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The Minimalists

523 | Time to Let Go

The Minimalists

Joshua Fields Millburn

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Leisure, Home & Garden

4.711.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The Minimalists talk about why you have trouble getting the clutter out of the house after you've organized, how to know when it's time to let go, the Wouldn't Replace It Rule, how to deal with all that boomer junk you've inherited, and more.

Discussed in this episode:

Why do I have trouble letting go of the things I've already decluttered? (3:08)

How do you know when it's time to let go of a thing? (14:03)

Right Here, Right Now: The Simplify Everything decluttering course. (36:40)

Listener Tip: When you let go of the need for certainty, you often pick up some peace of mind. (46:07)

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Detailed show notes: minimalists.com/podcast

Transcript

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0:00.0

Every little thing that you think that you think that you need.

0:24.7

Every little thing you think that you need.

0:29.5

Every little thing that's just feeding your greed.

0:33.9

Oh, I bet that you'd be fine without it.

0:44.7

Yes, welcome to the minimalist podcast where we discuss what it means to live a meaningful life with the less.

0:52.5

My name is Joshua Fields, Milburn, joining me here at our studio in beautiful West Hollywood, California, is my good friend T.K. Coleman.

0:53.6

Yes, sir.

0:58.2

And guess what? Oh, we have the mayor of Oakwood himself here today.

1:04.5

I'm back, baby. Yes. Ryan Nicodemus is here. Yeah. It's good to be back. Good to see y'all.

1:09.4

His wife's here. We have an audience of one. Of course, Savvy D. is here. Professor Sean is here as well.

1:11.6

Ryan, we just did an event with you here in Southern California. We wrapped up our Sunday symposiums for a while. We're taking a bit of a break and you've been in town. You picked the worst week to be in town. Oh, my gosh. This has been raining the whole time. I was telling my friends, like how that's how it was when you and I would come to L.A. before we lived here, every time we showed up, it rained. The first 12 times

1:29.5

we were in Los Angeles

1:30.4

at rain.

1:30.9

Yeah.

1:31.5

Yeah. Yeah. So, you know, I'm just repeating, you know, history. Bringing the rain to California. Sorry, Californians. You've been in Montana for a couple years now, and we're in a new year at this point. You got some exciting news coming

1:44.9

down the pike. We won't spoil it yet, but we'll be announcing it, I guess, in the next few

1:51.1

months, hopefully. Yeah, yeah, definitely, man. It's, yeah, I'm excited to announce it. Me too. So we'll

1:56.4

be talking about that. But today, we got a lot to talk about. We're talking about why you have

2:00.9

trouble getting the clutter out of the house after you've organized. I'm not talking about you specifically, Ryan. Right. Yeah, yeah. Although you did have trouble when we first did that. That's true. Letting go right away was super difficult. Also, we're going to talk about how you know when It's time to let go.

2:16.5

We're to talk about the wouldn't replace it rule, which is sort of like this, I don't know, you know when it's time to let go. We're to talk about the wouldn't replace it

2:18.6

rule, which is sort of like this, I don't know, a younger sibling to the spontaneous combustion

2:25.3

rule. So we'll talk about that a bit as well, and much, much more. Plus, coming up on page three,

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