The Minimalists

Minimalism is the thing that gets us past the things so we can make room for life’s important things—which actually aren’t things at all.

For us, it all started with a lingering discontent. A few years ago, while approaching age 30, we had achieved everything that was supposed to make us happy: great six-figure jobs, nice cars, big houses with more bedrooms than inhabitants, pointless masses of toys, scads of superfluous stuff.