For young people who are adrift, the belief in life used to be that "the house is rented, but the life is not". In order to accommodate their expectations of a better life, many people only regard rent as a ticket to the big city, and have the money to renovate their rental house at their own expense to have the start-up capital for life: spend hundreds of dollars to repaint the walls, add a bunch of furniture that cannot be moved, and some people are even willing to spend five figures to renovate a three-figure rented old dilapidated house. After a toss, some people obviously didn't buy a house but took a mortgage, for fear that as soon as they moved, the long-term investment in a better life would become a regretful spiritual debt. 
Seeing through this flashy chicken soup of life, today's most transparent young people are redefining the value of life with minimalist renting. 
The so-called minimalist rent, on the surface, is the ultimate door, not to add anything to the home that cannot be taken away, so that it can only present a kind of homeless four walls of the look: plastic bottles as tooth jars, suitcases as wardrobes, and even if the landlord is not equipped with a bed, he will directly pull a mattress and throw it on the ground to sleep, usually never need to call cleaning, because there is nothing at home to be cleaned up. 
While others are still trying to be the masters of life, young people who try to rent a house minimalist see themselves as guests invited by the landlord, enjoying what they have at home, and not having to bother to serve what they lack. Minimalism does not mean fooling, and some people specifically emphasized, "Minimalist renting is the same as eating light food, avoiding excessive consumption and making life bloated, which is a low-energy but sustainable self-love solution." ”
Jumping out of the chain of consumption contempt, minimalist renting has its own high-end circle, toilet paper homemade creative wall calendars, tree branches to pick up home, is the design of the clothes pole. 
Seeing in advance that they are destined to leave the end of Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, the new drifters regard the minimalist renting as a way to retreat at any time, while the old drifters make it a regular way of life, "After the minimalist rent, the home is as clean as a temple, whether it is material desire or social desire, it has entered the Buddhist mode." ”
In the beginning, there were still people who struggled with how to find a sense of belonging in the big city if they didn't build a nest. But soon, there was a new consensus: "Minimalism is renting, but life is your own". 
Only those who have drifted in big cities understand that minimalist renting is not for cost performance, but for quality and price ratio. Coco, who has drifted north for three years, had an unstable job when he first came to Beijing, and changed his residence three times in a row within a year, "moving from Wangjing to Haidian and then to Fangshan." After a toss, his belongings did not increase but decreased, the money in his pocket was always not hot, he had to dedicate all to the liquidated damages, when he first came to Beijing, there were a few large bags and small bags, and then in order to facilitate the move, only one suitcase remained. After tossing, she sighed, "The quality of life in Beipiao does not come from the value of the items you have, but the meaning of the existence of each thing, whether it will become wear and tear, or make you live a more chic life." ”
Ideally, she believes that if the "use instead of buying" is done to the extreme, then when moving, a suitcase is enough to hold all the things to be taken away, and as long as the box is not broken, life will not be deformed. "For example, if the quilt is too heavy to take away, you can replace it with a sleeping bag; The choice of single items should consider storage as much as possible, such as the outer diameter of the washbasin, which is best to be stuck just in the inner diameter of the foot soaking bucket before it can be stacked together; And as long as it is something that can be DIY, it is not worth breaking the bank, the small table can be made of cardboard boxes, and the dirty laundry basket can be replaced by a large plastic bag. ”
At first, some people rejected the reason for living a minimalist life, thinking that they were wronging themselves in order to save money. When Niu Niu first started to drift deeply, he thought the same, but as a result, he rolled up in a factory in Nanshan for two years, and finally saved more than 100,000 yuan, "but the hairline and ** state also seem to be ten years old." After leaving his job last year, he began to practice a long-term lifestyle, buying only one thing he buys, in order to improve the quality and reduce the consumption of quantity. 
Photo source: Xiao Moushu @ occasionally at home "I used to buy shoes, run and play badminton with a pair, but now, a pair of casual shoes is enough to go all over the world; In the past, there were a lot of clothes, and the wardrobe of the rented house was never enough, but now only one piece of clothing of different styles is enough; In the past, the kitchen was stuffed with all kinds of bells and whistles but rarely cooked, but now there is only one rice cooker, but I have developed the eating habit of cooking rice and drinking porridge every day. ”
Photo source @ cigarette rolls.
At the moment when consumerism is prevalent, minimalist renting has formed a kind of self-circulation because of its niche, giving birth to a group of cybergypsies living in the city. They often haunt all parts of the country, but never leave any traces of life, whenever they go to and from a certain city, they only need to enter the local WeChat tribe, and they can trade a variety of uncommon lightweight equipment on the market with the expected **, such as mini routers, folding hangers made of cloth, and even if you only want to buy half a bottle of cooking wine, you can get it here. 
To summarize the science of minimalist renting, you can understand it as a long-term low return**, or you can get started quickly, and treat life as a project management with very fine granularity, with the goal of reducing losses, improving efficiency, and becoming the leader of your own life in the team of minimalist renting.
For those who want to take root in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, minimalist renting may be perfunctory to life, but for friends who do not aim at it, investing too much in renting will only bring many troubles to life.
I once spent 30,000 yuan for the renovation of the rental house, I remember the cause of my original wealth, just changed to a comfortable sofa, "The result is then, I feel bored sitting dry, I should match the living room with a projection, it turned out that the white wall picture quality is low, I had to buy another curtain, I don't want to waste the big screen, so I bought PS5 and a bunch of game discs one after another, and then I lost my memory, only to know that my year-end bonus was suddenly spent." ”
Photo source: Xiao Mou book @ Twinkle is working hard.
I thought that after a big fight, I would live in a rented house for at least five or six years, but after only two and a half years, I went to another city because of my job transfer. I wanted to move my small home like Yugong moved mountains, but when he received a moving bill of nearly 1w3, he had to return his broken arm to blood and resell the large items he bought, he finally woke up to "When you think that the rented house is life, sooner or later you will find that your life has also become rented." "Instead of seeing a rented house as a home, minimalist renting gives migrant workers a sense of security. After living in a super community in Beijing for 4 years, I am used to seeing people move in in the corridor every day, and there are always people who leave the scene at the end of the month. ”
Photo source Xiao Moushu @ Pingwu Wang Na run ready to leave from Beijing at any time**, the lost furniture often comes from the gift of friends when they end up drifting north, or at the end of the corridor of the apartment, you can often pick up abandoned tables, chairs and benches, "The ultimate meaning of minimalist renting is to let the tossing people work hard, and then pay for your life." ”
To be fair, the first side of minimalist renting is that you have to face the uncertainty of working hard in a big city, but the B side is that the fewer things in the house, the less troubles there are for workers. Usually when brushing Douyin, Xiaogang often brushes Amway** of various good things in life. Thinking that I could achieve the freedom of fried chicken for a few hundred dollars, I bought an air fryer, and in order to save 20 yuan a day for coffee, I bought another espresso machine. "As a result, these things slowly become the appendix and tonsils of your life in the north, which can neither be separated nor come in any use, and become the chicken ribs of your life and the soft underbelly of freedom. ”
Some people have been fighting monsters and upgrading all the way in big cities, and finally boiled their monthly salary from 8k to w, and their daily consumption level has gone up, but they have always restrained their expenses on renting.
Ah Cai, who has been drifting in Shanghai for many years, has a mentality of "living in an apartment as a cheap hotel", thinking that "spending time on renting is equivalent to becoming a spiritual landlord, and every purchase is a rent increase for himself in disguise." Instead of spending money on a place to sleep, it's better to broaden your horizons. ”
Therefore, he is happy to spend 30% of his income on exploring the world, and last year he spent tens of thousands of yuan to travel to more than 20 cities, but he never refused to move out of a remote apartment of 2,500 a month, and even lived alone for 3 years.
Photo source Xiao Moushu @ Xiao Hu Guier and even for some people, the reluctance to face the social pressure with the landlord is also one of the reasons for choosing a minimalist rent, "Instead of facing heavy pressure, spend a few hours, and communicate with the landlord, what color paint can be repainted at home, or whether the old furniture at home can be removed, and it is more comfortable to make do with it." ”
**10,000 Fans Incentive Plan
Someone said, "Minimalist renting is not a choice, but a situation, it tells everyone a simple truth, when you feel anxious in the face of high-speed idling life, or helpless, less tossing, is always the simplest solution to internal friction." "Don't worry about living in a shabby place, whether you will lose face in front of your friends. One of the general rules in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou is that unless someone needs to come to feed the cats, they will rarely invite others to their homes, maintaining a subtle sense of social distancing.