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🗓️ 26 May 2022
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The Minimalists discuss the ideal destinations for inherited items. Listen to full episodes of The Minimalists Private Podcast: patreon.com/theminimalists
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0:00.0 | I am the repository for dead people's things. I have items from my parents and both sets |
0:13.4 | of grandparents that hold such sentimental value to me, but they also clutter my home. |
0:19.3 | I want to let go, but where's the best place to start? Is it with my own stuff or someone |
0:24.5 | else's? Okay. It's funny because we talked about this on the minimal episode. Where do I |
0:30.5 | start with my stuff or someone else's? I mean, it's much easier to throw away other people's |
0:38.1 | things for sure, but she's talking about other people's sentimental items. |
0:42.2 | They're not, but she's also talking about how they're dead people, so they're not other |
0:47.0 | people's things. They're your things. Yeah, right. Here's what I'll tell you. You don't want |
0:51.0 | to start with the difficult things because you don't have any momentum right now and |
0:54.2 | letting go. You went to the little small victories up front, right? And so I did it all wrong. |
1:00.7 | When I first stumbled into simplifying, it wasn't my stuff. It was when my mom passed |
1:04.9 | away. And I was confronted with an entire house full of stuff. We were just moving last |
1:10.4 | weekend and Ella was like, it took the movers three whole hours. And I said, Ella, when |
1:17.3 | I dealt with just my mom's stuff, it took me 12 whole days. And part of that was, and |
1:24.8 | she was, well, why did it take so long? Well, because she had so much stuff. And Ella, |
1:29.0 | all she knows is the life she's had, why would people have so much stuff? And because |
1:35.2 | having so much stuff, having a super abundance and overabundance is excess. Excess is not |
1:40.9 | a default state. Excess is the place in which we suffer. Excess pain, excess cell growth, |
1:48.9 | causes cancer, right? Excess inflammation. These things are all, well, they're harmful |
1:55.9 | to us. But excess stuff causes a lot of pain in our lives as well. And so it's about |
2:02.3 | starting with the simple things. That's why we invented the 30 day minimalism game. |
2:07.4 | It's like, just get rid of one thing on day one. And on second day, two things, you just |
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