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The Minimalists

Help Me Convince My Spouse to Minimize!

The Minimalists

Joshua Fields Millburn

Home & Garden, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Leisure

4.711.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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0:00.0

Do you have any advice for getting my husband to minimize?

0:10.8

He keeps taking things from the goodwill box and putting them back into the storage closet.

0:16.4

Help.

0:17.4

Yeah.

0:18.4

Well, here's the thing.

0:19.4

You're actually stealing from him.

0:20.6

So be careful here.

0:22.3

To give away someone else's thing is theft.

0:27.6

I would never, ever do that.

0:29.0

Not even with my daughter, right?

0:30.5

And so while why wouldn't I do that?

0:34.5

Why isn't he simplifying?

0:36.5

And why are you simplifying?

0:38.9

He's not simplifying because he knows the what and he sees pain around the what.

0:42.0

I don't want to get rid of those things.

0:43.4

Those things represent something to me.

0:45.3

I get some sort of perceived value from it.

0:48.3

That's the only reason he's clinging to it.

0:50.2

Is he thinks there's more value in holding on to it than letting go of it.

0:54.0

But you think there's more value in letting go of it than there is.

0:57.6

Well, clinging to it.

1:01.2

So yes, you're not on the same page right now.

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