Im 15 and i learned about minimalism through Matt D'avella i then watched your documentary and said to my self: im in! (Also i bought your book) So then i got rid of stuff told my parents and grandparents about this who always thought minimalism is living with only a few things not things that give yourself joy... I believe that Minimalism is a really good thing for Teenagers it helps to get more self confidence and live a more meaningful life... Greetings from Germany, Paul Ps. I will keep on telling more people about minimalism and how it improves their life until everyone is a minimalist 😁😂.
As a teenager, I think I've benefitted from learning about minimalism early on. It's a time where we're looking to find out who we are, and realising that that's not gonna come from things or money is the first step.
I can tell you exactly what got me started on this two years ago. I asked my then 16-year old son why he was always visiting friends' homes instead of bringing them over to our house. He said, "Because, mom... our house is embarrassing." If you don't think clutter and stuff affect our children, let me be the first one to tell you: it does. Since becoming a minimalist, the relationships I have with both of my children have grown. If I had known what I was doing to my kids and how easy (difficult at first!) it was to change, I would have done it a lot sooner.
I was unknowingly a minimalist when I was in school and college. I owned less stuff and didn’t feel the need to own more. However, when I got married I just started buying more( clothes,food,decor and lots and lots of stuff) . I never knew I owned more because I never realised I owned less at one time. After almost 15 years of marriage, I struggled with maintaining my home and stuff. I often didn’t feel like returning home from a vacation because I was horribly overwhelmed by the stuff in my home. I quickly realised that I never felt like this prior to my marriage. I promptly self analysed my situation and jumped on the Marie Kondo wagon to organise my stuff. Over a year later this journey led me to you guys. It was a very slow but sure change. Your ideas struck a chord. I realised I was a minimalist until my marriage. After my marriage my buying power had increased. But, having money should never equate to spending money on stuff that owns you. I thank you guys from the bottom of my heart for leading me back to minimalism. 🙏🏼 Wishing you guys the best that life has to offer.
I remember watching your documentary in 2016 I think? I was 26. And thought it was SO stupid. A couple years later I watched it again and it gave me a complete 180 and I don't know why. Since then, I've been diving deeper into it, wiggling in and out, all that jazz, but I think I learned about Minimalism at the right time.
Are you referring to school uniforms? But uniform dressing what is referred here is : maybe your style is jeans, shirts and T shirts plus boots and trainers. Then that is your form of uniform dressing. It can be any style like skirts and blouses or... it is personal.
I am 59 and I wish I knew about minimalism when I was a teenager as well. The pressure of a teenager can be very difficult and depressing. So many things that you have to keep up with to fit in just to have friends when actually you only need 1to 2 really good friends.
Everyone chooses their own path in life!! Along our path we are exposed to different information. At the beginning of our path, we can make choices without enough information. Advertising always pushes us to want more and not less.
You hit the nail on the head: Minimalism is a great equalizer. You focus less on comparing yourself to others and more on what your life (and the things you choose to own) says about your values. You guys are awesome. 👍🏼
I've never liked to have to much stuff because my mother and grandmother were both Hoarders. In 2017 I sold my house that I hated and got rid of everything in it. It was like a weight lifted off of me. I'm 62 years old now and living the minimalist lifestyle and loving it.
21 years old read all the books last year and just graduated college and started working full-time post graduate life and using minimalism to the best of my ability and have never been better! Thank you!
I became a minimalists when I was 26 and got really into it at 27, during my first year of motherhood. Oh and yes, your documentary on Netflix was the spark that got me going on this journey :)
I really wish that my mother would think this way. She telling me every time: I wont part from my stuff! When i'm death you can throw away what you want. Thanks mum: full stocked house and 3 attick room stuff - nothing really valuable just old stuff.
I've noticed a longstanding trend to center minimalism in hobby and open-source software projects as a defining principle, and I think the overall effect is similar to minimalism throughout life - reduction helps clarify. But what I also have recognized is that it's like boiling water: if you don't have another principle in there holding up the focus and getting cooked in the minimalist bath, you end up with an empty pot. And I think that's also true of a young person looking towards minimalism for answers. "Minimal AND something else" is much more powerful than minimal alone. But finding the something else is the hard part because it's so likely that you have a whole variety of things you still want to try, and your lifestyle will need room to experiment and see how far something could be pursued before it needs to get boiled down.
Do you think someone needs to first go through a period of "maximalism" in order to really connect with minimalism? As you said, it could be seeing how your parents and loved ones have been impacted by over consumption, but I think it is important to understand the other side in order to connect with the why of minimalism.
I have 2 beautiful girls 14 and 16 they have in their bedrooms only a bed, desk, and a chair . I’m teaching to make good decisions with money before Covid they hated to go mall now guess. I still buy some stuff for them to really think about and write down. Thank you guys 😘😘
Minimalism = Humanity + Simplicity. No matter what age or socioeconomic status, it is the lovely simplification of ones possessions to make life better and more satisfying. I am really pleased to hear that younger people are getting into minimalism. If they learn about it now it will save them much distress in their future.
Recent subscriber! Great video! I'm a college student and I'm glad you both shared such great insights on minimalism! I like your point that minimalism can be for anyone who is willing, that it doesn't matter your age! I recommend checking another channel that shares tips on minimalism and more, SugarMamma TV! I think you both may like her advice too! I'm looking forward to future uploads!
As a kid to 20 years old I was very minimal. I used and enjoyed everything I had. Due to limited funds it wasn't a lot. I then felt like I lost all of that simplicity when I got married and was decorating the home and didn't want my babies to only have a drawer with stuff and a couple of toys and outfits- i wanted them to have basically the store at home. I've been on this journey for 2 years this November and it's that simplicity again. I detested the average or trendy in Jr High to now (40 years old), that may be why I feel like this has been a very easy/natural process.
I would like to add that I realize Marie Kondo was popular in that time frame but I never heard of her until about 2 months into it and then hated that it was a trend lol. I kept going though and applied you guys or my own rules to it.
I wish I had known this sooner in life. I now I can’t imagine a non minimalist lifestyle. I’ve been on my journey for over two years and even created my channel to share my knowledge with others
I always feel like I'd concentrate and listen more to the person instead of looking at what they're wearing if they're wearing black or a uniform. The clothes don't "drown out" the person in front of you. It takes away at least 5 minutes of looking the person upside down and that internal dialogue "Oh they're wearing such and such etc."
I barely made ends meet as a younger me. So, I taught myself to make a dollar stretch to next week. Wish I could do that now. A dollar can't even buy a box of toothpicks. Although, I m a simpleton and loving it.
Forty-seven-year-old here and into minimalism now. My hubby isn't, but that's fine, marriage is give and take as they say, LOL but yeah I wish I'd found minimalism when I was a teenager or at least in college, it would have made life a lot easier moving in and out every year during college anyway LOL
I too became a minimalist in my later years, and I can relate to the moving issue and having "stuff" to take care of. Life is so much simpler and easier to manage when you have minimal items. Good for you !!
@@lifesso Beats me! I watched a documentary on B & J's last week and the vision, values and creative genius they built their brand on was impressive, to say the least.👍
Help me to understand something, I watch those television shows where they help hoarders to declutter their homes, and I think to myself how can people reach that point, but at the other end of the spectrum you what people to have next to nothing, their has to be a medium.
And what does enough mean, because some people are happy having things around them that bring them joy, even though they serve no purpose, for instance I enjoy seashells, all they do is sit there and look pretty, yet I wouldn’t part with them because they do nothing more than to just sit there and look pretty. I think you need to say something more in the lines of be true to you, and do what makes you happy, not haul all your stuff away to please someone else, because you can’t expect people to be happy in a sterile looking environment.
I wished that i had been a minimilist from the start, now i am a compleat minimilist, but can't help thinking back to when i was not particularly, the money i could have saved, instead of wasting it, after all ,its a precious comoditie now, an possesions after all are just unaminated objects, i realize the importance of giving to others much more than owning stuff, i just dont see this obssesion of having things or the latest i mean why??
Im 15 and i learned about minimalism through Matt D'avella i then watched your documentary and said to my self: im in! (Also i bought your book) So then i got rid of stuff told my parents and grandparents about this who always thought minimalism is living with only a few things not things that give yourself joy...
I believe that Minimalism is a really good thing for Teenagers it helps to get more self confidence and live a more meaningful life...
Greetings from Germany, Paul
Ps. I will keep on telling more people about minimalism and how it improves their life until everyone is a minimalist 😁😂.
As a teenager, I think I've benefitted from learning about minimalism early on. It's a time where we're looking to find out who we are, and realising that that's not gonna come from things or money is the first step.
Great! 😊
That is very good. You will inspire other younger people to learn about minimalism and how it helps one in life.
You are already so far ahead. Good for you.
Yeah I agree I'm also teenager
Yep! Well said.
I can tell you exactly what got me started on this two years ago. I asked my then 16-year old son why he was always visiting friends' homes instead of bringing them over to our house. He said, "Because, mom... our house is embarrassing." If you don't think clutter and stuff affect our children, let me be the first one to tell you: it does. Since becoming a minimalist, the relationships I have with both of my children have grown. If I had known what I was doing to my kids and how easy (difficult at first!) it was to change, I would have done it a lot sooner.
Awesome that you asked and then changed!
I was unknowingly a minimalist when I was in school and college. I owned less stuff and didn’t feel the need to own more. However, when I got married I just started buying more( clothes,food,decor and lots and lots of stuff) . I never knew I owned more because I never realised I owned less at one time. After almost 15 years of marriage, I struggled with maintaining my home and stuff. I often didn’t feel like returning home from a vacation because I was horribly overwhelmed by the stuff in my home. I quickly realised that I never felt like this prior to my marriage. I promptly self analysed my situation and jumped on the Marie Kondo wagon to organise my stuff. Over a year later this journey led me to you guys. It was a very slow but sure change. Your ideas struck a chord. I realised I was a minimalist until my marriage. After my marriage my buying power had increased. But, having money should never equate to spending money on stuff that owns you. I thank you guys from the bottom of my heart for leading me back to minimalism. 🙏🏼 Wishing you guys the best that life has to offer.
I remember watching your documentary in 2016 I think? I was 26. And thought it was SO stupid. A couple years later I watched it again and it gave me a complete 180 and I don't know why. Since then, I've been diving deeper into it, wiggling in and out, all that jazz, but I think I learned about Minimalism at the right time.
I wish I knew about minimalism when I was a little...I would've enjoyed wearing uniforms more.
I know
Are you referring to school
uniforms? But uniform dressing
what is referred here is : maybe
your style is jeans, shirts and T
shirts plus boots and trainers.
Then that is your form of uniform
dressing. It can be any style like
skirts and blouses or... it is
personal.
I loved my uniform lol I felt super sexy in it haha sorry if that’s an awkward thing to say . I was 18 in my last year of high school :)
@@111-w9d7y Exactly!!
I'm 21 and am now a more successful minimalist than I was as a teen. I think minimalism is great at any age
I'm 26 and started the journey two years ago. I think it was the best decision I had taken so far.
I am 59 and I wish I knew about minimalism when I was a teenager as well. The pressure of a teenager can be very difficult and depressing. So many things that you have to keep up with to fit in just to have friends when actually you only need 1to 2 really good friends.
Everyone chooses their own path in life!!
Along our path we are exposed to different information.
At the beginning of our path, we can make choices without enough information.
Advertising always pushes us to want more and not less.
You hit the nail on the head: Minimalism is a great equalizer. You focus less on comparing yourself to others and more on what your life (and the things you choose to own) says about your values. You guys are awesome. 👍🏼
Absolutely!
I am nearly 63! And connecting!
I've never liked to have to much stuff because my mother and grandmother were both Hoarders. In 2017 I sold my house that I hated and got rid of everything in it. It was like a weight lifted off of me. I'm 62 years old now and living the minimalist lifestyle and loving it.
21 years old read all the books last year and just graduated college and started working full-time post graduate life and using minimalism to the best of my ability and have never been better! Thank you!
Great job!
I became a minimalists when I was 26 and got really into it at 27, during my first year of motherhood. Oh and yes, your documentary on Netflix was the spark that got me going on this journey :)
Thanks for sharing!!
It's a good thing to do when your older, to simplify. Save your kids from going through all your stuff.
Yep! Swedish Death Cleaning! 😁
I really wish that my mother would think this way. She telling me every time: I wont part from my stuff! When i'm death you can throw away what you want. Thanks mum: full stocked house and 3 attick room stuff - nothing really valuable just old stuff.
I found out minimalism with 19 and it totally changed my life! So much easier being in university now!
I've lived in Kentucky my whole life, thank you Joshua for pronouncing Louisville correctly!!! Props to you my friend!!!
I've noticed a longstanding trend to center minimalism in hobby and open-source software projects as a defining principle, and I think the overall effect is similar to minimalism throughout life - reduction helps clarify.
But what I also have recognized is that it's like boiling water: if you don't have another principle in there holding up the focus and getting cooked in the minimalist bath, you end up with an empty pot. And I think that's also true of a young person looking towards minimalism for answers. "Minimal AND something else" is much more powerful than minimal alone. But finding the something else is the hard part because it's so likely that you have a whole variety of things you still want to try, and your lifestyle will need room to experiment and see how far something could be pursued before it needs to get boiled down.
Do you think someone needs to first go through a period of "maximalism" in order to really connect with minimalism? As you said, it could be seeing how your parents and loved ones have been impacted by over consumption, but I think it is important to understand the other side in order to connect with the why of minimalism.
@TylerLoyd I never made that connection but overconsumption most certainly led me to minimalism
I have 2 beautiful girls 14 and 16 they have in their bedrooms only a bed, desk, and a chair . I’m teaching to make good decisions with money before Covid they hated to go mall now guess. I still buy some stuff for them to really think about and write down. Thank you guys 😘😘
Minimalism = Humanity + Simplicity. No matter what age or socioeconomic status, it is the lovely simplification of ones possessions to make life better and more satisfying. I am really pleased to hear that younger people are getting into minimalism. If they learn about it now it will save them much distress in their future.
Recent subscriber! Great video! I'm a college student and I'm glad you both shared such great insights on minimalism! I like your point that minimalism can be for anyone who is willing, that it doesn't matter your age! I recommend checking another channel that shares tips on minimalism and more, SugarMamma TV! I think you both may like her advice too! I'm looking forward to future uploads!
As a kid to 20 years old I was very minimal. I used and enjoyed everything I had. Due to limited funds it wasn't a lot. I then felt like I lost all of that simplicity when I got married and was decorating the home and didn't want my babies to only have a drawer with stuff and a couple of toys and outfits- i wanted them to have basically the store at home. I've been on this journey for 2 years this November and it's that simplicity again. I detested the average or trendy in Jr High to now (40 years old), that may be why I feel like this has been a very easy/natural process.
I would like to add that I realize Marie Kondo was popular in that time frame but I never heard of her until about 2 months into it and then hated that it was a trend lol. I kept going though and applied you guys or my own rules to it.
@@millerville2000 yes, Marie kondo isn't minimalism 😅
I knew about minimalism when I was 21, back in 2014, while I was still in college, after I watched these two guys on TedxTalks.
minimalism has been helping me get clutter free and rich. its a process for me
I’m 19 and I’m trying to be minimalist. I wish I knew sooner about minimalism. I would have saved so much money, time and stress...
I find it interesting and like the idea but I do truly enjoy collecting things.
I wish I had known this sooner in life. I now I can’t imagine a non minimalist lifestyle. I’ve been on my journey for over two years and even created my channel to share my knowledge with others
Nice! 👍
I will check out your channel too. Thanks.
@@renupunjabi9482 thanks!
@@lorraineturton4485 thank you!
I always feel like I'd concentrate and listen more to the person instead of looking at what they're wearing if they're wearing black or a uniform. The clothes don't "drown out" the person in front of you. It takes away at least 5 minutes of looking the person upside down and that internal dialogue "Oh they're wearing such and such etc."
So Josh once looked like a
preacher - heaven forbid.
That goodness you both have
formed The Minimalists, from
which many people have benefitted.
I barely made ends meet as a younger me. So, I taught myself to make a dollar stretch to next week. Wish I could do that now. A dollar can't even buy a box of toothpicks. Although, I m a simpleton and loving it.
Forty-seven-year-old here and into minimalism now. My hubby isn't, but that's fine, marriage is give and take as they say, LOL but yeah I wish I'd found minimalism when I was a teenager or at least in college, it would have made life a lot easier moving in and out every year during college anyway LOL
I too became a minimalist in my later years, and I can relate to the moving issue and having "stuff" to take care of. Life is so much simpler and easier to manage when you have minimal items. Good for you !!
In our crazy world never has minimalism made more sense.
I do NOT miss highschool at all! scary years XD I prefer the age and life I have now
These two are to minimalism what Ben & Jerry are to ice cream.🍦😉:)
so who is the haagen dasz?
@@lifesso Beats me! I watched a documentary on B & J's last week and the vision, values and creative genius they built their brand on was impressive, to say the least.👍
Help me to understand something, I watch those television shows where they help hoarders to declutter their homes, and I think to myself how can people reach that point, but at the other end of the spectrum you what people to have next to nothing, their has to be a medium.
Minimalism is the medium-it means enough.
And what does enough mean, because some people are happy having things around them that bring them joy, even though they serve no purpose, for instance I enjoy seashells, all they do is sit there and look pretty, yet I wouldn’t part with them because they do nothing more than to just sit there and look pretty. I think you need to say something more in the lines of be true to you, and do what makes you happy, not haul all your stuff away to please someone else, because you can’t expect people to be happy in a sterile looking environment.
I had Jenko jeans
Hey, I thought you guys were 39? Also, my birthday is in October too and I’m 39.
I was introduce to living a simple life by Dominique Loreau. L'ART DE L'ESSENTIEL...
Minimalism and Veganism MUST be taught in schools 🙆
👌🏾
🛋️
Or do u think if you came across minimalism as a teenager you would have disregarded it?
I wished that i had been a minimilist from the start, now i am a compleat minimilist, but can't help thinking back to when i was not particularly, the money i could have saved, instead of wasting it, after all ,its a precious comoditie now, an possesions after all are just unaminated objects, i realize the importance of giving to others much more than owning stuff, i just dont see this obssesion of having things or the latest i mean why??
13 yo minimalist
👍👍👍👍👍💥💥💥
Didn't know he grew up Jehovahs Witness
lol jncos