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Why You Should Not Simplify Things
Every day I’m confronted with problems, problems of my own and problems other people have. And as with all problems I like to see them for what they are: challenges and puzzles to be solved. Sometimes problems are much easier to solve than you’d think. Take the classic Gordian Knot, a very complex knot impossible [...]
Continue reading...Collecting and Minimalism are the Same Thing
17 March 2010
Are you a collector of something? A huge collection of stamps, a secret collection of comic books or a coin collection so heavy you can’t carry it all at once. One of my teachers actually has a dice collection. As you can see, he needs two more to make his collection complete. It has to [...]
Continue reading...The 100 Items Challenge revisited, it’s all about your Mindset
23 February 2010
A long time ago I wrote about the 100 items challenge and as you might know it’s one of the things on my “Freedom list 2010″. In a nutshell it’s about getting rid of all your personal possessions save 100 items. Not only does this offer great potential to minimise clutter, it also lets you [...]
Continue reading...Decluttering the Multifunctional Distractions
5 January 2010
Before you read this take a look around… Did you have a quick look around the room, your desk area and perhaps even your desktop? Is it cluttered? Are there things there that you haven’t used in 2009? Things collecting dust that somehow just keep put but have no actual use? Seriously, is there anything [...]
Continue reading...The Four Noble Truths about Money
30 November 2009
The four pillars Money, both a blessing and a curse on this planet. For better or for worse we're stuck with it and it will dominate our lives in one way or the other. Only relatively recently I started learning about money and how to manage it. Now you probably know that there are numerous brilliant blogs about money management and frugality online. They all have the four noble truths about money in common. In this blogpost I'll try and give you the basics of money all in one simple overview. You could see this blogpost as "Money 101". Once you know this stuff money will be your friend.
Continue reading...Ockham’s Razor, the minimalist’s tool of choice
16 October 2009
In English the quote below can with some imagination be interpreted as: “when you have two competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the simpler one is usually the best”. Almost anyone who’s interested in math and/or logic has heard of Ockham’s razor. It’s a principle named after William Ockham (c. 1285–1349) , a [...]
Continue reading...The defective consumer says: Eat your vegetables
2 September 2009
Everywhere you look there are commercials, influencing us and trying to convince us to buy the next best thing out there. Where this used to work on a massive scale it’s now getting more and more personal with even directly addressed ads showing up on your doormat and tons of spam in your mail. Not [...]
Continue reading...Winning the lottery by being frugal
11 August 2009
Yesterday, the lottery in The Netherlands was up to a record breaking amount of money (€27 million) to be won and it was guaranteed to be won by someone. You can imagine the frenzy. People literally bought hundreds of tickets and were already spending the money in their head. You know how that goes. “I [...]
Continue reading...This minimalist’s take on food
29 July 2009
Not to long ago I got a mail from Jean asking me how I handled food and eating. She herself found that “a simple (mostly raw) seasonal consumption of food works best” I have just one guideline I try to follow in all food: Concerning food that I buy/prepare myself. If I can’t tell what’s [...]
Continue reading...If you want to be free, stop choosing
27 July 2009
Every day we make choices in our life, what to drink what to eat, where to go and what to do. But those are not the choice I want to talk about here. I want to have a closer look at those other choices otherwise known as taste or value. As soon as we value [...]
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