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The problem I had with /r/minimalism is that it's more focused on the aesthetic movement rather than the lifestyle movement. A 4,000sf house with sparse furnitu
by imgabe 10y ago
The problem I had with /r/minimalism is that it's more focused on the aesthetic movement rather than the lifestyle movement. A 4,000sf house with sparse furniture and clean straight lines is minimalist in an aesthetic sense, but not really in the sense of owning only exactly what you need to do what you want and no more. The two meanings of minimalism seem to create a lot confusion and conflict about whether a given thing is "minimalist".
- huhtenberg 10y ago> not really in the sense of owning only exactly what you need to do what you want and no more It's one and the same really. Once you have a bit more money the pragmatic live-in-a-shoebox minimalism tends to transform into the "aesthetic" variety - you still own a bare minimum that makes you happy, but you can now afford a better quality of the same. Be it a larger place or a more expensive pair of jeans.
- icebraining 10y agoBut a larger place is by definition not the bare minimum - you have more square footage than you need.
- huhtenberg 10y agoFor bare minimum you can sleep on a park bench :) "Need" is subjective and the rest follows from there.