hooks. Knitting needles and other misc craft stuff still needs to be cleaned out, majority of what I buy I actually do use, I just haven't because of the heat lately (it's insane hot over there). I haven't been to micheals more than once in the past 6 weeks though so yay me! After typing this all out I see I'm close to my minimalist goal! Let's how it goes!