{"id":33965,"date":"2019-01-18T06:00:10","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=33965"},"modified":"2019-01-07T09:37:12","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T15:37:12","slug":"the-minimalist-home-a-room-by-room-guide-to-a-decluttered-refocused-life-by-joshua-becker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-minimalist-home-a-room-by-room-guide-to-a-decluttered-refocused-life-by-joshua-becker\/","title":{"rendered":"The Minimalist Home : a Room-by-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life by Joshua Becker"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>With the New Year, it seems like everyone is making a resolution.\u00a0 One popular resolution is to get rid of the many possessions that you no longer use, which many believe will lead you to fill your home and life with items that are meaningful to you.\u00a0 Popular blogger Joshua Becker\u2019s<\/a> new book, The Minimalist Home<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, is a guide to only filling your home with things that create a simpler life.\u00a0 The author guides you from room to room within your home, helping you to decide what to keep and what to discard.\u00a0 He addresses not only the easy stuff \u2013 the chair that is being used as storage in the corner \u2013 but even the most difficult things to part with\u00a0 \u00a0– the items that have sentimental value.\u00a0 He speaks as to why so many Americans have so much stuff and how accumulating items begins in the first place.\u00a0 His advice is practical, straightforward and helps with the tough questions that are bound to arise when discarding possessions.<\/p>\n

One of the beneficial parts of the book is how the author came to be a minimalist by sharing his story.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Before Becker discovered minimalism, he was very similar to many others before their journey of owning less.\u00a0 \u00a0A casual conversation with a neighbor led him to question why he owned so many items when it was distracting him from what really mattered in life.\u00a0 In his case, this was spending quality time with his wife and son and enjoying their time together.\u00a0 After converting to minimalism, he boasts that he and his family were able to be more generous with their time and live a simpler life, surrounding themselves with things they use and truly enjoy.<\/p>\n

The author\u2019s main takeaway is that the reader can create their own journey of minimalism, making it unique to them.\u00a0 Becker’s book supplies the framework to help readers make the journey.\u00a0 \u00a0Even if you do not decide to get rid of nearly everything you own, The Minimalist Home<\/em><\/strong> will make you think more about how you view the objects you possess in your home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the New Year, it seems like everyone is making a resolution.\u00a0 One popular resolution is to get rid of the many possessions that you no longer use, which many believe will lead you to fill your home and life with items that are meaningful to you.\u00a0 Popular blogger Joshua[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[4826,4823,4824,534,3655,4825,4822],"class_list":["post-33965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-news-you-can-use","tag-accumulate","tag-discard","tag-fulfilling-life","tag-home","tag-minimalism","tag-possessions","tag-simple-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-8PP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33965"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33994,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33965\/revisions\/33994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}