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By Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus · Follow: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram

Our friends at SPYR have created three minimalist wallpapers for your phone and desktop to commemorate the messages from our podcast, documentary, and live events, respectively. Download them for free:

Love People Use Things: mobile | desktop

Subtract Logo: mobile | desktop

Less Is Now: mobile | <a href="htt…

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October 5, 2017 marks the 18th anniversary for Interactive Touchscreen Solutions, Inc., the leader in providing digitized experiences to public and private facilities through the US &amp…

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A visit to Ann Arbor wouldn’t be complete without a trip to an eatery that bears the famous name. And the mouthwatering, no-nonsense recipes are designed to entice even novice bakers into the kitchen.

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By Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus · Follow: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram

A few years ago The Minimalists contributed to a twelve-month simple-living course, A Simple Year, hosted by our friend Courtney Carver (founder of Project 333). It was an outstanding experience.

Next year, 2018, The Minimalists are once again participating in A Simple Year, along with a stable of other simplicity experts who specialize in areas such as decluttering, travel, food, money, relationships, and work. We’d love to see you there.

You can find the course syllabus, read answers to FAQs, and become a Simple Year member here. Early registration for 2018 opens today, October 3, 2017.

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Emily E. LB. Twarog.  Politics of the Pantry: Housewives, Food, and Consumer Protest in Twentieth-Century America.  Oxford University Press, 2017.

I did a blurb for this book:

Who knew that American housewives were up in arms throughout the last century about rising food prices and misleading package information.  Twarog traces the history of how these movements developed, their connections to unions and women’s auxiliaries, and how twentieth-century politics systematically destroyed them.  Her book has much to teach us about what’s needed to preserve—and strengthen–today’s food movements.

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By Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus · Follow: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram

In this episode of The Minimalists Podcast, Joshua & Ryan speak with Julien Smith, founder of Breather, in Montreal, and they answer the following questions:

• What is the most challenging aspect of your current journey as The Minimalists?
• How do I reconcile many of the traditional goals I grew up with—corporate career, marriage, children, home ownership, etc.—with the tenets of minimalism I now follow?
• How do you recommend we address others who question our minimalist lifestyle?
• How do we help our children become more conscious of compulsory consumption?
• What advice do you have for recent college…

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Hi friends! Popping in with some randomness for you today, so let’s do this in list format, shall we?

1) Our 5 year wedding anniversary is tomorrow! WOW. How does time go by so quickly?! Normally Matt and I would have some fun weekend trip/big adventure planned to celebrate, but we’re kind of counting our babymoon (recap 1 + recap 2) from a few weeks ago as our anniversary celebration since we weren’t sure if this would be cutting it too close with travel (I’m 34 weeks today – new pregnancy update coming tomorrow). Hopefully we can enjoy a nice dinner out or something this weekend to celebrate, too. I can’t believe it’s been 5 years – it feels like yesterday in some ways. (If you’re new to the blog and want to read all my wedding-related recaps, you can find them all here: our wedding.) This picture below is one of my favorites from our big day because it’s so fun and candid – it was taken right at the moment when our announcer pronounced our last name wrong, so we were both cracking up about it before entering the dinner tent. <3

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By Shai Plonski

The internal equivalent to oxygen, what we need in order to survive is love… Human relationships exist to produce love as surely as a lack of oxygen will kill us, so will a lack of love.” ~Marianne Williamson, Return to Love: A Reflection on A Course in Miracles

When I was 33 years old, I got dumped after a five-year relationship where we were engaged to be married. I was blindsided by it. It hurt about as badly as anything else I had experienced up till then, except for the day my dad died.

It was a Saturday afternoon at the start of a long weekend, so that gave me exactly three days to ‘get over it’ enough to be able to return to work. I was currently in the middle of leading a Thai yoga massage teacher training program with students who had come from around the world. It’s not as if I could call in sick.

The rest of the weekend was a blur. About the only thing I remember was an inner voice telling me that now, more than ever, my personal practice was key. Meditate, get on my yoga mat, learn from inspiring teachers and remember to breathe.

I showed up that first day back with a heavy and vulnerable heart, but then I did what I had been doing that whole month, not to mention most of the previous s…