477 | Living Room Clutter

The Minimalists

Joshua Fields Millburn

Finances, Home & Garden, Leisure, Mental Health, Minimalism, Contribution, Passion, Minimalists, Health & Fitness, Decluttering, Philosophy, Health, Relationships, Growth, Simple, Society & Culture

4.7 • 11.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

For the first episode in their five-part Household Clutter series, The Minimalists are joined by Joshua Becker to talk about decluttering the things that make a mess of our living spaces.

Discussed in this episode:

Where is the best place to start decluttering? (4:44)

How is our cluttered home harming our family? (8:49)

What purpose does your living room serve, and what gets in the way of that purpose? (28:08)

Listener tip: Minimalist rule to declutter excess coffee mugs. (43:57)

Letting go after the recent Los Angeles fires. (46:22)

Listen to the full Maximal episode on Patreon: patreon.com/theminimalists

Detailed show notes: minimalists.com/podcast

Recorded at Earthing Studios.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Every little thing that you think that you think that you need.
0:24.8	Every little thing you think that you need.
0:29.4	Every little thing that's just feeding your greed.
0:33.9	Oh, I bet that you'd be fine without it.
0:46.8	You're listening to The Minimalist Podcast with Joshua Fields Milburn and T.K. Coleman, recorded live at Earthing Studios in Sunny, California.
0:55.8	Yes, thank you, Alabama. Hello, everybody. Welcome to the first episode of our new five-part household clutter series. Today we're talking about living room clutter. Joining us in the studio to tackle this topic is Joshua Becker.
1:02.0	Joshua is the founder of the popular blog, becoming minimalist, and he's the best-selling author
1:07.1	of five books, including The Minimalist Home. Coming up on this free public minimal episode,
1:12.3	a caller has a question about the many ways his clutter is harming his life and his family's
1:18.9	life. And then we've got a question about the things that get in the way of enjoying our living
1:24.2	rooms. What is the clutter in our living rooms? We'll talk about that.
1:31.5	Let's follow by our right here, right now segment and a listener tip. You can check out the maximal edition of episode 477. That's the full two-hour episode where we answer three times
1:37.9	as many questions on Patreon. The link is in the description. When you subscribe, you can listen to
1:42.7	our private podcast episodes on
1:44.6	Apple Podcasts or Spotify or your favorite podcast app. Plus, you'll gain access to all of our
1:50.0	archives all the way back to episode zero zero one. That's a full decade of podcast archives.
1:57.0	By the way, big thanks to our patrons. Your support keeps our podcast 100% advertisement free because sing along at home, y'all.
2:05.1	Advertisement suck.
2:06.7	Let's start with our callers.
2:07.5	If you have a question or comment for our show, we'd love to hear from you.
2:10.0	Our phone number is 406 to 197839.
2:13.5	Or you can email a voice recording from your phone to podcast at theminimalists.com.
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