Amy Revell

And so maybe you're at the shops and you always feel like you're buying containers or you always feel like you're looking for a storage solution, shelving or drawers or whatever the solution is.

You go to Kmart, you go to Ikea, you're trying to find these solutions.

And so you're then investing money.

I mean, the amount of money that people spend on containers is mind boggling.

And it's the homes that are the most cluttered that have the most containers because they think, I know what I'll do.

The way to save the clutter from exploding and a way that I'll manage it is I'll just put it in containers and I'll deal with it later.

They don't deal with it later, but they do end up with containers stacked up all over their house.

And so there's this financial benefit of living with less.

When you live with less, you need less house.

You don't have to heat and cool rooms that you don't even use.

They stay cleaner so you're not having dust and pests and things always coming and dust everywhere, mice hiding away because there's actually nowhere for that stuff to hide.

The financial benefits, right?

So you are spending less money.

You're saving money.

And so a lot of minimalists will talk about one of the primary motivations is that they want to like trouble the world, downsize their house, have the freedom to do whatever they want on the weekends, have the freedom.

For a while there, many of you know, is we paid my dad to be our chef.

Cal and I were both working full time.

As minimalists, there's not a lot of stuff that we spend our money on.

Our kids also choose to be mostly minimalists.

And so we chose to invest in having him support us.