Everything That Remains: A Memoir by The Minimalists Author: Joshua Fields Millburn | Language: English | ISBN:
B00HGJ9D6K | Format: EPUB
Everything That Remains: A Memoir by The Minimalists Description
What if everything you ever wanted isn't what you actually want? Twenty-something, suit-clad, and upwardly mobile, Joshua Fields Millburn thought he had everything anyone could ever want. Until he didn't anymore.
Blindsided by the loss of his mother and his marriage in the same month, Millburn started questioning every aspect of the life he had built for himself. Then, he accidentally discovered a lifestyle known as minimalism...and everything started to change.
That was four years ago. Since, Millburn, now 32, has embraced simplicity. In the pursuit of looking for something more substantial than compulsory consumption and the broken American Dream, he jettisoned most of his material possessions, paid off loads of crippling debt, and walked away from his six-figure career.
So, when everything was gone, what was left? Not a how-to book but a why-to book,
Everything That Remains is the touching, surprising story of what happened when one young man decided to let go of everything and begin living more deliberately. Heartrending, uplifting, and deeply personal, this engrossing memoir is peppered with insightful (and often hilarious) interruptions by Ryan Nicodemus, Millburn's best friend of twenty years.
- File Size: 369 KB
- Print Length: 234 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1938793188
- Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
- Publisher: Asymmetrical Press; 1st edition (January 1, 2014)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00HGJ9D6K
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Enabled
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A journey that more should take, January 12, 2014
By Norma J. Sassone "Norma J" (Olympia WA)
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This review is from: Everything That Remains: A Memoir by The Minimalists (Paperback)
I recently happened upon the Minimalists mentioned in a Houzz chat, while reading the trials and tribulations many have in downsizing when they retire or clearing out half a century of stuff left by parents who have died. I have struggled with this with my Mom who is very sentimental about many of her things. I am a baby boomer who never fell for all the materialistic life, have always paid cash for EVERYTHING (no credit card debt cars for cash), have saved, bought second hand, and culled out tons of stuff from my abode on a regular basis, so Millburn's ideas are really nothing new to many of us who never fell for the consumer addiction (and there ARE many of us out here). Though I have lived life simply, I somehow never have felt the need to flaunt it to others, travel the world talking about it, or start a blog. Maybe it is because my family taught us to value togetherness, the simple things in life, growing our own food, going for walks, traveling on the cheap, and pretty much detesting the wealthy and ostentatious, even though we lived a comfortable middle class life. Thus, we simply lived that life and never thought about.
That said,I really liked what Millburn has to say about his journey and its ultimate destination, but it bothers me just a bit that he and his friend Ryan have parlayed this into a way to make money by blogging and publishing, though I suppose all those of their generation might need to hear it since they have been incessantly bombarded with corporate, materialistic, consumerism since birth.
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