-[man 1] Stuff. -[woman] Stuff.
[man 2] The accumulation of stuff.
Stuff is contributing to our discontent in so many different ways.
[man 2] We never really stop to question, "What is essential? What is necessary?
How much of the stuff is actually adding any value to my life?"
[man 3] We have the opportunity to have so much.
Anything you can think of, you can get on your doorstep. Now within 24 hours.
That's almost like magic.
[man 2] What if you removed one material possession from your life
each day for a month? What would happen?
[man 3] I think we should be allowed to say,
"I thought this is the life I wanted, but it's not, so I'm gonna start over."
[man 2] Our memories are not in our things.
Our memories are inside us.
[man 1] Both of us grew up poor.
The front door here.
[man 1] We really never had enough.
I tried to fill that void the same way many people do.
Chasing the American dream, it cost me so much more than money.
[man 2] I might have been living the American dream,
but it wasn't my dream.
Minimalism changed my life.
It's given me the opportunity to be that person
that I used to just talk about being.
This deep knowing that all I was searching for, I already had it.
Friends and family have acknowledged a profound change in me.
[man 3] The reason the message of minimalism is so powerful
is because we're bingeing on all the wrong things
and dying of hunger for the things that really matter.