A review by oregon_small_fry
The Minimalist Home: A Room-By-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life by Joshua Becker

2.0

While good advice, this book was overall pretty cheesy and much too long. Honestly too, people who hoard stuff have some sort of trauma that a book like this isn't going to address. Also, we need to stop the start of the over consuming- you can clean out your house every year but if you just keep refilling it, this isn't going to help you very much.

I also realize how disconnected I am from the "average" american- I own zero TVs, do not have a house full of stuff, do not endlessly shop/keep up on all the fashion styles, etc. My home is already pretty minimalist which I've mindfully been working towards my entire adult life. Now that I own a home though, I see how easy it is to slip into owning more and more stuff & fill spaces up.

I do wish though that more people embraced a minimalist life; cleaning out my grandma's 1800 SF home + 2 car garage that was literally filled to the brim makes me realize that we really are chained to the things we own, how much money we waste on these things; how much time cleaning and how freeing it is to release all this unneeded stuff.

The message is important but this book did not hit a home run for me. I guess these guys have a podcast but I have a rule where I don't listen to podcasts that have two (or more) men hosts