Listening a year later, sobering to see how far we have come in dealing with the health crisis, on the one side. On the other, startling to see the polarization those same measures have caused. Your wisdom is always on target though. I am nearing 70, my husband and I live in France in an 800 sq ft apartment, and we absolutely love it. We will never go back to the the 2800 sq ft home we owned in the US. Its been a journey, we first sold that huge house in 2008, worth it. Thanks for all your good work.
Great podcast guys. I minimized 8 years ago, for practical reasons (I was moving out of home to rent it out.). It's one of the most liberating experiences of my life. Several years later mum downsized & moved house & I basically cleared out all the excess.. She now loves her small apartment, she says "everything I can see has value.'
Often on minimalist videos I see comments from people around the world saying "This must be an American thing because this is how we live." I would love to see you interview guests from around the world to discuss this more in depth.
I have been a minimalist since the early 70s. I grew up as a military brat. We never knew when or where we were going to move. so I had a small trunk and if what i had didnt fit in the trunk it didnt go. But i saw more cultures and did more things well into the 80s. I got to see Indonesia, lived in the phillipines, hong kong and Europe. The only time i felt culture shock was when we spent a year in Des Moine Iowa. My whole family to this day are minimalists and we think like minimalsts. We just never knew we were minimalists.
I have been trying to buy only the essentials for almost two years now. I found ordering random things from Amazon was a major distraction. I have noticed that getting rid of my Amazon prime account has been a game-changer for me. With the prime account, I could order those small things within $5-10 range but now that I don't have the prime account, I wait till the bill adds up to $25 in order to get that free shipping. I usually lose the urge to buy many things during the waiting periods. This has really helped me to buy only the essentials. Also when I need to look up for anything online I use the incognito mode so that I am not providing free data to those companies and the social media add situation has been more manageable.
The question is not if we need new answers I would rather say we need new thoughts new questions and some things don't have an answer Great video. Please never stop, I love this channel. Hugs from Argentina 💕
I think Neo minimalism is going to be about going back to basics and re-evaluating what it really means. I feel like as of 2020 minimalism has been perverted and sucked into the marketing scene once it hit mainstream. It's a buzzword now where it's an aesthetic on pinterest and mostly about what to buy or how to look a certain way or make it for into a consumerist world instead of the other way around. People who get into minimalism who mean well are still mad at others for having purple bedsheets or using TWO chairs in their house!! 😱 I'm a baby minimalist but even I can see the point has been lost and this time during quarantine is a time to reflect on what we need and what will make a valuable life.
I completely agree with deleting Amazon Prime. I found myself buying something new every week and not using them... All because it was "free shipping by tomorrow if you pay by midnight". I also just got your guys first book on Kindle, which is a great way to read a lot without buying physical books! Can't wait to start reading it tomorrow 😄
We started on this journey when we moved from Amsterdam to London. Since then every time we moved we organised our stuff. Every single time focusing on what we wanted to keep and not what we wanted to get rid off. Now we are finally getting close to what we are more comfortable with. Full disclosure, two adults with disabilities that both study full time and have a toddler, saving up and paying off debt is almost hilarious. Investing kind of a joke. Not impossible, but nearly impossible. A lot of people with disabilities live on the brink of poverty. Minorities don’t get me started. That’s why we went back to school though, because holding up your hands will keep you in poverty. Minimalism is a necessary and inspirational. But since my partner and I both have Asian roots and we’re raised in the Netherlands also an actual cultural thing.
Ooh Ryan! Your pithy answer... I have struggled with this for years, I have beaten myself up over this mental pull I have in my head between the minimalist and the interior designer and I feel like you actually just gave me permission to relax and enjoy the best of both worlds... I’ve felt that creating the home I desire was contradictory to my beliefs of minimalism 🙏🏻 I feel like I can finally marry the two together and move forward now. There is a level of self criticism I haven’t been able to let go of and for some reason you just gave me the foresight of how to do so... thank you!
I am so glad I started minimizing with my wife about 4 years ago. We now have two children and I am about to quit my job in order to study for a change in my field of work (i&o psychology => therapy). My wife will provide the main source of income for that time. Due to us minizing so much, we now have the freedom to risk such things.
"That's like America, Pt. 2!" If us Canadians weren't known for being peacekeepers, those would be fighting words, Ryan. I use my wish list on Prime like a bookmark. I don't put things in my shopping cart until I'm actually ready to purchase. I compare brands, read reviews, search TH-cam for video reviews for the item to get a better idea what the item is and how it works. Sometimes I have accidentally put something in my cart, but I go to the cart and transfer it to the wish list. Some items have stayed there for days, weeks, or even months. If I still want the item, I do another sweep of the competition to be sure that this item is the best value. Then I make my purchase. I have made sure not to set up "One Click Checkout" to ensure that I cannot have an all out impulse moment, that way, until I have a confirmation of a purchase, I can back out of the transaction at any point along the process. Unfortunately, I haven't been so disciplined with in-store shopping, which is why I am currently decluttering my closets (I have enough clothes to open my own chain of stores) and the rest of my possessions (if I haven't technically reached hoarding, I'm on the brink). I'm not aiming for minimalism, just order and contentment.
Dr Bronner's is the best! Something like 17 uses. I'm allergic to perfume so I use it mostly as hand and body soap. When you said everything has the potential to be of value to us, that really hit home. That's the excuse for keeping all those just in case items.
I don't know if it is just me, but I think you should use a lighter background or just more light because my screen is on maximum brightness and I barely see a thing in your podcast videos except for Josh's forehead and hair. Anyway, keep up the good work, love you guys!
Personally, I see everything just fine, so it could be your computer, but I think it's deliberately done this way, so you can focus more on what they see & less on how they look.
Heard about wish lists, and that brings to mind about a friend. They got a wish list and tried to get me to have one too. But I was able to avoid that idea with my Deny Deny Deny Budget method. Thus, I was able to save money and avoided any urges to spend
Happy Birthday in advance, Joshua :) I'm not sure what bday gift to get you as I've already left a review last year on the apple podcast, 10 stars :D Lovely episode, thank you both. Love & Respect.
I do put things in my cart at Amazon BUT I buy things only at the beginning of month (it coincides with the credit card beginning of the new pay period (2 months free loan predicated to PAYING OFF CREDIT CARD EVERY MONTH)). At that time I look at what's in the cart. It's amazing how much I get rid of from the cart. I also place things in "save for later" items if the cart is too expensive but want to buy later. I also delete items out of the "save for later" too. There are times when I don't buy anything from Amazon for months at a time. Also, NO AMAZON PRIME! I wait the 7 days for my items. I can wait.
Listening a year later, sobering to see how far we have come in dealing with the health crisis, on the one side. On the other, startling to see the polarization those same measures have caused. Your wisdom is always on target though. I am nearing 70, my husband and I live in France in an 800 sq ft apartment, and we absolutely love it. We will never go back to the the 2800 sq ft home we owned in the US. Its been a journey, we first sold that huge house in 2008, worth it. Thanks for all your good work.
Great podcast guys. I minimized 8 years ago, for practical reasons (I was moving out of home to rent it out.). It's one of the most liberating experiences of my life.
Several years later mum downsized & moved house & I basically cleared out all the excess.. She now loves her small apartment, she says "everything I can see has value.'
Often on minimalist videos I see comments from people around the world saying "This must be an American thing because this is how we live." I would love to see you interview guests from around the world to discuss this more in depth.
I have been a minimalist since the early 70s. I grew up as a military brat. We never knew when or where we were going to move. so I had a small trunk and if what i had didnt fit in the trunk it didnt go. But i saw more cultures and did more things well into the 80s. I got to see Indonesia, lived in the phillipines, hong kong and Europe. The only time i felt culture shock was when we spent a year in Des Moine Iowa. My whole family to this day are minimalists and we think like minimalsts. We just never knew we were minimalists.
"willing to walk away from anything", great point!
I have been trying to buy only the essentials for almost two years now. I found ordering random things from Amazon was a major distraction. I have noticed that getting rid of my Amazon prime account has been a game-changer for me. With the prime account, I could order those small things within $5-10 range but now that I don't have the prime account, I wait till the bill adds up to $25 in order to get that free shipping. I usually lose the urge to buy many things during the waiting periods. This has really helped me to buy only the essentials.
Also when I need to look up for anything online I use the incognito mode so that I am not providing free data to those companies and the social media add situation has been more manageable.
The question is not if we need new answers I would rather say we need new thoughts new questions and some things don't have an answer
Great video. Please never stop, I love this channel.
Hugs from Argentina 💕
I love these two guys integrity and honesty. You are both a real blessing 🙏🙏
I think Neo minimalism is going to be about going back to basics and re-evaluating what it really means. I feel like as of 2020 minimalism has been perverted and sucked into the marketing scene once it hit mainstream. It's a buzzword now where it's an aesthetic on pinterest and mostly about what to buy or how to look a certain way or make it for into a consumerist world instead of the other way around. People who get into minimalism who mean well are still mad at others for having purple bedsheets or using TWO chairs in their house!! 😱
I'm a baby minimalist but even I can see the point has been lost and this time during quarantine is a time to reflect on what we need and what will make a valuable life.
I completely agree with deleting Amazon Prime. I found myself buying something new every week and not using them... All because it was "free shipping by tomorrow if you pay by midnight".
I also just got your guys first book on Kindle, which is a great way to read a lot without buying physical books! Can't wait to start reading it tomorrow 😄
I love Ryan's pithy answer - you'll survive with your essential items but you'll thrive with what adds value
We started on this journey when we moved from Amsterdam to London. Since then every time we moved we organised our stuff. Every single time focusing on what we wanted to keep and not what we wanted to get rid off. Now we are finally getting close to what we are more comfortable with. Full disclosure, two adults with disabilities that both study full time and have a toddler, saving up and paying off debt is almost hilarious. Investing kind of a joke. Not impossible, but nearly impossible. A lot of people with disabilities live on the brink of poverty. Minorities don’t get me started. That’s why we went back to school though, because holding up your hands will keep you in poverty. Minimalism is a necessary and inspirational. But since my partner and I both have Asian roots and we’re raised in the Netherlands also an actual cultural thing.
Ooh Ryan! Your pithy answer... I have struggled with this for years, I have beaten myself up over this mental pull I have in my head between the minimalist and the interior designer and I feel like you actually just gave me permission to relax and enjoy the best of both worlds... I’ve felt that creating the home I desire was contradictory to my beliefs of minimalism 🙏🏻 I feel like I can finally marry the two together and move forward now. There is a level of self criticism I haven’t been able to let go of and for some reason you just gave me the foresight of how to do so... thank you!
I am so glad I started minimizing with my wife about 4 years ago. We now have two children and I am about to quit my job in order to study for a change in my field of work (i&o psychology => therapy). My wife will provide the main source of income for that time. Due to us minizing so much, we now have the freedom to risk such things.
"That's like America, Pt. 2!" If us Canadians weren't known for being peacekeepers, those would be fighting words, Ryan. I use my wish list on Prime like a bookmark. I don't put things in my shopping cart until I'm actually ready to purchase. I compare brands, read reviews, search TH-cam for video reviews for the item to get a better idea what the item is and how it works. Sometimes I have accidentally put something in my cart, but I go to the cart and transfer it to the wish list. Some items have stayed there for days, weeks, or even months. If I still want the item, I do another sweep of the competition to be sure that this item is the best value. Then I make my purchase. I have made sure not to set up "One Click Checkout" to ensure that I cannot have an all out impulse moment, that way, until I have a confirmation of a purchase, I can back out of the transaction at any point along the process. Unfortunately, I haven't been so disciplined with in-store shopping, which is why I am currently decluttering my closets (I have enough clothes to open my own chain of stores) and the rest of my possessions (if I haven't technically reached hoarding, I'm on the brink). I'm not aiming for minimalism, just order and contentment.
Dr Bronner's is the best! Something like 17 uses. I'm allergic to perfume so I use it mostly as hand and body soap.
When you said everything has the potential to be of value to us, that really hit home. That's the excuse for keeping all those just in case items.
I don't know if it is just me, but I think you should use a lighter background or just more light because my screen is on maximum brightness and I barely see a thing in your podcast videos except for Josh's forehead and hair.
Anyway, keep up the good work, love you guys!
Personally, I see everything just fine, so it could be your computer, but I think it's deliberately done this way, so you can focus more on what they see & less on how they look.
what they *say*
Heard about wish lists, and that brings to mind about a friend. They got a wish list and tried to get me to have one too. But I was able to avoid that idea with my Deny Deny Deny Budget method. Thus, I was able to save money and avoided any urges to spend
Happy Birthday in advance, Joshua :) I'm not sure what bday gift to get you as I've already left a review last year on the apple podcast, 10 stars :D Lovely episode, thank you both. Love & Respect.
Thank you!
@@TheMinimalists My pleasure 😍
First flushable toilet was invented in early 1500s apparently. So it was available 500 years ago :D
Cleaning--I just use orange peel in vinager and bicarb and warm water. I use a steam cleaner or just soap and water. Keeping it simple and eco!
Great show !! Ryan, maybe look into buying a small compact solar powered jackery, or the like, for earthquakes/emergencies
I sure didn't see or believe that this craziness is coming through our 2020, but I do want to believe that 2020 will be better years ahead,
Dave Ramsey is right, we should always have a budget, plus just live simple
I would like your book on tape in How to walk away
Appreciate your honesty and some censorship to help aid in healing communities is "
"essential".
I do put things in my cart at Amazon BUT I buy things only at the beginning of month (it coincides with the credit card beginning of the new pay period (2 months free loan predicated to PAYING OFF CREDIT CARD EVERY MONTH)). At that time I look at what's in the cart. It's amazing how much I get rid of from the cart. I also place things in "save for later" items if the cart is too expensive but want to buy later. I also delete items out of the "save for later" too. There are times when I don't buy anything from Amazon for months at a time. Also, NO AMAZON PRIME! I wait the 7 days for my items. I can wait.
Thanks, I really like your podcast!
Hello can you please direct me to the Arizona episode number on your Patreon? I can’t find it.
Lovely podcast. Had to laugh about the graph for rich people. Stockzzzzz.
Hi can somebody link me this music video Joshua is talking about?
Show notes here: minimalists.com/p238
Can neo minimalism be the way to go?
as far as i know that there is not any sort of episode is made yet with respective to the fear how it can be overcome.
I love you guys.
hope his sisters debt gets better
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