219 | Spring Clutter
The Minimalists
Joshua Fields Millburn
4.7 • 11.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Joshua and Ryan get back to basics for spring cleaning and discuss decluttering, organizing, and letting go of excess stuff, and they answer the following questions:
How can I help my parents embrace decluttering? (01:01)
How do I tactfully tell my family I don’t want to inherit their belongings? (10:57)
How can I save mementos and still be clutter-free? (20:48)
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| 0:00.0 | Don Minimists |
| 0:31.0 | Hello, simple tens. I'm Joshua Philzmilburn and I'm Ryan Nicodemus and together we are the minimalist you know Ryan spring cleaning is right around the corner |
| 0:42.0 | But we need and wait until spring we need an even wait till tomorrow to declutter our homes and today |
| 0:48.0 | We're starting to get back to the basics |
| 0:50.0 | So this is just you and me in the studio. We're gonna talk about decluttering |
| 0:54.0 | We're gonna talk about organizing and we're gonna talk about letting go of excess stuff |
| 0:59.0 | We've got a lot of questions today. So let's jump right in the first one is from John and Oakland |
| 1:04.0 | I had a question about my parents kind of go into more meaningful life |
| 1:09.0 | I have done so myself luckily I just had a big move right about the time I was thinking about selling it to the hotel |
| 1:14.0 | And getting rid of my opposition and it was great and I was talking to my parents about it |
| 1:18.0 | I found out my dad is very much a adjusted taste guy |
| 1:21.0 | That is really a very good his core |
| 1:24.0 | He's a big goes and buys Christmas lights the day after Christmas they can have them |
| 1:29.0 | You know spend a little less money on it overall and then he like I can't see himself like a little bit of like a Santa Claus I guess |
| 1:36.0 | He's anytime anybody has any problems or they have a question you know in their own or how he can |
| 1:40.0 | You can walk him down to the basement like I think this might help and it does and feels great |
| 1:44.0 | I don't know how much it happens to him anymore but I know that that is a big part of kind of how he sees identity and like the neighborhood and stuff |
| 1:50.0 | I was wondering you know when you say that what's the worst they happen to get rid of this stuff |
| 1:53.0 | Well you know the one answer is I like oh well you know he won't have a bunch of stuff in his basement where like he can go and guess up |
| 1:59.0 | But really like I think that he does type a lot of identity and you know he's 70 years old |
| 2:03.0 | I don't know if I can convince him to the middle of the thing because of the way of life |
| 2:08.0 | And I get the philosophy because you know he's just I think he might just be happy with kind of where he is |
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