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Minimalism isn't saving you money anymore. Here's why.

Welcome to the frugal friends podcast where you'll learn to save money embrace simplicity and live a rich life here are your host jenn and jill i'm a 32 yearold man who lives in a studio apartment.

In any other era, I'd be considered a loser, all right?

But now I'm called a minimalist.

How much better is that?

Hey, frugal friends.

I'm Jen.

I'm Jill.

And minimalism in the Year of Our Lord, 2026, is not what it used to be.

I don't know, a millennial alive, though, who has not partaken in at least a declutter, if not full on wanting to be minimalist. And here's the thing. I love the idea of minimalism. I think

that it's so complementary to frugality. And you and I both consider ourselves to be minimalist,

but we do want to talk about how in many ways it has been taken to an extreme.

It has been monetized and is now potentially doing more harm and good.

Yeah.

And so today we are talking about the extra baggage that comes with minimalism.

And we're hearing from people on the internet, both real people who have tried minimalism

and influencers who have kind of fallen out of love with it. So when we say extra baggage,

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