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- 90/90 Minimalism Rule
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- A Day in the Life of a Minimalist
- A Few Book Recommendations from The Minimalists
- A Meaningful Birthday Gift
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- A Minimalist Approach to Technology
- A Minimalist, a Japanese Cowboy, and an Arrogant American Walk into a Museum
- A Minimalist’s Thoughts on Diet
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- A Minimalist’s Thoughts On Money
- A Month of Minimalism
- A Question About Conspicuous Consumption
- A Quiet Place
- A Rolex Won’t Give You More Time
- A Simple Year
- A Simpler Family Life: Starting Life Anew with Our Six Kids
- A Sort of Gift Nobody Asked For
- A Special Kind of Freedom
- A Well-Edited Life
- A Year End Review: How Everything Can Change in a Year
- Accomplishments Without Goals
- Adding Value
- Addressing Pressure from Family Members
- Adequate
- Advertisements Suck
- After the Stuff
- After the Tragedy
- Alone Time
- An Apology and the Need to Say No
- An Apple Watch Won’t Give You More Time
- An Extremely Fun Thing We’ll Probably Never Get to Do Again
- An Irresponsible Christmas
- Analog Video: Screenless Saturdays
- And for My Next Magic Trick…
- Ask for Better Christmas Presents
- Ask Not What You Can Get, Ask How You Can Give
- Asking Friends and Family to Embrace Change
- Authentic People
- Back to Basics
- Balance of Attraction: Simple Thoughts on Dating for Men and Women
- Be on the Mountain
- Because I Deserve It!
- Becoming Who We Need to Be
- Better Questions
- Biggest Failures
- Blogs, Books, & Businesses—Oh, My!
- Building Your Trust Muscle
- Buy a Brick for Christmas
- Buy This Thing
- Can I Get Him to Stop Watching TV?
- Can I Get Something?
- Can We Have an Honest Conversation About Advertisements?
- Can You Imagine a Minimalist President?
- Celebrating 100,000 Readers
- Changes in the Rearview
- Channel Surfing
- Check Email Like a Minimalist
- Clear Your Damn Plate
- Cola and Politics
- Collecting Is Dangerous
- Comments Killed the Internet Star
- Compassion for Hypocrites
- Considering the Audience
- Constructing an Extraordinary Life
- Consumerism
- Consumerism Is the Original Virtue Signaling
- Consumption Is Not the Problem
- Costs and Benefits of Awareness
- Counting Material Possessions
- Course Correction
- Create More, Consume Less
- Create Your Masterpiece: A 16-Step Guide
- Creating Daily Writing Habits
- Creations Over Consumer Goods
- Crisis of Meaning
- Dan Harris on the Utility of Worry
- Dark Friday
- Dealing with Digital Clutter
- Dear Critics
- Debt-Free
- Deciding to Live with Less
- Decluttering Doesn’t Work
- Decluttering Mental Clutter
- Delete 1,000 Photos in 11 Days
- Deleting Music
- Developing Ears for Travel
- Digital Clutter Is Different from Physical Clutter
- Diminishing Value
- Dislike, Discomfort
- Do I Want to Keep This?
- Does Minimalism Make You Complacent?
- Does This Add Value to My Life?
- Don’t Buy Stuff You Cannot Afford
- Don’t Collect All Three!
- Don’t Flinch
- Don’t Upgrade
- Downsize Your Life, Live Your Dream
- Easiest Way to Organize Your Stuff
- Eating Healthy on a Budget
- Elementary and Grad School
- Email for Minimalists
- Ending the Tyranny of Cool
- Enoughism, Essentialism, and Other Names for Minimalism
- Eschewing Advertising in Favor of Authentic Marketing
- Essential Hour
- Essentials, Nonessentials, and Junk
- Establishing Deeper Connections
- Eudaemonia: A Better Kind of Happy
- Every Little Thing
- Every Other Never
- Everyday Minimalists
- Everything for Christmas
- Everything Hour
- Everything I Own: My 288 Things
- Everything Is 100% off If You Don’t Buy It
- Everything You Need
- Excess Is the Birthplace of Clutter
- Excessories
- Existential Clutter
- Fake Outrage: Dealing with Criticism
- Favorite Clothes of a Minimalist
- Feel Free to Unsubscribe, Unfollow
- Fight Club’s Tyler Durden Is a Minimalist
- Fighting the Voice in Your Head
- Financial Freedom: 5 Difficult Steps to Get Out of Debt, Create a Simple Budget, Plan for the Future, and Regain Control of Your Finances
- Financial Freedom: The Free Budgeting Ebook
- Finding a Mentor
- Finding Your Writing Voice
- First Thing in the Morning: Why I Wake at 3:30 A.M.
- Five Steps Toward a More Meaningful Holiday Season
- Food Is Not Entertainment
- Fool Price
- Forever Does Not Exist
- Forsake the Rest
- Free Local Meetup Groups Brought to You by The Minimalists
- Getting Laid Off from My Six-Figure Job Was Exactly What I Needed
- Getting Rid of Just-in-Case Items: 20 Dollars, 20 Minutes
- Gift a Smile
- Gift Experiences, Not Stuff
- Gift Love: Save $776 on Christmas Shopping This Year
- Giving Is Living
- Goodbye Fake Friends
- Gospel of Minimalism
- Greet Them with a Hug
- Growth Through Minimalism
- Habitual Complaining
- Haunted by Desire
- Have to, Get To
- Health Is a Vehicle, Not a Destination
- Helping Hands: Mark’s Story of Contribution
- Here, Have an Organ
- Hey Look at Me I’m Relevant Dammit!
- Holiday Shopping for Aspiring Minimalists
- Home Is Where the Red Phone Is
- How Do You Let Go?
- How Minimalism Is Changing Entrepreneurship
- How Much Is Enough?
- How The Minimalists Are Using Social Media
- How to Be Anxious
- How to Change Your Purchasing Decisions
- How to Go Clothes Shopping
- How to Improve Your Writing: 3 Tips
- How to Let Go of Possessions
- How to Make a Damn Decision
- How to Reach the End of the Internet
- How to Sleep Sitting Up
- How to Start a Successful Blog in 2020
- How to Start a Successful Podcast
- How to Understand Your Values
- How to Write Better: Online Workshop
- How to Write Better: Online Writing Class
- How We Woke Up
- I Could Never Do That!
- I Don’t Love You Anymore
- I Don’t Need Much
- I Got Rid of 2,000 Books and Started Reading More
- I Was Not a Minimalist, Until I Was
- I Will Always Be Okay
- Ideas for a Debt-Free Christmas
- If, Then
- Imagine Everything
- Imperfect Is the New Perfect
- In Too Deep
- Inbox Minimalism
- Inside the Prison Walls of Consumerism
- Intentional Relationships
- Is Location Independence Bullshit?
- Is Minimalism Just for Single, Rich, White Guys?
- Is This What You’ve Been Waiting for Your Entire Life?
- It’s 8:33 A.M.: Do You Know Where Your Productivity Is?
- It’s Complicated
- It’s Easy to Get What You Want
- Jealousy Is a Wasted Emotion
- Jeffersonian Minimalism: Thomas Jefferson’s 10 Rules for a Good Life
- Joy of Having Less: The Minimalists on the TODAY Show
- Just Do Something
- Just for When
- Killing Home Internet Is the Most Productive Thing I’ve Ever Done
- Killing Time
- Know Thy Neighbors
- Labels Are Necessary
- Last Minute Gift Ideas
- Learning to Let Go
- Less Clothes, More Routines
- Less Coast Tour 2020
- Less Stuff, More Sex
- Less, Less, Less, Less, Less, Less…
- Lessons from the Fall
- Let Go the Best You Can
- Let It Go
- Let’s Talk About Black Friday
- Let’s Talk About the Coronavirus
- Letting Go of Control
- Letting Go of Physical Gifts
- Letting Go of Sentimental Items
- Letting Go of Shitty Relationships
- Letting Go of Your DVD Collection
- Letting Go: Dealing with the Death of a Loved One
- Life After the Crash
- Life Is an Acquired Taste
- Life Is Like Riding a Bicycle
- Life Maintenance
- Life’s Most Dangerous Question: What Do You Do?
- Live Like Stan
- Live Simply
- Logos
- Loose Grip
- Love People Use Things
- Love People, Use Things
- LRC3
- Making Minimalism (Episode 1)
- Making Minimalism (Episode 2)
- Making Minimalism (Episode 3)
- Making Minimalism (Episode 4)
- Making Minimalism (Episode 5)
- Making Minimalism (Episode 6) | Q&A with The Minimalists and Director Matt D’Avella
- Making Money as a Writer Is a Curious Thing
- Marketing vs. Advertising
- Minimal Maxims
- Minimalism & Happiness Through Scientific Eyes
- Minimalism + Creativity (Announcement)
- Minimalism 2.0
- Minimalism for Families with Children
- Minimalism Is Healthy: How I Lost 70 Pounds
- Minimalism Is Not a Radical Lifestyle
- Minimalism Is Not the Path
- Minimalism Kills Fear
- Minimalism Life
- Minimalism Renewed
- Minimalism Saved My Life
- Minimalism Scares the Shit Out of Me
- Minimalism: An Elevator Pitch
- Minimalist Desktop
- Minimalist Family: 12 Useful Links
- Minimalist Family: Start With Yourself
- Minimalist Finances and Budgeting
- Minimalist Gift-Giving
- Minimalist Home Tour (Photos): JFM
- Minimalist Home Tour (Photos): Ryan Nicodemus
- Minimalist Home Tour (Video): Joshua Fields Millburn
- Minimalist Interview: Colin Wright
- Minimalist Interview: Karol Gajda
- Minimalist New Year’s Resolution
- Minimalist Resolution Update 1: January 2011
- Minimalist Resolution Update 2: February 2011
- Minimalist Resolution Update 3: March 2011
- Minimalist Resolution Update 4: April 2011
- Minimalist Rulebook
- Minimalist Rulebook (Audiobook)
- Minimalist Screens: Free Wallpapers for Your Smartphone and Desktop
- Minimalist Toolkit
- Missoula and the Third Minimalist
- Mistakes vs. Bad Decisions
- Money Does Not Buy Better Habits
- Money Doesn’t Buy Happiness, Neither Does Poverty
- More Complete
- More Is Less?
- More Wins Than Losses
- Most Emergencies Aren’t
- Motion Creates Emotion: 3 Simple Ways To Break Your Pattern
- Moving Beyond Goals
- Music + Minimalism
- My Exile Lifestyle: Interview with Colin Wright
- My Minimalist Workspace
- My Whole Process
- Need, Want, Like
- Never Happier
- Never Leave the Scene of a Good Idea Without Taking Action
- New to Minimalism? This Is a Great Place to Start
- Nightmares of a Perfectionist
- No Value in an Empty Room
- Nostalgia Is Dangerous
- Not a Natural
- Not Busy, Focused
- Not Utopia
- Nothing: Smartphone App
- Obsolete Things
- Of Course It’s Unreasonable, Dummy!
- Offbeat
- On Becoming a Better Writer
- On Living in Caves and Fighting Distractions
- One Thing Each Day
- Online Congruency
- Only Rats Win the Rat Race
- Oops!
- Order Minimalism Documentary Online, Receive 6 Hours of Bonus Content
- Organizing Is Well-Planned Hoarding
- Our New YouTube Channel
- Overcoming Self-Doubt
- Pack Like The Minimalists
- Packing Party: Unpack a Simpler Life
- Pendulums and Extremes
- Permission to Let Go
- Photo Tour: The Minimalists Open a Coffeehouse
- Photo-Scanning Party
- Play the 30-Day Minimalism Game
- Please Masturbate in Your Own Room
- Post-Post-Minimalism: An Interview
- Preaching to the Congregation
- Prepared to Walk Away
- Prime Optimist
- PSA from The Minimalists
- Pushing Through Frustration: Why I’m Getting Rid of My Phone
- Quarantine Qasts
- Questioning Stuff
- Questions to Ask Before Purchasing
- Quitting Your Job Is Easy
- Reacting to Minimalism
- Ready for Spring Cleaning?
- Ready. Set. Let Go!
- Real Priorities
- Reasons I Don’t Own a TV
- Reasons to Avoid Photographs During Vacation
- Reclaim Your Time
- Redefining Better
- Repaying Intellectual Debt
- Reprogramming the Twitch
- Resolve to Write More This Year: 5 Important Articles About Writing
- Resolving to Learn from Failure
- Retirement Planning: How to Plan for a Successful Retirement
- Right Here, Right Now
- Ryan Nicodemus Owns Almost Nothing (Video)
- Sam Harris on Focus
- Scared to Death of Death: The Important Things We Postpone
- Screenless Saturdays
- Scrolling Is the New Smoking
- Seagulls
- Searching for False Truth
- Security Is a Misnomer
- Self-Restraint as a Virtue
- Shifting from a Culture of Excess to a Culture of Access
- Shopping or Finding Meaning
- Side Project: Minimalism Life
- Simple Triggers
- Singing Stones: Finding Life’s Beauty and Meaning
- Sivers on Simplicity
- Sleep, Sex, and Reruns
- Small Losses
- Some Thoughts About the Holiday Shopping Season
- Someday
- Soulful Simplicity
- Spring Minimizing
- Start with the Easy Shit
- Stimulate the Economy Like a Minimalist
- Stoicism and Minimalism
- Stop Trying
- Struggling with Choices
- Successfool
- Support The Minimalists
- Take It Simple
- Take It to the River
- Take the Red Pill: Embrace Minimalism
- Taking Back the Morning
- Tangled Sounds
- Techochamber
- Tell a Better Story: 3 Tricks that Aren’t Tricks at All
- Thanks. Giving.
- The 14th Minimalist
- The 30/30 Rule
- The Actual Cost of Owning a Thing
- The Beauty of Starting a Micro-Business
- The Becker Family on Deciding to Live as a Minimalist Household
- The Benefits of Minimalism
- The Best Present Is Presence
- The Blackest of Fridays
- The Commodification of Love
- The Compelling Beauty of Free
- The Consumption Continuum
- The Cycle of Letting Go
- The Death of the Marketing Penny: Avoiding Silly Advertising Tricks
- The Definition of Success
- The Details
- The Discomfort Zone
- The End of the World Is Right Past the Horizon
- The Falling Thing
- The Four Paths
- The Great Cleanup
- The High Price of Pursuing My Dream
- The Idea Guy
- The Impact Equation
- The Invention of Our Discontent
- The Irony of Minimalism
- The Joy and the Car
- The Man Who Dies with the Most Stuff
- The Mess We Made in Rochester
- The Million Dollar Joke
- The Minimalism Paradox
- The Minimalists Are Building a School
- The Minimalists Join Dave Ramsey
- The Minimalists Unscripted
- The Minimalists’ Favorite Coffee
- The Minimalists’ Favorite Podcasts
- The Most Recent Thing Decluttered
- The New American Dream
- The Number One Lesson of Minimalism
- The Official Minimalist T-Shirt
- The Power of a Hug
- The Pressure We Put on Ourselves
- The Problem with Common Sense
- The Problem with Corporations
- The quickest way to give yourself a pay raise
- The Rats in the Tunnel
- The Right Kind of Fame
- The Rule of Two
- The Rules We Live By
- The Short Guide to Getting Rid of Your Crap
- The Sound of Irrelevance
- The Sound of Life
- The Spatula: Possessions Ultimately Dispossess
- The Success Template
- The Surface Rules: Two Ways to Avoid Household Clutter
- The Taste of Health
- The Troubling Nature of Pop Culture
- The Tweet That Changed My Life
- The UnAmerican Dream
- The Worst Christmas Ever
- The Worst Thing That Could Happen
- There Will Be Bruises
- They’re All Just a Bunch of Hippies!
- This Is Also Not a Promotion
- This Page Left Intentionally Blank
- This Probably Isn’t for You
- This Year Beat the Crap Out of Me and It Was Awesome
- Threading the Needle
- TIME for Minimalism
- Too Many Screens
- Too Much Branding These Days
- Too Weak to Say Sorry
- Tour My Minimalist Apartment
- Tour The Minimalists’ Montana Cabin: A Photo Essay
- Turn Down the Volume
- Turning a Passion into a Profession
- Two Years Later
- Under the Influence of Impulse
- Understanding Others
- Unpacking Minimalism: The Wallet
- Unsolicited Discharge
- Unteachers
- Updated Beliefs
- Valuable Things
- Video & Audio: Meetup with The Minimalists
- Video: Q&A with The Minimalists
- Video: We Made a Thing
- Video: What’s in a Minimalist’s Travel Bag?
- Vying for Attention
- Waking Up: Sam Harris Discusses the Benefits of Mindfulness
- Walk a Mile in My Blisters
- Wallpaper: You Can’t Change the People Around You, but You Can Change the People Around You
- We Can’t Fix the Problem with the Problem
- We Have No Problems
- We Love to Say Hi and Buy Less
- What a Game!
- What Happens when a Minimalist Moves in with His Girlfriend?
- What If You Accidentally Spilled Bleach on Half Your Wardrobe?
- What Is Clutter?
- What Is My Outcome?
- What Is Your Mission?
- What It Feels Like to No Longer Worry About Money
- What the Hell Are You Talking About?
- What Things Can You Get Rid Of?
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Minimalism
- What Would Happen If You Just Let Go?
- When Everything Is Your Favorite Thing
- When Goals Are Important and When They Are Not
- When Would Today Be a Good Day to Start?
- Who Am I Buying This For?
- Who The Hell Reads Your Blog Anyway?
- Who to Emulate?
- Who’s Preventing You from Being Totally Free?
- Why Did We Stop Reading?
- Why I Walked Away from My Six-Figure Career
- Why Is My Phone About to Die?
- Why?
- Woodshedding and the Pseudo-Thoreau Thing: Moving to Montana
- Worthy
- Would You Be Willing To?
- Would You Buy It Again?
- WWJD: What Would Joshua Do?
- Yes This Is Real
- You Are Here
- You Are Not Impressing Me
- You Are Not Your Khakis
- You Are What You Desire
- You Aren’t Entitled to Anything
- You Don’t Have To Explain Yourself
- You Should See My Car
- Your Five Most Precious Resources
- Your Own Advice Is the Hardest Pill to Swallow
- Your Past Does Not Equal Your Future
Guest Essays on Other Sites
- 10 Lessons From Publishing the #1 Bestselling Short Story (Think Traffic)
- 100 Days with No Goals (Zen Habits)
- A Day in the Life of a Minimalist (Zen Habits)
- Don't Pursue Your Passion (AskMen)
- Everybody Worships Something (Becoming Minimalist)
- Grow Yourself, Not Your Stuff (Positively Positive)
- Homework: Start Your Masterpiece (In Over Your Head)
- I Am Not The Center Of The Universe (Exile Lifestyle)
- Launching a Book in Real Time (Asymmetrical)
- Let Freedom Ring with Minimalism (Be More With Less)
- Letting Go Of Sentimental Items (Rowdy Kittens)
- Real Life Minimalists (Miss Minimalist)
- Russian Version of Live a Meaningful Life (Synderesis)
- Screw You, I Quit! (Illuminated Mind)
- Simplicity in Action (Be More with Less)
- Stop Living the Lie; Start Living the Life (In Over Your Head)
- The Downside of Minimalism (Be More With Less)
- The Minimalist Secret to Productive Writing (Goins, Writer)
- The Short, 16-Step Guide to Getting Rid of Your Crap (In Over Your Head)
