Minimalists: Living with Less
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2014
- We all think about how to make our lives more meaningful; meet some people who have decided that less is more.
Produced by Andy Park.
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'Love people, use things, cause the opposite never works'...wow😍brilliant!
For years I've been telling my wife's family 'I don't want anything for Christmas'! A gift for me and the following day it's a gift to my local charity shop!
My wife and I work at being minimalists...mostly so we can travel and EXPERIENCE life, rather than accumulating stuff that brings only temporary happiness - if even that. I grew up in a quasi-Mennonite home and we are part of a Mennonite church. Mennonites (and other Anabaptists) have emphasized minimalism (or "simple living" as we prefer to call it) for centuries. It's become increasingly more difficult as society has become more affluent. Some of our friends and neighbors think we are weird because we only own one 21-inch TV and only use it to watch Netflix or RUclips! They know that we make enough money to live in a brand new McMansion, but instead choose to live in a 70-year old, 1,200 sq ft bungalow. We drive one old car with 200,000 miles and one relatively new Prius, that is the most basic model available. We tend to purchase artwork from local artists to decorate our home or artwork that we create ourselves. We are far from perfect and have to continually work at it. I'm so glad that we can focus on our relationship and that we can experience traveling the world together rather than being a slave to debt and a mortgage payment, though. I encourage all people to give it a shot!
Great video. We also experienced trauma before starting our journey to eliminate excess from our lives..it was a house fire that destroyed our house and more than half of our stuff. Faced with something like that you either have to hang on and be upset and wish you could get it all back, or let it go, and see you really didnt need it n the first place.The concept of our possessions owning us really true, and i think its the reason our fire was more freeing than devastating.
I would like to down size our home - convincing my husband is a bit harder. We don't need to live in the middle of nowhere. It is a lovely lifestyle but as we get older and I pare down our possessions (so the kids don't have to when we fall off our perch) we could easily live in a smaller space.
Your d/Deaf/HOH viewers would appreciate closed captioning on this video so that we can understand what y'all are saying. :)
Beautiful!
Great video!
The other day I went through my memory box, I was reminded of so much beauty, that had been smudged by the hands of time. I resolved to never discard of such things. It was rejuvenating, a spiritual experience, as I remembered myself full spectrum
I see no reason to get rid of stuff via minimalism. I don't have depression, anxiety nor hoarding tendencies- never have. I love what I own and possess, in terms of the physical and mental.
I only have one life. I want it to be colorful vibrant and teeming with the things I adore. I don't cut people off, I don't silence ideas that leave me seething- I don't toss away my finest of memories
I embrace everything I want to embrace, and allow it to enrich me. My philosophy is very different.
Great Video!
I enjoyed this video! :)
That's Perfecy. What's up, irate easy What do you think... 11
Looks like a regular house to me, albeit quite clean...Just another upper middle class woman making a voluntary decision that she doesn't need heaps of useless clutter (she still has a lot of nice things) and saying she went through some spiritual-like transition to live like any student/lower income earner..
That lady from the first family should minimalize her bangs.
Definitely not minimalist. I just read a comment from a gentleman who said him and his wife are Mennonite and live in and old house, drive a high mileage car but they travel the world and focus on their relationship. That is being minimalist...
The first thing I noticed when they walked into the living room of her home was the deer heads on the wall. Sounds materialistic to me to decorate your wall with that (I doubt she is a hobby hunter).
This minimalist idea hasn't really been thought through, are they trying to declutter or spend less? I noticed this family all had very modern decor, so she is failing on the spend less part. She also had a vase of flowers (which looked store bought) on her dining table so she is failing on the spending and cluttering there.
If it's about having less possessions, then what about non-physical items like digital content? One guy said his laptop was his most precious item. If he has thousands of movies on it, then that's a lot of "things", if it were the 90s then that would also be a lot of physical space. Also if the movement is about spending more physical time with people, then a laptop doesn't fit with that idea, a phone might.
I did away with wasting money on consumables a decade ago, I had a rule, that if it didn't fit in my car (it was a small car) then I couldn't buy/have it. I rented furnished places and it made moving between places as simple as can be.
However, I do buy a fair number of shoes, because I like the feeling I get when I buy them and when I wear them. It's that experience that I want to purchase, in the same way you get enjoyment from watching a film or going on a holiday. I am purchasing a feeling, or perhaps you could say a designers artwork. However, I buy at factory outlets, so I buy shoes for $20 a pair rather than $120. Since I don't think they are "worth" more than $20 and also because I know that if I wait a month they will be marked down to $20.
Too plain. Anyway how much to they spend constantly going through their stuff and agonising over decisions compared to how much time they have saved through getting rid of objects?
The other day I went through my memory box, I was reminded of so much beauty, that had been smudged by the hands of time. I resolved to never discard of such things. It was rejuvenating, a spiritual experience, as I remembered myself full spectrum
I see no reason to get rid of stuff via minimalism. I don't have depression, anxiety nor hoarding tendencies- never have. I love what I own and possess, in terms of the physical and mental.
I only have one life. I want it to be colorful vibrant and teeming with the things I adore. I don't cut people off, I don't silence ideas that leave me seething- I don't toss away my finest of memories
I embrace everything I want to embrace, and allow it to enrich me. My philosophy is very different.