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The Minimalists

Joshua Fields Millburn

Finances, Home & Garden, Leisure, Mental Health, Minimalism, Contribution, Passion, Minimalists, Health & Fitness, Decluttering, Philosophy, Health, Relationships, Growth, Simple, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 27 November 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Joshua and Ryan discuss whether it makes sense to replace cheap items with more expensive, more durable items. Listen to the full episode on Patreon: patreon.com/theminimalists

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0:00.0	I just focus on that words.
0:02.0	Ha!
0:03.0	A brand new month is approaching and that means it's the perfect time to let go.
0:09.4	You can play the 30-day minimalism game and also download our free printable 30-day
0:14.6	minimalism game calendar over at TheMinimalists.com slash game.
0:20.1	Enjoy!
0:21.1	I struggle with wanting to learn about high quality items I can buy and I'm not going
0:29.9	in order to replace the cheaper things I own, the notion of additional consumption in
0:35.4	order to ultimately own and consume less.
0:38.8	So Diana is basically having a problem with wanting to replace her low quality items
0:46.1	with higher quality items and it's interesting because during the pandemic I see people getting
0:52.8	bored.
0:54.1	So then they start to make excuses to shop online and maybe even to shop in person.
0:59.5	Because retestors are starting to open back up.
1:02.6	Although some of them will never open back up.
1:04.6	I struggle with this too but as one of the minimalists I'm perfect so I don't struggle
1:09.7	with that anymore.
1:10.7	No man, the thing that stands out the most to me is my stinkin and even talking about
1:16.4	it makes me feel like I just need to do it but I'm not going to do it.
1:20.1	My scale and my kettle.
1:22.9	So for my coffee scale and the kettle I used to heat the water.
1:27.3	I bought them both from Bluebottle.
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