• What should I do if I’m torn between staying in the life I’ve rebuilt or starting over somewhere new for a fresh start?
• What would compel you to drop everything and move to a new city?
• Right Here, Right Now: One more stop on the Minimalism Tour, and Ryan’s new restaurant.
• What blue blocking glasses does Joshua own?
• Is it okay to just throw everything away instead of donating or selling it?
• Does The Minimalists’ all-black wardrobe extend to everything—including jeans, underwear, and shoes?
• Is putting your husband in “his place” considered decluttering?!
• Talkaboutable: A cluttered house is a stressful house.
• Talkaboutable: Our phones are a root cause of our anxieties.
• More About Less: If you gave us the keys to your house, and two hours, here’s what we’d get rid of first.

Minimal Maxims

Joshua, Ryan, and T.K.’s pithy, shareable, less-than-140-character responses. Find more quotes from The Minimalists at MinimalMaxims.com.

• Whatever you’re clinging to is already gone.
• To control is to cling.
• Geography won’t fix you, but it might free you.
• Belonging is not a place, it’s a people.
• Dropping everything doesn’t mean dropping the important things.
• Same self, new soil.
• Sometimes you have to go away to come back.
• Necessity is the mother of relocation.
• Relocation is nicer than dislocation.
• Our possessions possess us.
• A colorless wardrobe highlights the color of your personality.
• Self-righteousness is an insecure man’s favorite drug.