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It's a minimalist Monday edition of Optimal Finance Daily, episode 331, is your stuff holding you back?

By Jacob Lundfisker of Early Retirement Extreme.com, and I am your host, Dan, I'm here each Monday through Friday, reading to you from some of the best personal finance blogs on the planet.

For now, let's hear today's post as we optimize your life. wife.

Is your stuff holding you back?

By Jacob Lundfisker of Early Retirement Extreme.com

Are your sofa and TV your best friends? You could change that. You can break free from the clutches of society and live well on a very modest amount of money if you simply give up most of the junk most of us cart around.

That's a quote from how to live like a gypsy by

Mengro, the road scholar.

I encourage you to read the article and also

check out the rest of the site.

Some of the converted vans are pure genius in how to maximize space and utility.

Nevertheless, after mulling it over, I don't think that I am the traveling type and neither is DW.

Also, there would be too much stress for me in dealing with people and authorities that are incapable of understanding and accepting this particular kind of lifestyle.

Maybe someday people will stop being afraid of things that they do not understand and

stop trying to outlaw things that are different.

Yet this is not the case yet, so for me, the van is out.

Still, it is at least possible to say no to more stuff without being persecuted,

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