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The best minimalism advice: if you’re thinking of getting rid of something, imagine that you’re buying it for the first time. If you wouldn’t buy it then you should get rid of it.

"Money is not important, buy my book to know why"

"My children will not value me if I do not have this dishsoap" said unironically is one of the funniest things I've heard all week

That’s why I really like the Marie Kondo version of things: you keep only what makes YOU happy. It’s minimal in the sense that you don’t keep what you don’t need, but the goal is to make your home a reflection of what’s important to you, not just to get rid of as much as possible.

Who’s going to tell these two guys that minimalism is not a replacement for therapy?

I already practice the "religion of Minimalism". It's called being Poor.

These men will never know the joy of having an entire wall of their house dedicated to showcasing years of handmade manatees from various Florida art shows.

Y’know these guys go on and on about how objects won’t “make you happy” but I’ve just bought a toad-shaped teapet.. and I gotta say..! This little guy brings me a whole lotta joy.

These gentlemen quit filling their voids with stuff, and became full of themselves instead.

"Let's commercialize anti-consumerism!" Only in America...

These guys give off, “why are you depressed? Just smile and be happy.” Vibes

I have pretty bad memory issues due to my mental illness, and seeing the small stuff I collect over the years helps me remember it, even if it is just small photos taken on my polaroid. to hear these guys be like "you don't need that, the memories are in your head not objects!!" really makes me frustrated.

True minimalists become single cell organisms smh 😔

"It was the American dream, but it wasn't my dream." Is this a horse girl movie?

Can't believe Drew not only invented gay people, but bisexual people too! He's truly a pioneer of our time.

My ex was religiously minimalist and I watched these docs with him. I ended up getting rid of so much stuff, and honestly, there's a lot that I miss, even though they tell you "you won't miss anything!"

they’re so minimalist they didn’t even add substance to their messages.. amazing 🥺👏😌🙏

I am very sick of people with a lot of money telling me how money isn’t important to happiness

these guys will never understand the happiness that overtakes me every morning when i see my plastic rat skeleton with a tiara and sunglasses sitting next to my beetlejuice rubber duck and my rubber duck in a tux every morning

Important life lesson: When you find you learned a lesson that feels profound, don't assume everyone else needs you to teach them that lesson - at least consider the possibility that you were the last to learn it.

This is any English teacher’s worst nightmare because of stuff, things and stuff

They have reached a point of minimalism where they now limit their speech and must repeat/recycle the same phrases over and over.

I love how they said “watches, jewelry, and shoes,” as though shoes are not an essential item and watches don’t serve any real purpose either; just shows how out of touch they are. imagine implying with a straight face that shoes are just as frivolous and unneeded as jewelry. plus everybody in the world needs shoes, but a huge amount of people can’t get higher education even if they want to.

I just think it's ironic that they're literally profiting off of people's desire to simplify their lives. By railing against consumerism, they've literally just created something else for us to consume.

They’re so minimalist they have nothing to say, it’s kinda genius.

"My wife is gonna leave me if I don't start JAWzercising." Truly everyone's greatest fear.

I remember my mother watched a documentory like this when I was a kid. After watching it she decided to "convert" to minimlism and threw out most of our stuff. Most of my room was bleak and I had no toys or books. Alot of the things that we did own were branded by the company that made the documentory. She also started regularly giving money to the company so that they could show others "The joys of being a minimalist" or some B.S. like that. It was, essentially, a cult. Im just glad that she stoped.

Minimalism isn't for me. I grew up poor, we didn't have a lot of things, but my parents were always able to provide our needs. I was grateful and I appreciated the little things in life. But heck, I'm happier now that I can treat myself from time to time. I wouldn't trade this for the world. I won't go back to just having the bare minimum.

This is why I prefer Marie Kondo, she doesn’t get preachy, she just wants to help people declutter and treat everything they own with value.

When you're a true minimalist there is only one mom

I’ve been influenced heavily by the boom in minimalism that’s grown up with me. In my family there’s a reactive mixture of hoarders and purgers. My great grandpa had rotting vehicles all over his property and an engine block in his living room, and so my mom doesn’t keep many things longterm aside from pictures and quilts. I like that minimalism asks you to interrogate why you want to get something and why you want to keep it, but I hate the way it’s executed when taken to an extreme. It feels and looks cold. I like the Mari Kondo method of reducing things down though, it feels more human.

I, myself, am a proud maximalist. I think that finding beauty and happiness in small things is a gift and those who manage to find happiness in the smallest and most “useless” items always seem to be the most collected and interesting people. I mean- have you ever seen the lady who collects frog items? She really seem like she’s happy

I’m a maximalist. Therefore, I watched this video twice.

“This thing called minimalism” He’s saying it like it’s not a word regular people use outside of this cult

I like how minimalism is basically just cleaning your house and then not buying stuff you don't need or want.

as someone with ADHD a lot of my memories are in my stuff. I'll forget about many things if I can't see them or a reminder of them. I rely heavily on little trinkets and mementos to remind me of the good times I've had with family on vacation or with my friends. Getting rid of all my stuff would make those memories much harder to recall.

"My wife and husband found out about each other and now THEY'RE having sex" - sounds like a good movie plot lmao.

I'm a minimalist because I'm poor, underpaid and underemployed. Not because I'm an elitist.

Rich person: “Money won’t make you happy.” Me: “Well, give me some of your money and I’ll see for myself then.”

i hate people saying money doesn’t buy happiness. like yes, there are things like community and cultural identity that can actually be actively destroyed as you gain wealth (but that’s a rabbit hole) but poverty kills people. I really love marie kondo’s message which is extremely individualized and practical. if it means something to you or has a practical use, keep it, but it’s helpful to reevaluate why you own items every once and a while.

THESE guys' minimalism is just rich people cosplaying broke people

WHY DOES HE ACT LIKE LIVING IN THE SUBURBS WAS SO HARD FOR HIM

They really went full throttle with the youth pastor cadence and tactics

btw you are so spot on with the cult vibe stuff bc the "I had a void in my life and tried to fill it with stuff" line is something I heard from countless priests and religious speakers, basically a staple

“I asked him, ‘why the hell are you so happy?’, he spent the next 20 minutes telling me about cocaine.”

These guys took Minimalism to the Max. I bet they enjoy their minimalist condos, with their minimalist sports cars, while going to minimalist 5-star hotels and giving minimalist paid speeches.

I've always had an odd relationship with 'stuff' when I was little I wasn't really allowed anything that I didn't have reason to actively use every single day. trinkets and dolls, even things like jewelry were deemed ' unnecessary ' so why waste the money. this wasn't really an issue, I was an imaginative kid so I found ways to entertain myself. the issue was when family or friends got me things that were categorized as ' useless ' I would technically be allowed to keep the item, but it wouldn't take long before my step dad would destroy the item in front of me (or make me do it myself) as punishment for something, usually something small like I didn't clean the dishes well enough. it was especially heartbreaking when the item was a gift from my bio dad. after my mother and step dad split I would keep any trinket I was gifted or bought for myself, even if it was broken, unused, or just something I didn't really care for. I wouldn't consider myself a hoarder, but I found it really difficult to let go of something I perceived as having sentimental value, real or otherwise.

I really dont like when people endorsing minimalism say to have fewer sentimental items. No no no. So many people have made the mistake of throwing out things that mean so much to them (and therefore have intrinsic value) in the name of this kind of minimalism and regretting it so much. I always thought minimalism was supposed to be about frugality and just not holding onto things you dont need.

“my kids wont like me because i dont have a certain dish soap” WAIT IFJFJDJFFK WHAT???

They still think that their life is inherently "better" than everyone else because they have something no one else has. "Minimalism."

Last year drew was minimalist,this year he’s bought everything

4:16 I swear this scene is animated, wtf. This mans literally looks computer generated here.

“i asked him - why the hell are you so happy?” A completely normal question I ask my friends all the time

You see, the reason the documentary got a single star, is because they didn't need any more.

It's not the minimalism that makes these guys happy, it's the money.

Minimalism goes beyond 'things'. We need to get rid of relationships that are not positive. We need to stop spending our time in ways that no longer suit us. These two guys just fell back into their addiction in a different way.

Why are Hozier and Steve Buscemi trying to get me to join their minimalist cult?

"My children will not value me if i dont have this dish soap"

Oh yes, these guys gave me the vibes I grew up with: super hip and cool evangelical preachers spouting catchy and kitschy phrases to make me feel something strongly. That's why I didn't think these guys were weird. I had seen their style before.

6:30 - starts talking about the old documentary and how it was exactly the same. In fact it was so much the same that I assumed that he was talking about that one this whole time. I didn't even realize that they made a new one!

“Our memories... are inside us” I have ADHD, I have not had a single goddamn memory in me for years

I like how it’s always rich ass people who romanticize minimalism and not needing much.

Reminder guys, you shouldn’t feel bad for buying something that makes u happy and that u can afford no matter how much you don’t need it

It's equivalent to people saying "just be happy" to people suffering with depression.

Thats why I prefer the Marie Kondo documentary. She also has the minimalism aproach , but in a better way

minimalism feels aggressively condescending and i can't explain why

"Our memories are not in things, they're inside us". yeah but if I don't write my to do list, I'll forget half the things I'm supposed to do that day.

I was a big fan of these guys for a bit. Gave away a bunch of shit I now regret. I listened to their podcast for a bit and it literally was the same thing over and over and over...I was at one point able to recount their minimalism origin stories almost verbatim. When I started to realize these guys had nothing else to say, I kept listening for a bit just to play a game of how well can I predict their answers to submitted questions. That got old quick since I always predicted it well. Nonetheless, I was still excited when the second documentary came out because I figured it would be something new and they definitely needed something new. Yea..... I'm amazed they are still making podcasts I'm almost tempted to go listen to the newest one just to see how the hell they're managing to say the same stuff 5 years later. Kudos to them I guess?

The blonde dude's hair is so the opposite of minimalist.

Wow they are really in tune with kids. I used to hate my mom bcs she wouldn’t buy dawn premium dish soap

had a panic attack today & threw this on to distract myself Actually got me to start laughing in the middle of sobbing Thanks for all the videos man, you make great stuff

Imagine being into Minimalism and buying four different yet similar books about it

I miss when minimalism was just like, sleek logo design and stuff

This guy doesn’t talk like a pastor. He talks like those guys trying wayyy too hard to give their testimony at youth group. Chill out Kevin you’re 20

4:45 20 minutes? That’s not very minimalistic.

a couple years ago i discovered their podcast and listened to a few of the free clips they had on youtube. the red flags immediately started popping up when as soon as a segment where actual advice might exist started they would immediately cut it and put it behind a paywall.

he’s so minimalistic he got rid of the word “my”

"There was a g a p i n g v o i d in my life, and I filled that void withe literal hot hair and a sense of superiority."

One of the things I most appreciate about Drew is that he doesn’t just poke holes in people’s nonsense - he provides solutions to how it could have actually been better

I’m listening to this again while working on homework, and I gotta say, Drew is so right in the intro. In my food micrbio class, we watched a documentary (Poisoned: The Dirty Truth About Your Food, 10/10 and on Netflix) and it is one of the most effective classes I’ve had. It was about victims of serious cases of food borne illness (organ failure, coma, deaths) and it gave everything weight. It was personal and showed how much what we’re learning about matters. Numbers are easy to see and accept, but listening to a father talk about his son, not so much. And the shade they throw at these industry leaders and governmental officials during interviews was the most satisfying thing I’ve seen in so long. It’s such a good documentary, and I thank past Drew for giving me a place to info dump to no one about it.

I don't dislike the idea of minimalism but I ABSOLUTELY HATE those people that try to force it on you

"Let's talk about minimalism." *Proceeds to talk about how shitty his childhood was for 53 minutes.*

My man, drew, I've been to a church where the pastor, indeed, was just so cocky, and described every one of his accomplishments

your videos’ rewatchability level is epic drew

“Don't buy things, just be a minimalist” sounds like the advice my parents gave me when I told them I was depressed, “Stop being depressed.”

We were so POOR and BROKE. *shows house thats a little better than mine* Oh okay.

i love collecting things. i still have a stick that my ex friend gave me the first time we hung out, that i turned into an art project. it helps me remember all these little moments.

as a maximalist i find the video especially funny because i actually do find happiness in stuff. finding cool trinkets at the thrift store or cultivating large collections of things i adore makes me happy

As someone who was raised in the church, they most DEFINITELY speak like a pastor delivering a “hip new” sermon.

His "rich pastor" skit was uncomfortably close to how Joel Osteen and Kenneth Copeland actually are.

This video really needed making. Thank you.

The pastors he's talking about exist: televangelists.

There was a gaping void in his life so he filled it with minimalism, wrote a blog, made millions of dollars and now they can fly wherever they want and buy disposables without worrying about cost.

I understand that minimalism can have a lot of benefits, but they are saying "consumerisms says the more you have, the better you are as a person," and "minimalism says the less you have, the better you are as a person." Neither of those mentalities is healthy. The best thing for people is balance. The balance between minimalism and consumerism works differently for different people.

2 Videos watched, (this and the LOST one) two thoroughly enjoyed, really well researched, scripted, edited and performed. Excellent stuff!

“why are you so happy?” *talks for 20 minutes about minimalism* 20 minutes

If they are minimalists, why do they still have bodies? uncorporeal minimalist gang ftw

"looks at these heaps of crap my mom owns" points to tools in the kitchen that his mom probably used to cook him all his meals for the first 18 years of his life

I mean my take on minimalism is that it’s like fight club - on the surface the idea is cool and trendy but when you actually read the book you realize it’s not really about fight club it’s about a guy with mental health issues, who’s created a system to justify his own ideas that are perpetuating his own issues. Loll