The Forgetful Minimalist Gifts

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"I didn't spark joy."

"Try picking up a girl after you've renounced everything."

"I was going to call it 'Empty Plinth', but then I settled on 'Winter's Smile'...I wanted to capture the 'nothingness' of an 'absence of anything'..."

"Not to mention the park view."

"This is all we have available. It has an accordian front door, a shelf, a phone, and a spectacular view."

Not much money, glory, or praise

"It keeps it out of sight when we're not watching it."

Japanese woman in minimalist house reads 'How to Clutter Your Life'

"They lead a simple life - they don't even put gas in their cars."

"There's lots of things in my life I absolutely needed to put in, and now there's lots of things in my life I absolutely need to get out."

I'm organizing the house. Can I help? Do you have any storage bins for stuff we don't use very often? Hold on. I have just the thing! Thanks, mom.

"Hoarder."

"Try not to think of it as a box, but rather as an environmentally neutral, biodegradable, single person unit of accommodation!"

"It's called 'Sold'."

"Trying to unclutter my life by reducing busyness is taking up all my free time!"

'I'm getting rid of a lot of crap as move into the next phase of my life...'

'I love what you've not done with the place.'

'The artist did this one during his 'I've got no idea' - period.'

Life stripped bare

Cool Z enters his minimalist period.

"I don't pretend to be great. I merely know myself to be very, very good."

Less is more.

"Let’s run through that scene again with just the table and the lamp."

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"We're temporarily located in an office park, so it would be best if we came to you."

"It's like a tiny house, but bigger."

'Daddy, why is that man wearing a blank T-shirt?'

"I got my wife a book on decluttering and the first thing to go was me."

"How many capsule wardrobes is this again?"

And do you, Sue, believe this is the best you can do? / It was a simple ceremony. Perhaps a little too simple.

It's nice, but we were hoping for something unfurnished.

"I found another great book about living with less stuff."

I could have tinkered with it forever, but at some point you have to stop and call art finished.

"No student debt, a cappuccino maker-- all I need is a tiny house and I'll be living the retirement dream."