![]() And, per Marissa Zen, who runs minimal living blog Squirrels of a Feather, minimalism is also not just about physical clutter. You also don’t have to live in a tiny house, decorate in only neutral colors, or never walk into a retail store again in order to practice minimalism. But everything I own adds real value to my life,” he explains. He owns a phone, laptop, clothes, books, and beyond but has found a way to eliminate the excess. ![]() If you were to walk into his home, Fields-Millburn says you probably wouldn’t proclaim, “Oh my God that guy’s a minimalist.” You would simply think he’s very organized. “So ultimately minimalism is about reprioritizing and eventually healing our relationship with our material possessions, so that we can actually use them instead of all of our things using and stressing us out along the way.” “The problem is if everything is valuable, then nothing is valuable,” he says. Fields-Millburn explains that he and Nicodemus aren’t against owning things. Minimalism mythsĬontrary to popular belief, minimalism is not living in deprivation in a stark white house with zero furniture. Minimalism helps you pair down to only what you consider important to your life and challenges you to give anything that isn’t serving you, or as Kondo puts it “sparking joy," the boot. And all the knickknacks you’ve collected throughout the years sit on shelves that need frequent dusting. Your latest tech gadget requires continuous updating and charging. For instance, the new treadmill you bought may make you cringe every time you walk by it without hopping on. And in addition to the initial purchase cost, these things require constant attention, like storing them, cleaning and maintaining them, replacing batteries or parts, and feeling guilty about not using them. The average American household, says Fields Millburn, has 300,000 items. The duo, who runs a popular podcast and recently authored their latest book, Love People, Use Things: Because the Opposite Never Works, define minimalism as “the thing that gets us past the things so we can make room for life's important things – which actually aren't things at all.” Joshua Fields Millburn, along with his counterpart, Ryan Nicodemus, helps people “live meaningful lives with less” as The Minimalists. But what is minimalism? Do you have to get rid of everything you own to be a minimalist? And what value does paring down your stuff bring to your life? Here is an introduction to the movement. After Marie Kondo, author of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, got her own Netflix show in 2019, people became so obsessed with going through their closets and drawers that her name became verb: “I can’t hang out this weekend because I’m Marie Kondoing my house.” And now, people are starting to turn towards the concept of minimalism. And in recent years, there has been a push towards simplifying. It has inspired organizing and purging parties. ![]() Being stuck inside during the pandemic has made many of us aware of the vast amount of things that we have in our homes.
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