Some of the commenters on this article say that this man who claims to have whittled down his worldly possessions to just 44 items and lived that way for a year is a scammer who mooches off of other people. I don’t know if that’s true or not.

What I do know is that no woman could do live with only 44 items for a year. We women have a wide range of needs. We need several different skirts and/or pairs of pants because our waist size changes depending on the time of the month. We aren’t going to live without our favorite bath or hair care products. We’re certainly not going to live with just a couple of outfits for a whole year.

You can take minimalism too far. Maybe he’s making a mockery of it. Or maybe he’s just an attention seeker. In any case, I’m thinking I couldn’t whittle down my list of necessities for a year to under 100, much less 44. I know a few people who couldn’t get their list under 1000. Ultimately, it’s kind of a silly exercise anyways.