This family is just the best family.

Thank you for this comment. I think that what you say here touches succinctly on the invisible class issues embedded within minimalism. Rich people have been buying more expensive stuff for hundreds of years and there's nothing new about that. Guess what? More expensive boots last longer, so you can brag about how…

I guess it's the "get off the treadmill and start living LIFE" sort of thing that accompanies this stuff. Like, have you seen this short animated film "the story of stuff"? The author makes a really great point about the amount of trash we put out as a society but also there's this message of "you work really hard…

Congrats, congrats! I am sort of a miser so I would probably sack away about 1/2 of it in a mutual fund with some stock options like via vanguard or something, but I would definitely use the other half to go on a really awesome vacation to Prague or something.

!!!!!!!!!! *dies of cuteness*

Um, that's adorable. Was your bunny like, "yup, living the life"?

YUP. This this this.

Do you remember that white guy who decided to be homeless for a little while and then wrote a book about bootstrappin'?

OOOH those people. They don't own a TV but they have smart phones and computers and still consume all the media and spend 100 hours on the internet per week bragging about their minimalism.

Thank you for saying everything I think about when I see articles on tiny houses. Home ownership, even of the $16K variety, is waaaay out of our price range, and we'd have nowhere to park our tiny house anyway! We can't just shower at the Y because we can't afford a gym membership.

Just to be clear, when you say sex as a weapon do you mean that women are hitting men with their breasts? That seems painful.

San Francisco is so sneaky with its fog and chilliness and surprise sunburns!

WTF with all the nitpicking in the comments. Like, well, SHOULD we be outraged, I mean, did they ask for it by being slutty or somehow too loud? Seriously WTF. This is outrageous, fills me with rage, and we should all be appalled when our fellow humans are violated regardless of what they were wearing when it…

Aww, I thought SMG was being very cute there! Then again, I have never had a baby.

What usually isn't discussed is that, regardless of whether jobs actually require a degree, it is unlikely that you will be hired without one. People with baccalaureate degrees are just perceived to be smarter and of a higher social class by employers. I had to go back to school to get to the point where I could…

Nope, white and white-identifying men can shoot up the place basically every day and the only thing that will start a serious conversation on gun control is, as FlowbeeBryant pointed out in this thread, armed black men. I would go so far as to say that said armed black men need to be not conveniently killing other…

I blame Andrew Jackson for most things.

I want to star this comment so many more times than I am able to. Well done.

And gun ownership gave him the power to plot and enact his fantasy of murdering people. So...it is about guns.