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The Minimalists

504 | The Little Things

The Minimalists

Joshua Fields Millburn

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Leisure, Home & Garden

4.711.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In this solo episode, Joshua talks about disagreeing about the little things at home, his new rule for online shopping, a few stupid things he's purchased that he'll never buy again, and much more.

Discussed in this episode:

Why do my minimalist spouse and I keep arguing about the little things? (2:17)

Talkaboutable: The Amazon Shopping Rule. (19:11)

Talkaboutable: Three stupid things I've purchased that I'll never buy again. (22:00)

Right Here, Right Now: A return to video, a new perk for Patrons, and Minimalism turns two. (24:47)

Listener Tip: Surprising things that dirty your clothes. (30:32)

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.

0:23.6

Every little thing you think that you need.

0:28.6

Every little thing that's just feeding your greed,

0:33.6

oh I bet that you you be fine without it.

0:40.6

Hello, everybody.

0:42.5

Welcome to The Minimalist Podcast,

0:46.6

where we discuss what it means to live a meaningful life with less.

0:48.3

My name is Joshua Fields, Milburn, and we're recording this episode here at Earthing Studios

0:51.0

in beautiful West Hollywood, California.

0:53.8

My co-host, T.K. Coleman, is in Chicago this week. He'll be back next week. I was supposed to have a different co-host here today. No, not Nicodemus. He's still in Montana. Dr. John Deloney was going to join me today, but I got a phone call from him last week, or last night, rather. And he had an emergency. He actually ended up in the emergency room, not for him,

1:12.6

but a loved one ended up in the emergency room.

1:14.6

So he couldn't make his flight and make it out here to Southern California.

1:18.2

We'll bring him on the podcast to answer your questions on a future episode.

1:22.5

But today, you get a solo JFM show.

1:25.3

Coming up on this free public minimal episode, a caller has a question about

1:29.2

arguing with her husband over the little things. And then I'm going to talk about my new rule for

1:35.7

online shopping, plus a few stupid things I've purchased over the years that I'll never buy again.

1:43.2

As always, you can listen to the full two-hour

1:45.9

maximal edition of this episode where we answer three times as many questions on Patreon. The link

1:51.7

is in the description. By the way, big thanks to our patrons. Your support keeps our podcast 100%

1:57.5

advertisement free because sing-along at home, y'all.

2:02.1

Advertisement suck.

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