Amy Revell

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.

He'd retired.

He was a bit bored.

And so that was a great investment for us.

But we wouldn't have been able to do that if we just had a whole lot of stuff and we were spending our time and our money just buying more and more and more because we wouldn't have that financial freedom.

And that financial freedom can look like paying a little bit more off your mortgage each week rather than wandering around the shops looking for things.

You might save money when you're more intentional around your clothes.

Australians, Americans, the Western world spend so much money on clothes they will not wear, they do not need, they do not like, end up in landfill.

I mean, I could do, I probably will do a couple of episodes about that.

There's a few, if you go back into our back catalog, I'll put some links in the show notes that I've already done around like clothing and textile waste.

But the benefits are you save so much money.

When you've got less stuff, you can find what you need.

So if I'm going to a birthday party and you've got a cupboard that you might have bought some candles or you might have bought different things over the years that you're like, actually, that's on special and it's really lovely.

I can find that.