On Living with Less Stuff
Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus - aka The Minimalists - are a pair of best friends who grew up poor in Dayton, Ohio. They were working in unfulfilling six-figure corporate careers at age 30 when they shed most of their belongings and started a popular blog about embracing simplicity.
They have since become some of the country's leading evangelists on the virtues of living with less. The friends, now 32, are currently on a 100-city tour to promote Everything That Remains, an earnest self-published memoir written by Millburn with footnotes by Nicodemus that attempts to recount their change of course and serves as a primer for those curious about what it means to be a modern minimalist.
Here they share an adapted excerpt from the book in which Millburn reminisces about how his lifestyle transformation began at home, by figuring out what to do with all of his stuff ...
Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus - aka The Minimalists - are a pair of best friends who grew up poor in Dayton, Ohio. They were working in unfulfilling six-figure corporate careers at age 30 when they shed most of their belongings and started a popular blog about embracing simplicity.
They have since become some of the country's leading evangelists on the virtues of living with less. The friends, now 32, are currently on a 100-city tour to promote Everything That Remains, an earnest self-published memoir written by Millburn with footnotes by Nicodemus that attempts to recount their change of course and serves as a primer for those curious about what it means to be a modern minimalist.
Here they share an adapted excerpt from the book in which Millburn reminisces about how his lifestyle transformation began at home, by figuring out what to do with all of his stuff ...
