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In our highly consumerist society, we are always seeking more and bigger. Over time, things have gotten bigger and bigger, such as houses, cars, and many other things. We often look at bigger as something that improves our lives; however, always seeking more and bigger in our lives comes with a lot of baggage. Baggage such as more bills, more worries, and more stress.
In this video, I was to tackle the question, "Is bigger better?" Many people often overlook the baggage that comes with bigger and I believe that once you see this baggage, you understand that living a materialistic lifestyle is not better.
"5 Reasons Bigger Is Not Better"
1. There A Lot More That Can Go Wrong
It doesn't matter how cautiously you live your life, something will eventually go wrong. And although you can't prevent bad things from happening, you can minimize them. Many people live their lives with so many expenses that their life becomes a ticking time bomb, and eventually something happens that causes a lot of problems in their life. If you live your life intentionally and minimize what can go wrong, you will face less problems in life.
2. Things Become Unnecessarily Complex With Too Many Worries
The problem with living a highly consumerist life is that it makes things more complex than it needs to be. When you have car payments, high rent payments, and other payments, it creates so many things to worry about in your life. Instead of enjoying your things, you spend more time worrying about paying the bills. The more simple your life, the less worries you will have and the more you can enjoy.
3. Your Options Become Limited
Stuff often holds us back from doing things in our lives. If you have an expensive car payment, expensive rent, and a bunch of debt, it makes your options limited because you have less control over your life. The bigger your life is, the more there is holding you back. Living a highly materialistic life makes you less able to take risks or seek positive opportunities in your life. However, if you limit your consumption, the less you are held back and the more you can pursue what you want in life.
4. You Stuff Starts To Own You
When you choose to live a highly consumerist life with a bunch of material possessions, it doesn't matter how much money and resources you have, there comes a point when your stuff starts to own you. Having an abundance of material possessions makes it harder to have control over your life because of all the baggage that comes with the stuff. However, when you live a more minimalist life, you have more control over your things, instead of them controlling you.
5. The Trade Off Isn’t Worth It
Life is about trade offs and you can't have it all. Whatever life you decide to live, it is important to understand the trade offs that come with that lifestyle. I personally believe living a "big" lifestyle with a bunch of material possessions isn't worth it because of all the baggage that comes from the lifestyle.
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What do you think, "Is bigger better?"
NO!
NO!
Bigger problems
A cluttered life leads to a cluttered mind!
The best thing my dad ever told me was "You can have more, but you can't have better."
It was also the last thing he ever told me.
As a renter of a $750 two bedroom apartment, and someone who's owned their car the past three years and cell phone the past 4 years, let me tell you... !!THIS!! is the most luxurious my life has been to date. I don't take it lightly or for granted. I love being a minimalist. Bigger is NOT better. The joy in heart, waking up not having to add finances to the other stressors in my life, is levitating.
Wow! You have a better deal than me! Congrats!
$750 for a 2-bedroom apartment? Where? In my state you can't get a studio for that.
@@NJGuy1973 I am in Ohio
@@ElAgustin Mr. Williams, you aren't working for The Man anymore... LOL. That's a better deal!!! I am actually on mandatory OT the next two weeks. 😅😅😂🤣
I pay 1500 a month for a shity one bedroom in Dallas Texas
Bigger living is a bigger headache! Materialism is ultimately unfulfilling. It’s just stuff. Nicer to have freedom from the complexity. And more saved than spent each month.
The older I get the less I want so I’m making sure that I keep my life simple. Keeping things very basic and to the point. I’m not looking to take on more work and more responsibilities. I’m just looking for more free time. Why dig the hole deeper and stress yourself to death.Having less is just a relief.I love my new lifestyle, don’t want any material thing owning me. This video said it all so perfectly 👌Excellent! 👍❤️🙂
I do say Keep it simple stupid
The having options part speaks to me!
I can stay home with kids for couple of years and my husband can take up a job that pays less, but makes him happier! With higher expenses our family unit would suffer!
I'm a 49 years old single father.. sucessful carreer, car and an apartment full of STUFF, books, records, doodahs.. I have been spending the past 3 years selling properties, endlless amount of STUFF that I have been accumulating the past 30 years. Everything that I have bought has not given me more joy, but more of a burrden. Everything you said is so spot on. I wish I would have had this perspective when I was younger. Your viewers will be much wiser that I was. Now I want to own nothing and use my money for time with my kids and for experiences.
I’ve discovered a massive correlation between my thoughts and my things.
Purging all my stuff as I transitioned into traveling full-time, I couldn’t help but analyze the stuff I’d amassed and what did I discover? The piles of things were basically a lot of expensive confusion; retail therapy’s literally a bunch of crap.
By getting rid of the physical stuff I was able to get a clearer picture of who I am, purging some of the mental baggage I’d accumulated in my 40 years here. Separating who you are from who you think you’re supposed to be is huge! People don’t realize how expensive their emotions are, and as I stopped reaching for things as a bandaid to slap over whatever emotion I was hoping to evade, I’ve become more aligned with who I am, what I intrinsically value. It is so incredibly liberating! It’s so empowering to not need an army of things to validate who you are.
It's ironic, isn't it?
I can totally relate. Love your thoughts ❤
I came to realize this too. I recommend reading clear your clutter with Feng Shui from Karen Kingston, life changer for me!
Amen brother! I have a little baby flat in the UK. I own a pushbike to get to work 6 miles away ( mostly uphill...poor me). I don't own a TV, a soundsystem, etc. I do everything on my phone ( which is never new). I enjoy the simple life! I did stifle a few sniggers when the price of petrol rocketed recently. All my friends with big cars constantly moan about running costs. ( I can drive but choose not to for health and environmental and cost reasons). I love hearing the skylark singing its heart out in the summer when am cycling to work at 5am. I used to be envious of people with more. But have worked for many unhappy millionaires. Am happy being " mindful" about money. I do love holidays tho. Particularly solo travel in Morocco!
So poetic!
1. I have no debt.
2. I have low rent (live with roommates).
3. I don’t own a car. I own a bike 😊
Way to go!!✨️🙌
Roommates suck
Right on!
That's the way to go! Looking to move soon and sell the car!
Where do you live that you don’t need a car?
My father is a heavy consumer and hoarder. We're moving and both where we live now and the house we're moving into is filled with stuff never used or little to no value. He has so much stuff he pays storage on a number of things over the years, along with numerous fines/tickets for unsightly properties. To say he's overwhelmed is an understatement, and I've had to sacrifice a lot of my time to help him. Your videos hit home with me a lot, I just want to share how consumerism can wreak havoc on families. I have felt obliged to help him as he is my father and I do love him but at the same time I despise the lifestyle. His problems have (and shouldn't have) become my problems and has lead me into some psychological issues because of this. I have seen first hand how consumerism has affected him, and myself/our family and it is NOT worth it. I strongly urge people in a similar scenario to seek help for yourself and loved ones as soon as possible. YOU are worth it.
This is so relatable to me, as if it's I who has written it. While we are from different parts of the world, it intrigues me how same we all are, be it the first world or the third world.
This is about being a hoarder, not about having bigger and better. Clutter is awful. Large houses and cars are not.
@@jj9306 No. I want to be rich myself and enjoy life with better things. Almost everybody has someone that hoards. Hoarding is something very different than living an abundant life with all the things you want or need, and with them in higher quality (and size).
The problem is not having large and good, the problem is being too poor to have them. That means you failed in life and trying to feel better about your (our, as I am also one) failure by lying to yourself saying the shitty houses we live in, which we sometimes can't even own, are better because it's "less space to clean" won't change our reality. If it works for you and you're happy, more power to you, but don't tell me the market doesn't price the value of things accordingly, otherwise small studio apartments would be more expensive than mansions.
@@jj9306 I am all for FIRE. And for decluttering. But what's better is better. A large house is better. A new car is better than an old one. Do you get my point? I am just being objective. Of course they come at a cost. If you're poor like me, you can't afford them, so you have to sacrifice your lifestyle to feed yourself and have an emergency reserve (and maybe retire earlier). Now, saying something clearly inferior is better just for the sake of the argument makes no sense to me, sorry.
What s the use of a big luxury kitchen filled with latest equippment when you have to work long hours to repay it and therefore have to order take away. ?
I used to be a bad materialist in terms of trying to keep up with the Joneses. I went through a job layoff and I was able to become quite a minimalist in terms of debt and bills. I now invest a lot of my money and I have a paid off car and minimal amounts of money on the credit cards. I don't cut the credit cards completely to keep my credit score up. It feels a lot more liberating to not have to worry about items owning you in payments. In regard to housing, I do agree 100% on the argument that bigger isn't always better. My grandmother used to tell me more house equals more cleaning.
Offline shopping will always be better for me. I still remember going out grocery shopping with my mom when I was a kid. Some of the best memories of my life.
Also, it is easier for me to prevent myself from buying unnecessary things when I'm out there actually shopping lol.
I relate to the idea of stuff owning you. As a homeowner, I work to pay for not only the mortgage but insurance, HOA fees, property taxes, yard upkeep, and general maintenance like repairing and replacing things that get worn out. I haven't fallen into the trap of remodeling my 20 plus year old home to keep up with interior design trends, but that is another money pit people fall into.
Wise words from a young person.
Thanks, Jeremy!
I don't understand why people need big houses and so much stuff just because. The bigger the more upkeep and cleaning there is. I'd rather be working on goals.
Spot on! My husband and I decided to downsize to a smaller home with less acreage when we were in our 40's. It made sense on numerous levels. However, it apparently did not make sense to the bank! We had to write an actual explanation as to why we were downgrading on real estate. Banks are the enemy when it comes to keeping you in debt. Fortunately for us, I learned ages ago how to play the game when I worked for one LOL.
Similar experience to me...the few years I had a credit card (it came with my home loan..now paid off) I hardly used it and paid always before due with the full amount the few times i used it. They would always try to give me more cards. Recently tried to downsize, sold property and they literally got cranky with me for daring to leave them ! They hate good customers who pay off their debts..how dare I 😤. Soo after all that there was no thank you for my custom or my pride in refusing to languish in debt was of no importance to them. They didnt seem to worry they pssd me off either. Not going to go bigger for me...they can fk off. Soo bloody dishonest...* And what's more I'm convinced they're a threat to western countries economys, they've grown too big for their britches !! Greetings from Australia.
My husband and I were both raised in pricey Southern California. Our rent was going up by $50 every 6 months. By now it is,probably $2500 or more. We decided to move. We bought a home in another state for less than $20,000. We always pay cash for a used truck, when needed. No credit cards. Everything else here is very cheap, also. Taxes, licenses-, car registration--whatever. He is a gardener--so we took his business with us. We just have utilities and insurance--also cheap, I'm selling, donating or dumping excess stuff. Our move was in 2004. A few years later my son and his family moved here--9 doors down from us---in a home they own.
My tiny house is being dwarf by new million dollar houses. I shake my head at these 30-ish yr olds and wonder if them paying $15,000/yr in property taxes is worth the 3000 Sq ft house in a nothing burger city.
Unless you have kids in school, you're a fool for paying $15K/yr in property taxes.
i'd rather own my fewer posessions and have the time to enjoy em, rather than borrowing many posessions and not having the time to enjoy em because i'm always working to afford em. thank you for the powerful message Augustine :D
Same here
The other interesting thing is that being minimilist does not mean missing out either you are just more focused or mindful of what your priority "wants" are after needs are met.
I live in an apartment clearly smaller than a house and this helps reduce my consumption there have been many times I found myself starting to think about impulse buying some crap but literally I have run out of space so there is nowwhere to put that item and I am forced to stop. If I had a house there would be much more room to fill it up!
It's strange how our minds work even when we have everyting we need there is that odd behavoiur of accumulation of things for no good reason?
Great content! I can honestly say that ever since I became a minimalist, I noticed that my life had become more simpler and stress-free.
EL AUGUSTIN!!! So young, yet so wise! I too am an older person wishing I knew all of this sooner. Life isn’t too bad, but it could be easier. This is my year of undoing. Going smaller!
It's never too late, just focus on the things you really want like a priority want list and reduce the spend in other areas. Good luck!
@@MarkMark-ji6ts THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I’m taking one section at a time, and I’ve got my eyes on the prize!
I don't want a bigger house, bigger phone, bigger TV. Builders need to build smaller homes again.
I wish they would but they are looking at the profit they can make. Bigger and brand new means more expensive. Bigger profit margin.
@@mamakash exactly. Pretty sad state of affairs IMO
No car payments. No debt. Low house payment. I’m happy. I don’t have to look good for anybody. I’m trying to declutter almost everything. Not attached to material things. ❤️
Your example about moving is relatable to me. I got a job offer and move across the country to another state. But it didnt stress me out. I was on a vacation with friends until the last day. I only needed less than one day to pack all of my stuff into 2 luggages and was ready to move in the next day.
Whenever I see your videos and other people talking about minimalism, it feels so personal becouse my dad, 52 is in so much debt becouse of his bad money decisions and consumeristic lifestyle and one might think that it would have impact on his mental health but that's not completely true, because it just not affects him but the complete family, our mistakes and habits has as much as impact on our loved ones than on ourself, something which is often underlooked in conversations.
And here I'm on a path of minimalism and spirituality, feels so soothing to be different than jonases.
👏👏👏👏
Good day, Mr. Austin Williams. A great video and your tagline is one of my favorite sayings. My grandmother used to say big things come in small packages. I agree totally and your video today proves this, Mr. Williams. If one has a swimming pool that sucker has to be cleaned by someone which creates more hecticness in one's life. Growing up I used to go swimming in a lake and it was so much fun. Of course, that was 50 years ago and at that time I and everyone I knew had an uncluttered life. Keep up the great work, Mr. Williams. Your video proves that looking after things even if one can afford them affords much of your attention. I mean, I'd rather clean a small apartment than a mansion with six bathrooms, and even if I got someone to clean it for me that again is stress and planning and budgeting.
I agree! We have a two story 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom house, and it's served us well while raising children. Now that we are in our 50's and the kids are almost out of the nest, I'm dreaming of a smaller one story house with 2 bedrooms. I no longer yearn for new cars or new things. It's a good place to be in life.
@@trishredding8009 I perfectly understand, Trish.
@@trishredding8009
Exactly what I did so fully understand you. Bought a 2 bedroom 2 bath brand new 1 floor/level condo and I love it. Cleaning is actually enjoyable and utilities are $75 a month at the moment due to the heater being constantly on which is $25 higher than normal. Do not miss my old 3000 sf home with upper, main and basement levels. Cleaning and going up and down the stairs sucked!
Such a wise words. Sometime I see people around me trying to convince themselves that "the bigger the better" because they don't want to live a common life like others, and if they have the chance to live a 'big life' they must do it. However, at last, they are not as happy as they thought. It's crazy.
Agustin, I hope you realize that your videos could very well be directed at those facing retirement. You are espousing all the ideas that will allow retirees to enjoy their time when their careers are over. I'm close to that time now and seeing your point of view makes me see that I should have a strategy to deal with it.
I've been following you for a month and I saw your content are real good and a gem in this trash society... Have my Subscription... Help more people to see the light in this Dark Ages of Hyper Capitalistic, Over Consumerist and Full of Greed World... More Powers AUGUSTIIINE!!!
Keeping the #2 reason in control has been so important for me as a young adult. Things can get out of hand so quickly in this age when you get influenced by so many people and different stories
I got a comment from a CZcams celebrity! haha, thanks Seve!
@@ElAgustin 😂😂
Wish a few companies could make cars and appliances with less features so it could be affordable again.
To add to that, I wish home builders build smaller homes again
I'm so happy I found you.
I happy I found you too!
Why I review my budget frequently to avoid theses traps. And widen my options
Interesting take on consumerism and how it's not always about having more. It's important to consider the impact of our choices on our lives and the environment.
They make things bigger and better because THEY KNOW people will buy it. It's all a game. It's crazy,
I swear in retrospect that I could've been a monk or one of those military guys who just keeps living in the barracks long after you don't have to.
I've moved so many times now in my life. Each time, I've gotten rid of more and more to where on the latest move, I'm down to the bare essentials. I've never been happier and less stressed.
Well said, Agustin. I find that the less I have, the less I have to manage and be stressed about.
True scenario. family member A vs Family member b. a) large cottage #2 ($35,000 to build) on lake 1 hour away, lot rental $3000/year. No running water. and pay own hydro. Maintain own lot and cottage-new roof cost $5000. Motor Boat (hardly ever use) and canoe. Spend time cutting grass and pulling weeds. Hydro (paid to put in) and monthly utility cost . Insurance $600/ year. Used 40 days a year. Property taxes ($1000). double taxed by province and municipality. Sleeps 6 but used by 2.
Family B. smaller used trailer ($900) on lake 20 minutes away, lot rental $900/season & $50 winter storage cost=$950 yearly. Used 126 days. Hydro, lot maintenance including mowing lawn and animal/pest control, taxes and electricity, running water, shower facilities, free events/activities included in annual fee. Canoe with electric motor. Insurance $30/year. Roof maintenance cost $20. Used 127 days. Sleeps 6 and used by 4.
Watching Augustine videos = Great Wisdom
When I was house hunting 15 years ago, I wanted a house that was around 800 sq ft.
I couldn’t find one that met my other needs. It had to be in a safe area with a yard and not too far to drive to work. I ended up with a 1400 sq ft home. I was surprised at how hard it is to find a home that’s smaller than 1800 sq ft and most are 2000 sq ft or larger.
I agree 💯 percent. I have found houses in the area I want in the 800-1200 sqft range, but they are still expensive and most of them are 40+ years old.
Yeah, it's interesting. Where I live all the houses are over 100 years old and they're either mansions or really practical size houses.
Another great video and I love every sentence of it. I am happy to see more people embracing minimalism and your videos are important in this "awakening". Muchas gracias🙂🙂🙂
Thank you!
You are setting people free! Thank you for your videos!
Thanks!!
Love this! Every bit of it is absolute truth. Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this!
When l start doing math , l always get cold feet when l get tempted to upgrade my lifestyle… Thank you for sharing this …
Thought provoking as always and I really appreciate the written outline you include with all your videos!
Thanks, Peter!
Bigger home = bigger down payment, high mortgage, high taxes, & high utility bills, which I personally believe that was the core of the 2008 house market crash. Big SUVs and Big Trucks = big price tag, big down payment, big monthly payments, bigger fuel bills, and doesn't retain its value. More to loose if one looses their job or expensive emergency/accident happens
Mad respect Austin. You have pulled me out of the materalist consumerist mindset, and I have been spared a lot of stress and complications. As a young adult, my eyes have opened to how corrupt and dark humans are when it comes to business. I really do take learning from other people's bad life choices seriously.
I want a decent tiny fresh house, with a decent small car that gets me from point A to B, and work from home income streams. Nothing more. Now life feels a lot more simple to me. No women, no children and no schools to worry about. No this, no that. Just peace and simplicity for the most part 😌
“The things you own end up owning you”
Always here for the best encouragement!!! Thanks Austin!
Thanks for watching!
True. I spent 5 years in consulting. Lots of travel, 4-5 star hotels, "free" dinners with colleagues and clients (including Michelin stars). There were lots of good moments, but was I happy? Emptiness, perform more, do better, outsmart this/that person, politics, etc.
I left consulting and still live a privileged lifestyle in one of the richest European capitals. I am more generous, do more sports, I buy second hand quality clothes, I have no car, and spend money on experiences. I am extremely careful about any of my new possessions and the energy/time/money they might require.
However, I am not sure if I came to this point if I have not gone through the opposite before that.
Thank you for sharing
Shehnaz here from
Johannesburg
South Africa
You have great wisdom my friend.
Thanks, Robert!
Good points, but false premise to pit a minimal life against materialistic life. It's all subjective and we are all living somewhere in the middle. Life style creep is real, I agree, but there are things that really do make people happy and fulfilled, like a boat if they love fishing, a top of the line sewing machine if they love sewing, etc.
Commenting for algorithm.... love u bro ❤
Thanks!
Interesting....a younger audience you stated was showing in your stats as a majority of your new demographic.
You're actually great for all ages. A lot of adults much older than you, need to heed yo
ur advice 😀
Keep up the great work 👍 👏
Life is as complex as you make it, wow, that’s something to think about.
Have a great weekend 🤩🤩
You as well, Jon!
Awesome videos man, I love the Spanish intro and outro
I need to look back to my videos and figure out when it caught on!
It's never too late. Obviously, it would have been much more pleasant for me if I had come up with the idea to be a minimalist when I was young... I am now 58 years old. But it's not TOO LATE!
Better late than never... I switched to minimalism about 1 year ago. I think I'm even more minimalist than you, dear Austin, because I live in 14 square meters, including the bathroom!
And I still feel like I have too much stuff (and I've already gotten rid of 95 percent of what I had...) and now I'm trying to fit everything I have into a single - albeit huge - military backpack and a handbag!
Believe it or not, I want to spend my old days away from civilization, off-grid, for example without electricity, in Nature (practically in the wilderness). I have been diligently learning all kinds of bushcraft tricks for some time now...
Oh, I didn't even say that yet, I don't really need kitchen equipment, because I follow the raw carnivore diet, i.e. I eat raw meat and offal 99 percent of the time! Certain insects, too, raw, without batting an eye! I am prepared to eat 9swallow...) even raw, living earthworms!
It is cheap, and healthy. Free food from Mother Nature...
I like to think of myself as an "honorary caveman". Like a "modern caveman". Or, a "mundane hermit".
Well, that's quite "hardcore" minimalism, I think...
But since then I AM SO MUCH HAPPIER and my health has improved dramatically!
So it's NEVER TOO LATE. I'm not disputing that, better sooner than later, okay! But better late than never!
Eating raw meat is pretty dangerous and you should stop doing it but otherwise im rooting for you man
@@pivomanslovensko The dangerous thing is not to eat raw meat, but to eat weeds (that is, vegetables and fruits, especially RAW) and eat carbohydrates.
Our gastric acid is so strong as that of the carcass-eaters and Pythons. Of course, there ARE some risk anyway, it is impossible to avoid each and every risk, but I choose THIS risk and not the others, because this diet had helped me a LOT to improve my health!
I lost lots of weight, my deep depression is gone, no itchy skin, no low back pain, more energy, bigger muscles, and so on.
@@carnivorecaveman to each his own
Hello 👋
Buy big stuff or Small Stuff. But make sure it's all on Cash purchase. No plastic money or debts
However I agree 💯 also frugal lifestyle better.
More money saved more close to freedom financial
Wow, I had no idea people were spending that amount of money monthly on their cars!
I'm in the UK and we just bought our car outright so there is no monthly payments.
Great video. 👍
In brief, a Materialistic person Vs. Minimalistic person:
1.) There’s a lot more that can go wrong with big debt, 2.) complexities increase with excess debt -too many worries 3.) Your OPTIONS become limited and complicated -immobile? 4.) Your stuff starts to OWN You 5.) The trade off (“bigger is better”) isn’t worth it. -Decision Making Tradeoffs -Lack of control..Walk-with-Wisdom &/or Run-To-Daylight -a BrainWarriorsWAY 👣💗⚡️🧠🤑
I agree 👍👍💯
I own 3 bedroom house 🏠 fully paid off.
I own Small Car 🚗 fully paid off also.
I have 2 Passive incomes.
I have Active income Job.
Me doing well. Living strictly frugal lifestyle 😊
I invest completely my passive incomes on true money 💰 called Gold Builions
Also No. Credit cards 💳
Primer comentario y en español, merezco un corazón!!! Gracias por tus videos Agustín!! ❤️
Gracias Marijito!
the only thing we should have more and more is books. knowledge is the key
Size matters got it! 🤣 good stuff Austin!
Love the update to the lighting in the background.
Thanks!
Awesome vid!
During the pandemic lockdown we had to move twice in a 3 month time line. The first move we didn't feel the pain of our stuff because we had help from friends moving. The 2nd move we paid movers, and the combination of having to move unexpectedly in such a short time, and hiring a moving company, really opened my eyes to the burden of too much unnecessary stuff. We are still learning and have come a long way in minimizing. I don't want to feel like my stuff owns me.
To be fair to materialist's, if it all goes wrong they may have possessions they can liquidate to go some of the way to paying back debt. Not perfect as they'll likely get far less for the item than it cost, but they'll get more than the person who spent all the money on experiences, (a simplified view, I appreciate).
Your videos are super dope bro because over past few years I enjoy life with little as long as I have peace of mind
Thanks!!
Keeping up with my boy Agustine! Just Suscribed hasta el proximo video chico!
I have always been a minimalist my whole life just didn't know it until I saw your videos thanks
I didn't know I was a minimalist until I started making videos, haha. I've just always been one and I learned the word in the last couple of years! This lifestyle has always been normal!
New words for 23': "Down size, Tiny, and Frugal "!! IMHO
Great points. I’ve learned some of these lessons in my life.
interesting title😅 but yes, I agree with your principles. Well said🎉
Paid cash for our very modest home, paid cash for our small (used) car. Never had debts, I use my credit card as a cash card and I spend only the money I have. I stopped working dependantly at 52 and live with my husband from his ridiculous tiny pension. In two years I got mine which is a lot bigger than his and ask myself what the hell I'll do with all that money. 😉
Cloudwatching from Italy
Being a MINIMALIST is not a choice anymore but a necessity now.
Exactly!
My house is about 1,400 feet. The more I get rid of stuff, the bigger and easier to clean it. A house with more square feet wasted. My car is a small SUV. Its size is perfect. The car is paid off. The mortgage remaining is small. My wardrobe size is perfect. My expenses are small. My neighbor moved. The interesting thing is the number of dumpsters they filled with their stuff. I thought that's a lot of stuff wasted.
Thank you
Thank you!
Save your money and be very careful how you spend it. Thanks
Mo’ money, mo’ problems.
So true about your stuff coming to own you!
Excellent!!!!
Thanks!
That's why some choose to be homeless, for they have nothing to loose when they get into trouble with the law.
I'd like to be a minimalist but it's so easy to just hoard stuff
Watch The Minimal Mom, Kate Kaden or Clutterbug for inspiration
All comes down to the person financial foundation. It’s either you can afford it or not
Thanks
Glad I live a minimalist lifestyle
The bigger they are, the harder they fall
Yep. Facts
Like the animation. Love the motivation
Just because a person has the money to pay for something doesn't mean they can afford it. I think that's where a lot of people's finances go sideways as well. I mean, if someone gets enormous joy from owning a boat, for example, then that's fantastic. BUT, if they can't pay cash for two of them, they probably can't afford to buy ONE.
Awesome video, chico
Agustín, where do you get your t-shirts?
I live in a 8,000 sq. ft. home and I started out in a 500 sq. ft. studio apartment! Bigger is definitely much better!😊
100% agree
Mistakes are unavoidable; that's life...but while you are at it, havesomefun!
Not at all.. along with finance struggles and stress, there's the time to look after it all and to clean and maintain it. That's not for me, I'd rather be doing something for fun and free, living in a smaller place and driving my debt free car! 😎
The avg monthly payment of a car is $644? Whaaaat? I sit here and complain about my $78 car insurance and ride my bike as much as possible 😂