![]() ![]() Such was the strength of the movement Goodbye Things helped to popularize that you can probably picture its stereotypical depictions: clean white walls, empty floors, gourmet coffee makers, no bookshelves (1 Kindle instead), strategically-placed plants, Instagram photos of beaming minimalists surrounded by what they witheringly refer to as their things: 1 pair of shoes, 2 pairs of pants, 4 shirts (all black), a meditation mat, a treasured coffee mug, and a 2018 MacBook Pro (bearing no stickers, of course). ![]() ![]() The book described the author’s quest for less, his decision to dispense with the vast majority of his possessions and live in a mostly empty apartment. World-famous minimalist Fumio Sasaki’s first book, Goodbye Things: The New Japanese Minimalism came out in 2015 and sold a mountain of copies long before it was translated into English in 2017, whereupon it sold mountains more copies. Hello, Habits: A Minimalist’s Guide to a Better Lifeīy Fumio Sasaki (translated by Eriko Sugita) ![]()
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