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By Joshua Fields Millburn · Follow: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram

Our things should add value to our lives: they should augment, enhance, or amplify our experiences…

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The struggle to feel complete, and why more stuff isn’t the answer…

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By Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus · Follow: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram

The Minimalists are contributing to a twelve-month simple-living course…

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By Joshua Fields Millburn · Follow: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google+

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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By Joshua Fields Millburn · Follow: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google+

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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By Joshua Fields Millburn · Follow: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google+

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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By Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus · Follow: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram

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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By Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus · Follow: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram

Don’t miss these 75 podcast episodes about minimalism…

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By Joshua Fields Millburn · Follow: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google+

If you’re anything like me, you tend to keep an overabundance of photos on your smartphone. Now that everything is digital, you don’t even think about it…

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By Joshua Fields Millburn · Follow: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google+

As our to-do lists grow, it seems we must be superheroes—or high-functioning sociopaths—to be “effective” people. I feel the pressure, too…

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By Joshua Fields Millburn · Follow: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google+

Being a minimalist doesn’t mean you’ll never buy anything new. It means you’ll do so with intention. It also means you’ll let go aggressively and deliberately…

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By Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus · Follow: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram

Consumerism encourages us to commodify our own identities…

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By Joshua Fields Millburn · Follow: Facebook, Instagram Updated December 8, 2023

We get weekly emails asking us how to start a blog. Here is our simple, step-by-step process for learning how to become a blogger.

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By Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus · Follow: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram

We’re often asked about the average day of a minimalist…

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By Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus · Follow: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram

We look around our homes and see everything we once wanted—everything that was supposed to makes our lives happy and better and complete. And now they’re collecting dust. Unused…

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By Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus · Follow: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram

A simple life involves, perhaps above anything else, the deliberate use of resources. To inspire you in that effort, we fashioned a handy acronym to help you identify and budget your most precious resources…

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By Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus · Follow: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram

All three of our simple-living books are now available as audiobooks…

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By Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus · Follow: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram

The iconic Nike slogan “Just Do It” is famous for a reason—like any helpful maxim, it’s instructive, pithy, and simple. But what if you don’t know what “it” is?

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By Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus · Follow: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram

Dave Ramsey asked us to join him on his radio show. Watch the full episode…

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Guest Essay by Colin Wright

Most decisions we make can be traced back to our desire to be happy. But happiness is a fuzzy term, and is often conflated with a collection of other terms: fulfillment, pleasure, contentment, and satisfaction…

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By Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus · Follow: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram

In just a few weeks, we will hit the road for our three-city Simply Southern Tour, and we’re bringing some special guests with us to talk about finances, budgeting, saving, investing, and debt…

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By Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus · Follow: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram

Before committing to the next purchase, ask yourself five questions…

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