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Today we're going to be talking about
how boring minimalism is.
So unexciting!
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This is the stereotype of minimalists,
is that this (beep) is boring.
It's boring. It's unexciting.
Everybody's stuff is bland, white walls,
everything like that.
Boring, dull, uninteresting. Blah!
Well, guess what? It doesn't have to be.
The only reason that you see a lot
of the same stuff is 'cause people are not
creating their own form of minimalism,
in making what they want to
make as their minimalist life.
We see the minimalist videos, you're like,
"I want to do that!" So you do that.
And then you forget, but it's gotta be me!
It's gotta be my stuff!
It's gotta be what I want.
It's gotta be the special things
that I want in my life.
What do I do that's different
than everybody else?
My house should look
different than everybody else.
And I think that's exactly the path that
you head down when you first
start doing minimalism,
is you emulate the people that you're
interested in, and you want to be like.
You start doing that.
And then as you get
into it, you figure out
the tools and the items
that better suit your
lifestyle, than suit their
lifestyle, they suit yours.
And you change that.
And it doesn't have to be boring.
None of this has to be
boring. I mean, look at me.
I was like, this suits me.
Having colored hair suits me.
What else suits me? Traveling suits me.
So because we were minimalist,
we moved to Hawaii for
a short period of time.
We didn't care for it,
and then we came back.
And because we were
minimalist, that was easy.
It's not like, "Well, we
uprooted our whole life,
and we brought all of our stuff here,
and we have so much stuff that
we shipped all this stuff
and it cost a fortune
and this and that, that
we couldn't come back."
No. We had the freedom to do
what we wanted when we wanted.
That's amazing. Something money can't buy.
And being minimalist doesn't mean you
have to have nothing on the walls.
You can have nice things on the walls,
just pick and choose.
It's just about keeping everything
that you have around you to be inspiring,
makes you happy, joyous, or
benefits your life in some way.
Instead of just putting
every single picture
from your childhood up on the wall.
Having to, I think the wardrobe
become, kind of boring.
People think, "Oh, minimalists only wear
very boring things".
And for some result of that,
it's just because it's easier,
because we don't wanna
have to think about things.
Don't have to think about clothing
because clothing is just there,
it's not a massive part of our day.
But I will show you some of my clothes
to show you just because you're minimalist
doesn't mean you have to dress boring.
These are my pajama pants.
Sometimes I wear these out too.
And they also double as like a halter top.
I don't know what that'd be called.
A pair of my shorts, black and white,
but, you know, interesting.
Tee shirt. They can have
pretty designs on them.
Tank top. I'm sure you've
seen a lot of these clothes.
Hat, for when you're
having a bad hair day.
Shirt.
And then, yeah.
Some of my other stuff is
a little bit more boring.
Just because, you have some of those,
you know, very exciting accent pieces,
and then you have some of the boring stuff
like the pants, that just fit with
whatever top you wanna wear.
So we're just simplifying the process.
And because everything I have makes me
really happy so it doesn't matter.
If wearing a black or
white tee shirt around
all the time makes you happy, who cares
if it looks boring to somebody else?
Their not living your life.
And a house that's not filled with
a whole bunch of clutter
and like little interesting
little things to give it
this feel, and that stuff.
If you look at mansions, where rich people
have these expansive spaces and they pay
these designers tons of money,
a lot of the ones that are very nice
only have a few pieces in those rooms
because it like makes a statement.
So that's more of what you're going for.
You wouldn't say rich
people are minimalists,
because they have tons
of stuff, but in a way,
a lot of the decorating kind of is.
So if anybody wants to
tell you that something
is boring and they're not
actually that something,
so if they wanna tell you minimalism
is boring and they're not a minimalist,
they don't know (beep) because they
ain't a minimalist and they haven't lived
that life and they don't know.
It's just like you would assume what being
a rock star is exactly like.
You don't know (beep) unless
you're an actual rock star.
Or when all the CSI:
Crime Scene Investigations
came out everyone was like "Oh, being a
forensic lab tech would be so cool!"
And then you see some of
them, and their job is
not as cool as what we make it out to be.
It's all perception.
You don't know unless you are it and
you've done it, you've
lived it, you've been it.
If that's your biggest thing is,
that's why you don't
wanna be a minimalist,
you are really cheating yourself out of
a lifestyle that's going to afford you
a lot more experiences than just stuff.
And it's your own fault
for being so close-minded.
Okay, I hope that clears up any of the
misconceptions about
minimalism being boring
because it definitely isn't.
Minimalism is whatever
you wanna make it to be.
And if you are the minimalists who are
living that life, I
guarantee you if you have
blank walls, whatnot,
you're not focused on
how plain everything looks.
You're focused on what you are doing.
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Alright. Thank you all for watching.
I'm Jera Sky. And I gotta go.
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