505 | Excessful
The Minimalists
Joshua Fields Millburn
4.7 • 11.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
The Minimalists talk about what to do with closets and containers that are overflowing with excess, what's keeping most people from minimizing, when to stop buying new things for your home, and much more.
Discussed in this episode:
What do I do with my two closets and three storage containers filled with excess clothes? (1:47)
What's the last thing you minimized, and what prevented you from letting go sooner? (21:08)
Sucky Ad: Dr. Chris Ryan talks about the normalization of deceit. (37:10)
Listener Tip: "Storage" by Mary Oliver. (45:05)
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 be fine without it. |
| 0:39.1 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:40.4 | Welcome to the minimalist podcast where we discuss what it means to live a meaningful life with less. |
| 0:46.5 | My name is Joshua Fields Milburn and joining me here at Earthing Studios in beautiful West Hollywood, California is my good friend. |
| 0:54.0 | He's back. T.K. Coleman. Hey, hey, hey. Oh's my good friend. He's back. |
| 0:54.7 | T.K. Coleman. |
| 0:56.1 | Hey, hey, hey. |
| 0:57.0 | Oh, man. |
| 0:57.5 | Coming up on this free public minimal episode, |
| 0:59.9 | a caller has a question about what to do with her closets and containers that are overflowing with excess stuff. |
| 1:07.5 | And then we've got a question about what's keeping most people from minimizing. |
| 1:11.9 | That's followed by our right here, right now segment, and a listener tip. As always, you can check |
| 1:16.1 | out the full two-hour maximal edition of this episode where we answer three times of many |
| 1:21.0 | questions on Patreon. The link is in the description. By the way, big thanks to our patrons. |
| 1:26.1 | Your support keeps our podcast 100% |
| 1:28.7 | advertisement free because sing along at home, y'all. Advertisement sucks. Yes, they do. Let's start |
| 1:36.2 | with our callers. If you have a question or comment for our show, we'd love to hear from you. |
| 1:40.1 | 406-219-7-839 or email a voice recording to podcast at theminimalists.com. |
| 1:48.4 | Our first question today is from Tina. |
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