516 | Hoarder Moms
The Minimalists
Joshua Fields Millburn
4.7 • 11.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
The Minimalists talk about celebrating the holidays without consumerism, our craziest Black Friday stories, the willingness to walk away from anything, six often-overlooked spaces in your home to declutter right now, and much more.
Discussed in this episode:
Why are T.K. and Joshua opening fortune cookies on the podcast? (0:30)
How can I deal with my hoarder mom's cluttered house? (10:18)
Who's the biggest hoarder in your family? (24:39)
Right Here, Right Now: the 30-Day Minimalism Game, Sunday Symposium, and Zoom calls with The Minimalists (40:36)
Listener Tip: Getting into the school spirit. (43:45)
Have a question for the show? Call 406-219-7839 or email a voice memo to podcast@themins.com.
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 be fine without it. |
| 0:39.3 | Yes, hello, simpletons. |
| 0:41.7 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:42.7 | Welcome to the minimalist podcast where we discuss what it means to live a meaningful life with less. |
| 0:48.3 | My name is Joshua Fields, Milburn, and joining me here at Earth Eden Studios and beautiful West Hollywood, California. The rain has |
| 0:55.4 | slowed down. The clouds are parting. The sun is peeking through. My good friend T.K. Coleman |
| 1:02.8 | is here. It's the season of holiday cheer. Ah, yes. That's a brand new month. But look what I have |
| 1:08.2 | here in front of me. No, that is not page three. |
| 1:12.5 | If y'all are just listening to the audio version of the podcast, we're on page one right now. |
| 1:16.8 | And Savvy Dee just handed me these fortune cookies. |
| 1:20.2 | And, TK., I've got to be honest, I'm a little scared because we don't have any safety net here. |
| 1:26.9 | We're doing these for our last Sunday symposium of the year, |
| 1:31.7 | and we've got these fortune cookies. Everyone gets one in the audience. I always wanted to be a |
| 1:35.5 | fortune cookie writer. Is that right? My ultimate aspiration, like, yeah, the Dow Day Ching is pithy, |
| 1:41.6 | but what's pithier than the Tao Deciing? |
| 1:55.5 | Delicious fortune cookies. Actually, they're probably not that delicious. I'm not going to eat the cookie, but I thought this was a great way to unwrap TK's profundity. So we're going to open these together. |
| 2:03.0 | And then you're going to tell me what minimal maxim is on your cookie. And then we can talk about it a bit before we dive into this full episode here. |
| 2:05.0 | So gentlemen first. |
| 2:11.0 | Yeah, after I'm done with this process, I'm going to write an essay called a supposedly fun thing that I'll never do again. |
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