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Sometimes less is more and we have gone on a journey from extreme minimalism to a more conservative minimalistic approach to life.

In today's episode we share our minimalism journey and how it has changed our lives for the better.

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Transcription:

So sometimes less is more and an ally. We've gone through a big journey towards extreme minimalism when we lived in the van and then we've come back out of minimalism but still have minimalistic aspects to our life. So today we wanted to talk a bit on minimalism, how it's changed our life and how we think it could improve your life as well.

She probably thought, why minimalism? Okay. Like why we even like where did we even hear about minimalism avenue the night?

Well we started learning about minimalism when we started looking into tiny houses and then started looking into moving into the van and minimalism. So if you haven't heard of tiny houses before, they're, these houses that people build on trailer bases basically about what? Two and a half meters wide by seven or eight meters long. And so they build these, they look like matchbox, how's it? It's like they're really cool and I got super except assess with them and watching them on youtube. And a lot of people who are in these tiny houses talk about minimalism because they need to cut down the amount of stuff that they have in order to live in these tiny spaces and how by cutting down their stuff, they're actually feel happier and more free and we were feeling pretty trapped at the time and I was in. It was Kinda like, oh this is, this is actually an exciting idea that by having less you can be happier.

Yeah. And I think as well our life is just full of junk. Like we just always felt like the house was so messy and allies would just messy and disorganized. We would always have to spend all of our free time organizing our junk. So we got to the point where we were like, well, we just don't have any junk. Then we can spend all of that time that you would be organizing your junk. Doing something fun.

Yeah. And because kids, kids are gross rubbish for the kids. Just like they keep everything. Our son, grandson, he's six. He is a hoarder. He is such a hoarder that when you take a toy that is broken and you throw it in the Bin and then you put something on top of it so the kids don't know that you're telling me. Somehow he finds it, gets it out of the being and keeps it. So yeah, the kids have a lot of stuff, but we also had a lot of stuff, a lot. I had so many clothes that I never would wear basically. Like how many beds, shirts do you read? Okay. So let's talk about the process that we went to start downsizing and minimalizing our lives.

Okay. Well I think we just started with it was what is it? Every wardrobe or it was something like if you haven't touched or used that thing in the last six months, you throw it in the bin unless it had like serious sentimental value like baby or like photographs

or something like that. Yeah. So there was a lot of stuff that was just in tubs. We just had all these tabs that would just be eating in our garage. Like every time I moved houses like 15 heavy tubs of all this like crap who's kept lugging it around with us and so I think our approach to becoming minimalist because we knew that we were moving into the van. It was very focused on what's going to fit in the van and how do we need to change our life for the van. But it was also. We were maybe six months out from moving into the band when we started looking into this seriously and it was very much one step at a time. For us. It wasn't, okay, let's like become complete minimalist center and they have one chair straight away. Everybody else did on the floor.

It was like,