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Minimalist Products — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 21:19:44 +0000

Minimalist Brand Directory

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The Minimalist Brand Directory has been created to help you find the best minimalist brands, for whichever category you are searching them for, from sustainable clothing brands to space-saving fitness equipment. The brands to the directory are hand-picked solely by Minimalist Products. By using the navigation below you can go straight to the category most relevant for you.

KITCHENWARE

AeroPress

Are you looking for a coffee maker that doesn´t require electricity, is easy to clean, fits effortlesly into your backpack and enables you to brew a great-tasting cup of coffee in under two minutes? If so, AeroPress could be an excellent choice.

Fellow

The people behind Fellow are a group of coffee lovers, designers and tinkerers. The brand offers a wide variety of products from coffee makers and grinders to kettles and accessories. Fellow has been recognized with multiple awards, including two Red Dot Design Awards.

Le Creuset

Le Creuset has almost a century of experience creating high-quality kitchenware made in France. Perhaps best known for its buy-it-for-life, cast iron pots and pans.

Victorinox

A long running Swiss-based brand, keeping precision, quality and innovation as their cornestones. Born as the creator of world-famous Swiss-Army Knives, today Victorinox also offers cutlery, watches, travel gear and fragrance.

Klean Kanteen

Klean Kanteen was founded as a health and environment conscious alternative to plastic and lined aluminum bottles. Since the original products, the company has widened its offerings to cover ia. lunch boxes and straws.

Hydro Flask

Due to the frustration of having lukewarm water on bottles, Hydro Flask was established. Like Klean Kanteen, Hydro Flask is also highly focused on health and environmental factors, and carries multiple other categories of products.

Vitamix

With a purpose “Liberate and nourish the zest for life”, Vitamix has developed and produced blending solutions, ensuring their performance and longevity. At the same time, this centennial is helping to limit food waste.

Chemex

By successfully blending design and function, this coffee-maker brand has conquered the world by providing pure brew as the coffee only comes in contact with natural materials of glass and the paper in the filter.

Hario

Hario is best known for its heatproof glassware and household items. Direct translation of the company name is “The King of Glass”. What else do you need to know? Perhaps that only Hario has a heatproof glass factory in Japan.

kSafe

Can’t resist cookies or your phone and fail to get work done? kSafe might be the solution for you! Their lineup of time-lock containers provide research-backed method to counter unhealthy cravings and distractions.

ELECTRONICS & ACCESSORIES

Apple

Cupertino-based company known for design, elegance and interoperability of its devices and software.

Anker

Anker provides innovative and reliable accessories for wide category of devices. A go-to brand for many digital nomads.

Balmuda

Balmuda has a desire to create meaningful experiences that bring joy to people through the values of functionality, convenience, exploration, curiosity and precision. Their products are designed and produced entirely in Tokyo. Balmuda´s designs have received multiple renowned awards, from the likes such as iF Design.

Bang & Olufsen

Manufacturer of high-end AV equipment with close to a century of experience and distinguishably elegant Scandinavian aesthetics.

Braun

One of the pinnacles of germaneering that brings order, clarity and simplicity to its appliances. Braun´s produt designs have served as an inspiration to many others, including Apple.

Dyson

With efficiency in its DNA, Dyson has rethought household appliances with also having a strong focus in sustainability aspects.

Genelec

Genelec provides high-quality speakers to audiovisual professionals and home users alike who appreciate pinpoint accurate sound and award-winning, minimalist design. These long-lasting and environmentally friendly speakers are made in Finland.

Grovemade

Grovemade believe workspace should be calm, mindful and peaceful. This echoes in their products that are designed and made in Portland, Oregon. Grovemade´ s versatile product lineup that use a lot of natural materials covers items such as desks, monitor stands, trays and pens.

Framework

Framework´s mission is to empower you with great products that can be easily customized, upgraded and repaired, increasing longevity and freducing e-waste in the process. To open and change components to a Framework laptop you only need a single screwdriver that is included with each of their model.

Light

This company makes phones for going light. Using a Light Phone can help you to take back control and be more intentional in the middle of this hyper-connected world we live in.

Kindle

Fit an entire library of books into Kindle, a compact e-reader that features a long-lasting battery and paper-like, eye friendly display.

Larsen & Eriksen

This Copenhagen-based watch company proves that attention to detail doesn’t have to cost a fortune. Thanks to their direct-to-consumer practice they are able to provide timeless, acclaimed and responsible Danish design with accessible pricing.

Mudita

Mudita is a tech company with a mission to make mobile phones and other devices that put your physical and mental well-being first. Best known for their minimalist and award-winning phone, Mudita Pure.

Projects Watches

Projects Watches are made for creators, by creators. This company considers that art can be brought to everyday life by experiencing it through their timepieces. Projects Watches also strive to take watch design to grounds where it hasn´t been before. Many of their designs are likely to please an eye of a person fond of minimalist design language.

Punkt.

Punkt. is a Swiss-based company that was founded to provide an alternative for those feeling overwhelmed with the modern lifestyle led by advanced technology. Punkt. aims to help its users to adopt good habits and become less distracted. Punkt´s minimalist and timeless products have been featured in many museums, including MoMa in New York.

Skagen

Driving inspiration from the founders´native country of Denmark, Skagen offers slim and minimalist watches. Nowadays their product lineup also includes jewelry. The company is named after the Denmark´s northernmost town.

Roost

The Roost stand was created to drastically increase the ergonomics of laptop users. Made of highly sophisticated and lighweight materials in the USA. Can also be easily folded to bring it where ever the work is done.

The Minimal Company

The Minimal Company are the creators of the Minimal Phone. They can help you to live more, scroll less and own your time, your productivity and your life.

LIFESTYLE

Audo

Audo was born after two renowned Danish design brands, By Lassen and MENU combined forces. Audo not only offer products from its origin companies´ portfolios but also innovate new pieces, taking inspiration from both Danish and global influences while nurturing their ambitions for purposeful, high-quality products with a soft minimalism design language.

Artek

Timeless and eco-friendly design, high quality, made in Finland. These are some of the attributes linked to Artek. This iconic brand´s best known product is the stackable Stool 60 made of birch and designed by Alvar Aalto. The stool has been in production ever since its production started in the 1930s.

Artifox

Dan and Sarah Mirth needed an office desk that was good looking as well as highly functional and efficient so they decided to make one. Soon after they realized they weren´ t the only ones with the need and thus Artifox was born. The company describes their design philosophy as “mindful, clever, subtle, symbiotic and lasting”. The products are locally manufactured in St. Louis, USA.

Ettinger

This luxury brand established in 1934 is still family owned, run by the son of the founder. Ettinger designs and manufactures their products in the UK and uses EU-based suppliers to source their leather for its goods, ranging from wallets to bags and cases and a wide range of accessories. As a great sign of Ettinger´s reputation, the company has been granted a Royal Warrant. This warrant can only be granted after a company has supplied the Royal Household regularly for at least five years.

Expand Furniture

Expand Furniture provides people exceptional furniture that makes their living spaces better. The company was founded based on the idea of producing the best multifunctional furniture for modern homes. Expand Furniture keeps improving and creating new items to their product lineup that currently includes transforming and space-saving beds, tables, sofas, chairs and more. They offer worldwide shipping.

Fritz Hansen

Fritz Hansen, named after its founder, provides timeless, high-quality and minimalist interior design pieces. The brand has collaborated with many renowned designers such as Arne Jacobsen and Poul Kjærholm. Some of Fritz Hansen´s most iconic products include Series 7 and Egg chairs.

Harber London

This brand´s leather products are designed with a goal of never going out of fashion and helping your day to go smoothly. Their obsession is to keep the designs as simple as possible while also ensuring high quality and functionality. Harber London´s product lineup – from wallets to bags to cable organizers and many other categories are handmade in Spain.

HAY

HAY believes that good design is everyone’s right. Since the inception of the company, HAY has collaborated with great designers from around the world and introduced minimalist, versatile and high-quality products that draw inspiration from the world of art, architecture and fashion.

Knoll

Knoll designs and produces furniture to both home and office environments. The brand many minimalist design classics on their portfolio from the likes of desginers such as Eero Saarinen and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. One of Knoll´s most iconic products is the Barcelona chair and ottoman.

Muji

Muji was created to rationalize manufacturing processes to provide simple, affordable products with good quality. To this day the company still carries the same principles with its wide assortment of goods, from furniture to bathroom items.

NOOE

NOOE (abbreviation of Never Odd Or Even) is a love letter to modern work. The company’s office furniture and accessories are made of grade 1 solid wood, space-grade aluminium and premium vegan suede. NOOE was awarded the RED Dot Design Award in 2022 for their Config 101 Desk Organisation Set.

Nordic Knots

Nordic Knots have paired function and aesthetics with Scandinavian sensibility and thoughtfulness. Their rugs and curtains stand the test of time and can help you to create a harmonious living space.

Resource Furniture

Resource Furniture specializes in transforming and space-maximising furniture that tackle many of the common problems in homes. Their products – including wall beds, tables, seating and storage solutions – come with unique functionality, aesthetics, longevity, and minimal environmental impact.

Steelcase

Starting from producing fireproof metal baskets, Steelcase has evolved to become one of the leading providers of professional-grade office furniture that carry a minimalist design language.

Tapio Anttila Collection

An own collection and online store of the internationally awarded Finnish furniture designer Tapio Anttila. Their purpose is to make everyday life more meaningful, beautiful and sustainable. The collection covers thoughtful designs from sofas and chairs to tables, as well as storage and decor.

LastObject

LastObject´s mission is to eliminate single-use items by coming up with reusable alternatives that are also sustainable. Their main products include reusable swabs, tissues and facial pads.

Saddleback Leather

“They´ll fight over it when you´re dead.” Saddleback Leather´s slogan reflects their product lineup: over-engineered leather products from travel bags to wallets and many other, covered with 100 year warranty. The company´s products are handmade in Mexico.

Trayvax

Trayvax started as a company producing minimalist and longlasting wallets but have since widened their offerings to many other products, such as belts and lanyards. Trayvax´s products are designed and made in the US and come with a 65 year warranty.

Yamazaki

Looking for household items that have simplicity, space saving and design in mind? Yamazaki offers a wide variety of them, anywhere from kitchen to bathroom to office.

FITNESS

Flipbelt

Flipbelt provides a simple and discrete way to store the items you need to have with you during an exercise.

SPIBelt

SPIBelt gives the opportunity to carry personal items with you in a bounce-free manner.

PRX Performance

Fitting Fitness Into Life, PRX Performance provide space-saving equipment. Best known for their foldable power racks.

PowerBlock

What started as an observation of dumbbell-cluttered workout spaces realized as PowerBlock, a series of adjustable dumbbells that have stood a test of time, both in commercial and home gym settings.

TRX

Simple and compact, yet very versatile form of training gear, TRX suspension system is one of the most common pieces of gym equipment that you can also get affordably for yourself.

CLOTHING

Able Carry

Able Carry´s mission is to engineer the best everyday backpacks to supercharge your day. With their minimalist backpacks and accessories the company has focused on to provide good fit, organization capabilities and high durability. Every Able Carry backpack comes with a lifetime guarantee.

Aer

The mission of Aer is to make the best travel gear for wherever life takes you. At the core of this San Fransisco-based company´s DNA are simplicity, utility and durability.

Allbirds

From the realization of the absence of merino wool in the footwear industry, Allbirds was born. They are best known for their shoes but nowadays also produce other forms of clothing, in the very same spirit of simplicity, comfort and sustainability.

ALPAKA

ALPAKA´s durable products are minimal and made for urban life but aren’t scared of a bit more outdoorsy travels either. ALPAKA plants a tree for every bag purchased and donates 1% of their revenue to charities.

Asket

This Stockholm-based company exists to provide meaningful essentials with zero compromise, full transparency and lifecycle responsibility. Asket may be just the perfect fit if you want a world with less clutter, less waste and less smoke and mirrors.

BWG

BWG is a celebration of timeless traditions and the enduring elegance of monochrome, designed for men who value classic styles and find comfort in simplicity. Built on the foundation of black, white, and grey, BWG symbolizes more than just fashion — it embodies a philosophy of strength, clarity, and wisdom. By combining timeless design principles with modern needs, the brand inspires men to set new standards of leadership, power, and grace.

Colorful Standard

The focus of Colorful Standard is to create responsibly-made and timeless clothing classics that care for you and the planet. The brand’s sustainable, colorful, uncomplicated and fair-priced garments are designed in Denmark and made in Portugal.

Columbia Sportswear

Passionate about the outdoors, Columbia´s motto, “It´s perfect. Now make it better” guide the company to this day. For the company, the outdoors is not only a playground, but also a place for empowerment and their commitment to protect.

COS

COS is an acronym for “Collection of Style”. The brand blends contemporary and timeless, creating high-quality and mindful wardrobe & accessory collections for both men and women.

Dalgado

This German design studio is obsessed with creating fairly-priced, high-quality, minimalist and timeless accessories. Dalgado´s products are made in the EU with the finest materials sourced around the world.

Darn Tough

These US-made socks are guaranteed for life, for various types of wearers and activities.

Everlane

Everlane is a clothing brand focused on exceptional quality, ethical factories and radical transparency. Especially unique is their way to provide cost breakdown for each of their products so you know exactly what you’re paying for.

Arc´teryx

Arc´teryx is guided by obsessive, precise, intuitive design and production. Further, they put an emphasis on timeless quality and simplcity to provide unrivaled performance.

Fjällräven

This Sweden-based company provides functional, durable and timeless outdoor clothing and equipment. They also have a commitment to make nature more accessible and the utmost respect for the environment.

KOIO

KOIO is a direct-to-consumer brand for handcrafted Italian leather shoes. Every pair of these minimalist and luxury shoes go though the hands of 42 craftspeople in the Florence-based artisan studio. Koio shoes are designed to work for every occasion from formal to casual for both men and women.

Matador

Company with no-compromise travel equipment designed to perform, what ever the conditions. Matador focuses on selecting only the necessary features, eliminating everything else.

North-89

The objective of North-89 is to bring functionality to sneakers. Their products have drawn inspiration from Scandinavian weather conditions and are made to withstand them.

Many of their minimalist designs are water-resistant. The shoes, made of high-quality material, designed in Sweden and manufactured in Portugal in a family-owned factory.

Norse Projects

Created for life — good for all seasons. The brand´s maxim very well summarizes the this of their products. Norse Projects draw inspiration from their Scandinavian roots. Their products reflects nature, and the high-quality materials, craftmanship and minimalist design provide a solid foundation for clothing that is highly functional for different seasons.

Organic Basics

Designed in Copenhagen, made ethically for all on Earth. Organic Basics believes in comfort and sustainability of clothing for all. Their products are made to be both Earth- and people-friendly.

Outlier

Outlier makes high-performance clothing for the wild and city. Their durable and breathable products allow freedom of movement. This New York based brand loves to create new things, but not for the sake of novelty but new functionalities. They strive to create value beyond money, to make good for suppliers, employees & customers and communities worldwide.

Pakt

Pakt provides minimalist travel gear built to last, while striving to become as environmentally and socially responsible as possible. Pakt´s products are shipped in 100% plastic-free packaging.

Patagonia

Founded by a rock climber, outdoor clothing and equipment company Patagonia is guided by their values: building the best product, causing no unnecessary harm, using business to protct nature and developing new ways to do things.

Peak Design

Peak Design provides radical travel and camera gear for the detail-obsessed. Their products are brung to life through crowdfunding which doesn’t only give their customers great access to the design process but also fosters innovation.

Stiksen

Stiksen stands behind an idea that excellent quality make great headwear, not the big logotypes. 100% organic GOTS-certified cotton and recycled materials are used in making company’s long-lasting caps and beanies.

Uniqlo

Simplicity, made even better. The motto of Uniqlo encapsulates well what the company´s products are about, along the terms thoughtful, ingenious, comfortable, functional and long-lasting. Although their garment can be subtle, Uniqlo is hard to not be noticed, thanks to its reputation and over 2000 outlets around the world.

Vessi

Unlike many other 100% waterproof shoes, minimalist Vessis are also breathable. And lightweight. And vegan. According to the brand, their shoes are also made with 30% less water, 600% less energy consumption and 97% less material trim waste than those with conventional practices.

TOOLS

Leatherman

What started from a lack of compact tools on a holiday trip lead to a birth of one of the leading multitool companies. Backed with a 25-year limited warranty.

Benchmade

Benchmade focuses on innovation, customer needs, responsible business ethics and operations in order to provide products of the highest quality. Benchmade provides a limited lifetime warranty on its products.

Zippo

An icon ingrained in American culture. Zippo´s Windproof Lighter comes with a lifetime warranty.

Maglite

First targeted for the public safety sector, rugged and reliable Maglite products have gained widespread popularity. Not only providing solutions from civilians´ EDC to law enforcement, Maglite has also been honoured by design and art museums in Japan and Germany.

iFixit

One of the pioneers of the right-to-repair community, iFixit nowadays also provide their own tool kits which have been warmly welcomed by both professional repair shops and those individuals who just want keep their devices operational, away from stressing the environment.

Park Tool

A go-to brand for the tools useful for repairing and maintaining your bicycle.

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100+ Ways to Save Money

Minimalist Products — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 22:16:58 +0000

100+ Ways to Save Money

This post aims to be the ultimate resource on giving you ways to save your hard-earned money. The tips are divided into the categories below to make it easier to go them through.

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Disclosure: This article does not include investment-, dietary-, or health and exercise advice, and is for informational purposes only. If you need such advice, turn to professionals.

WAYS TO SAVE MONEY ON PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

Use Your Phone as a Hotspot and Cancel Your Internet Subscription (if You Live in a Country with Cheap Unlimited Data Plans)

You may get by by sharing the internet of your phone to your other devices. Negative point to to consider of this is to consider that using the hotspot feature of your phone puts a lot of strain to its battery and can thus shorten its lifespan.

Cut Unnecessary Subscriptions

According to an international survey made by YouGov in 2024, those who subscribe to services, more than half paid for one or more services they don´t use. Check your bank balance and see if you can find any unnecessary fluff that may be costing you potentially hundreds of dollars per year.

Renegotiate the Prices of the Subscriptions You Need

Contact the customer service and ask politely if you could get the service with a reduced price. More bargaining power you have, the better. For example, you can point out that you stop using the service if the price won´t go lower.

You can also mention that you would prefer to switch to a competitor´s service. One other option is to log in to the account settings section of the given service and start the unsubscribe process from there. Many service providers automatically offer you a special discount at this point as a last resort to keep you as a paying customer.

Use a VPN to Get Lower Prices on Services

Websites can give different price for different geographic locations. By using a VPN you can benefit from the lower prices, as long as this doesn´t violate Terms of Service of that given website. NordVPN and Proton VPN are couple of good VPN providers we recommend.

Utilize the Specific Discounts You Are Eligible to (i.a. Student Discounts)

For example, a family subscription for Apple Music is 16.99 dollars per month in the US. Up to six family members can use the service for this price. In comparison, inidividual subscription for Apple Music is 10.99 dollars (pricing as of 21st of July 2024).

Buy Items Second-Hand

Utilize Trial Periods of Products or Rent Them Instead of Buying

Many products and services are offered with a trial periods. Utilize these to find out if you actually find the purchase as useful as you thought. Alternative is to rent a product for a short period to see if it meets your expectations. If not, you probably saved a considerable amount by renting it.

Consider Buying from Direct-to-Consumer Companies

Direct-to-Consumer companies sell their products directly to customer without retailers. This lowers costs and also often trickles down to the prices paid by the customers.

Examples of Direct-to-Consumer companies:

For eyewear: Zenni Optical, Warby Parker

For bicycles: Canyon Bicycles

Buy "For Men" Version of a Product

In many cases, the version of a product that is marketed for men is more affordable than the one for women. Often both versions are close to identical functionally. An example of a product type that tends to be more affordable for the male version are razors.

Look Up The Price Difference Between a One-Time Payment and Subscription

Cut Your Own Hair

Save Thousands by Cutting Your Own Hair

Change to an Old-School Razor

Share a Subscription With Others (if Terms and Services Allow)

Use Rechargeable Batteries

Are Rechargeable Batteries Worth It?

Compare Prices

When Going to a Photoshoot, Ask for Image Files Instead of All-in-One Photo Packages Provided by the Photographer

By ordering the printed images from your photographer you are likely paying more than simply asking the image files from the photographer and then ordering the physical images yourself.

Bundle Same Service Provider´s Services Together

Consider not Buying the Latest Generation Version of a Product

Many products are frequently updated with new versions. This is especially true for tech devices. When the latest and greatest version arrives to the market, the previous version often gets discounted, even though the differences with the latest one may be miniscule.

Learn to DIY

Many things are relatively easy to fix or make. By watching a YouTube video of the subject you can save huge sums. Just don´t do things that require a training and cerfication, put you or other people in danger.

Utilize Automatic Billing Option on Services You Actually Find Valuable

Sell the Things You Do Not Need Anymore

Get money, more space and have less to worry and to maintain? Sounds a pretty good deal!

Buy Products Straight from Suppliers

Flip Products

Try Items and Return Them if You Don´t Need Them

Plan Carefully on What You Need and then Buy on Black Friday

If you plan carefully and have discipline, Black Friday can actually be a great opportunity to save. This requires you to evaluate in advance what products you actually need, follow their prices and then get them on Black Friday if they are on a good discount.

Donate Things You do Not Need Anymore

Use Coupons

Buy High-Quality Products

Buying higher quality products usually come with higher upfront costs but pays back in a longer time period. Below some of the benefits of buying higher quality products:

They last longer
Function better and are more comfortable to use
Are safer
Likely to be produced more ethically
Have a higher resale value

Simplify Your Wardrobe

Get familiar with Courtney Carver´s Project 333. It is one of the most popular minimalist challenges where you only use 33 items from your wardrobe during a three month period.

Buy From a Bankruptcy Sale

Get Service with an Annual or Longer Payment Plan (if It Makes the Plan More Affordable)

Oftentimes service providers offer their services with discount prices if you commit to them for a longer period of time. If you use a service you find useful, check if they offer such discounts.

Consider a True Cost of Ownership for Products

Most things carry more costs than just the initial purchase price. They need space, need to be maintained/cleaned, take up your mental space and often need accompanying products or services.

Rack Up Reward Points

Check experts on the topic for more inspiration, e.g. The Points Guy.

Take Part in a Packing Challenge

There are various versions of packing challenges. Perhaps the best-known is the version popularized by The Minimalists. In this packing party, all belongings are packed to boxes. Then, the challenge participant only unpacks those items from the boxes he or she needs. After three weeks the items that stay in the boxes can be sold, donated or recycled.

Priorise in Decluttering Your Possessions Instead of Getting More Storage Solutions

Use & Appreciate What You Already Have

Maybe now is the perfect time to master the guitar you have had sitting in the corner of your living room for some years? Or pick up that you have had plans to finish for a few years already?

WAYS TO SAVE MONEY ON HEALTH

Adopt a Healthy Diet

Reduce Your Stress

Take Good Care of Your Teeth

Quit or Reduce Alcohol Consumption

Quit or Reduce Smoking

Get Regular Check-Ups at Your Doctor

When diseases or conditions are catched earlier they are more afforabable to cure and/or their advancement can be slowed down more effectively. Thus, it is definitely worthwhile to check your condition regularly.

WAYS TO SAVE MONEY ON GROCERIES

Make Food Yourself

Instead of Buying Carbonated Water from Store, Make Your Own with SodaStream or Similar Product

When making your own carbonated water you not only save money but also reduce plastic waste. Using this method can also reduce your exposure to microplastics.

SodaStream

Don´t go Grocery Shopping Hungry

Create a Shopping List and Stick to It

According to research published in Journal of Consumer Behavior, shoppers who plan individual expenses ahead spend less money.

Stop Buying Ready-Made Coffee

Do your Grocery Shopping at Early or Late Hours

Meal Prep

By preparing your meals in advance for the next days / week save you from those situations when you’re out of food and quickly go grab something sub-optimal (health- and cost-wise) from the store. Meal prepping will also sgives you more time for other activities.

Learn & Resist the Psychological Tricks Used in Grocery Stores

Shop owners prefer you to spend more. One of the tactics they use is to put the more expensive versions of an item to an eye level and more affordable ones to positions that require more effort for the shopper to pick them.

Buy in Bulk - But Only When It Is Cheaper to Do So

Reuse Your Bags

Dilute Your Glass of Juice with Water

If you use a mix of 50% drink – 50% water you will get double the amount to drink and your teeth will also thank you as the acidity goes down which helps you to combat tooth erosion.

Reuse Your Tea Bags

Buy Store-Brand Products

Often times the store-brand product can be the exact same as its more expensive counterpart, just with a different-looking package.

Make Use of Your Freezer

WAYS TO SAVE MONEY ON FINANCES

Pay off Your Debt

Build Your Personal Emergency Fund

The emergency fund is for the case of emergencies: that´s right, not for a nice-to-have holiday trip but unexpected financial emergencies, such as hospital or car repair bills. By having an emergency fund, you don´t have to go into debt in such situations. General recommendation for the size of the emergency fund is around 3 to 6 months of your monthly expenses. You should have your Emergency Fund in a form that is easy to liquidate; either in High-Yield Savings Account (HYSA) or in Money Market Account (MMA).

Automate Your Savings

Also known as “pay yourself first”. Allocate a certain amount of your income to be automatically deposited to your saving / investment account. It is more difficult to spend money you don´t even see.

Refinance Your Loans

It may possible to refinance your loans and get a lower interest rate for them. However, you still need to keep paying off your loan as a priority.

Increase Your Credit Score

Having a higher credit score can have several benefits, such as lower interest rate for your mortgage and lower insurance premiums.

Keep Track of Your Expenses

Utilize Cashback Services

Pay with Cash

Paying with physical bills and coins makes you consider the purchase in a much more tangible way than just seeing numbers on a screen.

Invest Part of Your Savings

Ask for Your Invoices to be Moved to a Later Date

If you’re short on money and have bills to pay, try negotiate with the companies that are billing you. They may provide you an opportunity to postpone the due date of your invoices in w ay that would cost you nothing extra or at least less than what you would pay after the invoices´s due dates have passed.

Don´t Save Your Payment Information on Online Stores / Don´t Use 1 Click Payment Services

By having to input your payment information is one of the ways to increase traction to counter impulse spending.

Only Use Credit on Things That Are Assets

Take Benefit of Your Youth in Investing

Take Part in a No-Spend Challenge

In a no-spend challenge you only spend money for the necessities (food, shelter, medication, hygiene etc.) as long as the you decide the challenge to last. You may be surprised how much extra money you are left with at the end of the challenge. Taking this challenge can greatly help you to rethink your typical expenses. You can use our free printable to keep track of your progress with the challenge.

WAYS TO SAVE MONEY ON HOUSING

Buy an Own House Instead of Renting One (When it Makes Sense to do so)

Get a Roommate on Your Property

Move Further from a Central

Move to a Smaller Home

By downsizing you’ll save on electricity, heating and have to less to clean and upkeep. You’ll also have less temptations to get more stuff to your place as there´s less storage space.

Live in a Tiny House

House Hack

Move to a Country With Lower Cost of Living

Use Less Electricity

Use Less Water

For example, you can learn to take shorter showers and dry your clothes without a drier.

Turn off Devices When You Don´t Use Them

If You're Handy, Buy a House That is not in Perfect Condition and Renovate it Yourself

Change to LED Lighting

This move can save you significant amount on your electricity bill.

Don´t Buy an Insurance for Your Phone

WAYS TO SAVE MONEY ON TRAVEL

Travel Lightly and Save on Baggage Fees

Learn to Maximize Your Travel Points

Get Familiar with Your Travel Destination Beforehand

WAYS TO SAVE MONEY ON TRANSPORTATION

Carpool

Sell Your Car

Buy Your Car Used

On average, cars lose around 20% of their value during the first year of ownership.

WAYS TO SAVE MONEY ON HOBBIES

Create Your Own Home Gym

Buy Seasonal Equipment at the End of the Season or Off-Season

Familiarize Yourself with the Local Library Services

Libraries ain´t just about books anymore. Many of them nowadays also offer i.a. the following items to borrow for free: movies, video games, board games, sports equipment and tools. Often the libraries also offer services you can use to borrow e-books, e-magazines and audio books.

Pick More Affordable Hobbies

Streamline the Equipment on Your Current Hobbies

WAYS TO SAVE MONEY ON STUDIES

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Minimalist Quotes

Minimalist Products — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 00:01:51 +0000

Minimalist Quotes

This post gathers minimalist quotes from people across various disciplines and generations. If you find the list useful, feel free to share it with others.

If you can´t explain it to a six year old, you don´t understand it yourself.

Albert Einstein

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Isaac Newton

Less is more.

Mies van der Rohe

You can do anything, but not everything.

David Allen

Less but better.

Dieter Rams

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

Hans Hofmann

Minimalism is not a lack of something. It´s simply the perfect amount of something.

Nicholas Burroughs

Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein

Pare down to the essence, but do not remove the poetry.

Wabi Sabi

The best way to find out what we really need is to get rid of what we don´t.

Marie Kondo

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Steve Jobs

Focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thing clean to make it simple. But it´s worth in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Steve Jobs

People think focus means saying yes to the thing you´ve got to focus on. But that´s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I am actually as proud of the things we haven´t done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.

Steve Jobs

The purposeful destruction of information is the essence of intelligent work.

Ray Kurzweil

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

Elon Musk

Simplification is one of the most difficult things to do.

Jonathan Ive

True simplicity is about bringing order to complexity.

Jonathan Ive

A beautiful product that doesn´t work very well is ugly.

Jonathan Ive

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

Frédéric Chopin

Our things are like roommates, except we pay their rent.

Fumio Sasaki

For a minimalist, the objective isn´t to reduce, it´s to eliminate distractions so they can focus on the things that are truly important.

Fumio Sasaki

I am a minimalist. I like saying the most with the least.

Bob Newhart

Focus on being productive instead of busy.

Tim Ferriss

Believe it or not, it is not only possible to accomplish more by doing less, it is mandatory. Enter the world of elimination.

Tim Ferriss

Digital minimalism definitely doesn´t reject the innovations of the internet age, but instead rejects the way so many people currently engage with these tools.

Cal Newport

All of humanity´s problems stem from man´s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

Blaise Pascal

90 percent of success is not getting distracted.

Shane Parrish

Simplicity is complex. It´s never simple to keep things simple. Simple solutions require the most advanced thinking.

Richie Norton

If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.

Warren Buffett

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Seneca

The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

Seneca

Life is really simple but we insist on making it complicated.

Confucious

In order to seek one´s own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.

Plato

There is no greatness when there is no simplicity.

Leo Tolstoy

The great artist is the simplifier.

Vincent van Gogh

We all have limited number of ***** to give; pay attention to where and who you give them to.

Mark Manson

Not wanting something is as good as having it.

Naval Ravikant

The simplest things are often the truest.

Richard Bach

Remember that if you don´t prioritize your life, someone else will.

Greg McKeown

Scrolling is the new smoking.

Joshua Fields Millburn

Love people and use things, because the opposite never works.

Joshua Fields Millburn

Make it simple but significant.

Don Draper

The things you own end up owning you.

Tyler Durden

We buy things we don´t need with money we don´t have to impress people we don´t like.

Tyler Durden

You get up to two and a half million dollars. Any ***hole in the world knows what to do: you get a house for the 25 year roof, an indestructible *** economy ****box, you put rest into the system of 3 to 5 % to pay your taxes and that´s your base. That´s your fortress of ******* solitude. That puts you for the rest of your life at a level of **** you. Somebody wants you to do something? **** you. Boss pisses you off? **** you. Own your house, have a couple of bucks in the bank, don´t drink. That´s all I have to say to anybody at any social level.

John Goodman

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

Henry David Thoreau

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Henry David Thoreau

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

Herbert Simon

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

Charles Dudley Warner

Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world.

Oscar Wilde

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

Ernst F. Schumacher

Subtract until it breaks.

Unkown

Addiction to distraction is the death of creative production.

Robin Sharma

Do what you can, with what you've got, where you are.

Squire Bill Widener

Complexity is the enemy of execution.

Tony Robbins

If you want a golden rule that will fit everybody, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.

William Morris

You´ll see I wear only gray or blue suits. I´m trying to pare down decisions. I don´t want to make decisions about what I´m eating or wearing. Because I have too many other decisions to make.

Barack Obama

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