By Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus · Follow: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram
Recently, a reader asked whether we could imagine electing a minimalist president. Yes, but we don’t have to imagine: his name was…
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When Bex, Ella, and I moved to Los Angeles in 2017, we didn’t own much. This video shows how we slowly populated our home with only the things that add value to our lives…
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After four months experimenting with Screenless Saturdays, we created a video that highlights the three ways to participate. We filmed this video on a Saturday using only analog audio and video equipment…
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Joshua & Ryan are joined by Chris Hogan, author of “Everyday Millionaires,” to talk about budgeting, wealth, and retirement, and they answer the following questions…
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Misery encourages others to pull up a chair and stay a while…
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Joshua & Ryan talk about baggage, boundaries, and letting go of the past, and they answer the following questions…
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In this video, The Minimalists end Season 2 of Livingroom Conversations by answering, in detail, minimalism’s fundamental question: “How do you let go?”
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Joshua & Ryan talk about their personal collections, and they answer the following questions…
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Take a look around: everyone is multitasking. We’re doing more than we’ve ever done…
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Joshua & Ryan are joined by Diane Capaldi to talk about hope, despair, joy, and regret, and they answer the following questions…
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Joshua & Ryan are joined by James Clear to talk about creating new, empowering habits, and they answer the following questions…
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Find a friend, family member, or coworker who’s willing to minimize their excess stuff with you next month, because we’re going to play a game together…
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Joshua & Ryan reminisce about their favorite memories of 2018, and they answer the following questions…
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Merry Christmas from The Minimalists…
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Joshua & Ryan are joined by Jordan Harbinger to talk about what it takes to start a successful small business, and they answer the following questions…
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Once I sifted through the sluice, I found a collection of gems…
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Joshua & Ryan discuss upgrading your phone, clothes, technology, housing, appliances, and anything else you might consider upgrading, and they answer the following questions…
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Many books begin with a supposedly blank page that says, “This page left intentionally blank.” But of course it’s not blank. And it’s not even intentional. Yet it masquerades as both…
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Joshua & Ryan discuss our culture’s addiction to stuff, shopping, drugs, alcohol, outrage, drama, success, and achievement, and they answer the following questions…
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According to CNBC, 28% of shoppers are still in debt from last year’s Christmas shopping. Nonetheless, the average shopper plans on spending $776 on gifts this holiday season, a nearly 50% increase from just four years ago…
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Joshua & Ryan discuss re-evaluating our lives so we can make the changes we need to make, and they answer the following questions…
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Joshua & Ryan discuss the holiday shopping season, and they answer the following questions…
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When it comes to holiday gift-giving, The Minimalists always recommend gifting thoughtful consumables, experiences, and charitable donations instead of…
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Black Friday is the day we trample people for things we don’t need, the day after being thankful for what we have.
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Joshua & Ryan chat with Randi Kay about self-care, and they answer the following questions…
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The average American tosses 88 pounds of clothes each year. Yet we keep buying more when we actually need less…
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Joshua & Ryan talk about reducing excess stuff, including some of the things that might add value to your life, and they answer the following questions…
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Our things should add value to our lives: they should augment, enhance, or amplify our experiences…
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Joshua & Ryan talk about fear, depression, success, judgment, and gift-giving, and they answer the following questions…
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The struggle to feel complete, and why more stuff isn’t the answer…
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Joshua & Ryan sit down with Peter Rollins, producer of Making Love, to discuss why people struggle with love, and they answer the following questions…
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Joshua & Ryan answer a bunch of questions about minimalism, including…
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The Minimalists are contributing to a twelve-month simple-living course…
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Clutter accumulates quickly. Between our desks and coffee tables and countertops and dressers and credenzas and benches and sideboards and end tables and media consoles, our homes are outfitted with boundless surface area ripe for the accrual of stuff. We pay it no mind until…
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Joshua & Ryan talk about spouses, significant others, partners, boyfriends, girlfriends, and lovers, and they answer the following questions…
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Even as a decade-long minimalist, I still need to cull my excess from time to time, so I’ve been going through my clothes this week…
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In this short video, Joshua & Ryan discuss entitlement, perspectives, expectations, problems, and solutions…
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Joshua & Ryan sit down with Rachel Cruze, author of Love Your Life, Not Theirs, to discuss managing finances, eliminating debt, and the avoiding the comparison trap, and they answer the following questions…
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Whenever something is going wrong, whenever I’m not getting the desired outcome, whenever I need support, these five words help more than anything else…
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The rhythm of life is not unlike a heartbeat. When everything is running smoothly, a balanced existence oscillates from productive to phlegmatic. So, The Minimalists are experimenting with a new kind of digital sabbatical…
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