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	<description>Everything about less.</description>
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		<title>Income distribution vs. happiness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Americans generally have more spending power now than 50 years ago, across almost all income levels. But the perception is that lower income families are losing ground. Of course, some are, but generally, pretty much all of us can buy more and better stuff than we ever could in the past. In 1909, many things [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theminimalist.net/2009/05/14/income-distribution-vs-happiness/</link>
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		<title>Just in time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Just In Time business concept is like minimalism for manufacturing, but Martha Beck&#8217;s recent article has echoes of minimizing it forward and brings it to a more personal level. I have a hoarding instinct, and I&#8217;ll stand by the idea of keeping a week&#8217;s supply of food and water on hand along with basic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theminimalist.net/2009/05/06/just-in-time/</link>
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		<title>Needs and circumstance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Interesting poll on what people consider necessity vs. luxury (via WorldChanging). Perceived necessities are shrinking in the recession, but:

Finally, there&#8217;s the automobile &#8212; the ultimate survivor. It&#8217;s been around for nearly a century, but in good times or bad, it retains its pride of place at the top of America&#8217;s list of everyday necessities.

I hope [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theminimalist.net/2009/04/29/needs-and-circumstance/</link>
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		<title>Paul Graham on Stuff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A while back Paul Graham realized that stuff is no longer valuable. Just as food used to be very expensive, and thus malnutrition and starvation were real issues, now overeating is by far the bigger danger for most people in America. The same thing has happened with stuff &#8211; it is now so easy to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theminimalist.net/2009/03/06/paul-graham-on-stuff/</link>
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		<title>Thrift = disaster?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend, I read When Consumers Cut Back: A Lesson From Japan in the New York Times. I was hoping it would be about the benefits of thrift, but the article starts off a little differently:
As recession-wary Americans adapt to a new frugality, Japan offers a peek at how thrift can take lasting hold of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theminimalist.net/2009/02/27/thrift-disaster/</link>
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		<title>Minimize it forward</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I might need it someday&#8221; is really a curse for getting rid of stuff. Treehugger has a typically fiddly Lifehacker points to a fiddly way of overcoming the urge to hoard stuff &#8220;just in case,&#8221; but I think their this method would likely result in keeping a mental inventory of what you&#8217;ve sold vs. what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theminimalist.net/2008/09/15/minimize-it-forward/</link>
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		<title>Moving</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every time I&#8217;ve moved, I have taken a huge amount of stuff along &#8211; instead of culling before the move, I&#8217;ve always done it on the other end. I think this is inevitable. Wouldn&#8217;t a move be the perfect time to reduce the stuff in our home? Reasons why it doesn&#8217;t work that way:

An employer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theminimalist.net/2008/07/09/moving/</link>
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		<title>Wow&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[$25 &#8211; $50 million = beer and pretzels
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		<link>http://theminimalist.net/2008/03/20/wow/</link>
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		<title>Recession? TGIAM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lots of headlines are popping up predicting a US or global recession. I don&#8217;t claim to understand economic theory at more than a basic level &#8211; I took a few economics classes in college and manage our family investments, but that&#8217;s about it. We might go into a recession this year (my guess) or we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theminimalist.net/2008/01/23/recession-tgiam/</link>
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		<title>Destruction for fashion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know what store this is, but I can&#8217;t stand egregious waste. Basically, rather than dilute their high-end brand, they destroy old merchandise in full view of customers if it doesn&#8217;t sell. I suppose the intended message is that their stuff is so exclusive that it should be destroyed rather than be seen in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theminimalist.net/2006/03/15/destruction-for-fashion/</link>
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