314 | Luxury Items
The Minimalists
Joshua Fields Millburn
4.7 • 11.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Joshua and Ryan talk about so-called luxury items—desiring them, purchasing them, clinging to them, understanding them, and letting go of them—and they answer the following questions:
How do you define “luxury item”? (01:10)
How do we differentiate between luxury, elegance, and trendy? (06:04)
As my fiance and I are creating our wedding registry, how do we ensure we don’t fall into the trap of exploiting the kindness of others for luxury items that will just fill the areas we just decluttered? (11:09)
What is “expensive pain”? (13:23)
What is an “alternative registry”? (15:44)
Is crowdsourcing a reasonable way to fund a honeymoon? (17:07)
Why do some pursue luxury instead of living within their means? (20:29)
What is “low-grade misery”? (36:02)
What is the ultimate luxury? (36:49)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Minimizers. |
| 0:10.6 | Welcome to the Minimals Podcast where we discuss what it means to live a meaningful |
| 0:15.0 | life with less. |
| 0:16.4 | My name is Joshua Fields-Milber and I'm Ryan Nicodemus and together we are the Minimalists. |
| 0:23.0 | Is there a luxury item that you'd purchase right now if you had unlimited money? |
| 0:28.1 | If so, what is it? |
| 0:29.7 | And today's podcast episode, we're going to talk about so-called luxury items, desiring |
| 0:35.0 | them, purchasing them, clinging to them, understanding them, and ultimately letting go of them. |
| 0:42.2 | Then this Thursday on the Minimals Private Podcast, Ryan and I are going to talk about |
| 0:46.0 | the emotional and psychological pain that arises when we constantly need more stuff. |
| 0:52.7 | We're also going to talk about the luxury items that both of us would purchase immediately |
| 0:57.2 | if we had unlimited money. |
| 0:58.8 | You can check that out at patreon.com slash the Minimals. |
| 1:02.8 | Your support keeps our podcast and YouTube channel 100% advertisement free because advertisements |
| 1:10.5 | suck. |
| 1:11.5 | Our first question today is from Patty. |
| 1:14.2 | How do you define luxury item? |
| 1:16.6 | Is a $200 leather purse considered a luxury when it will outlast any cheap plastic purse? |
| 1:23.5 | Well, Patty, I think this is such an interesting question to start the episode off with. |
| 1:27.8 | Now Ryan, when you hear the word luxury, it can conjure up all kinds of images. |
| 1:33.1 | Now I think when people talk about luxury, they're often talking about two different things. |
| 1:36.6 | It's either I really high in something high in, high quality sometimes. |
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