What's the #minsgame and should you play it? 

The #minsgame is a game created by The Minimalists, Joshua Fields-Milburn and Ryan Nicodemus.

The game's aim is to provide you with motivation, accountability and a straightforward method to declutter as many as 695 items from your home in one month.

Bec and Tara share their thoughts on it, and their experiences with doing it (and avoiding doing it, in Bec's case) in this episode.

If you're interested in playing the game yourself, make sure you join our Facebook Community Group to play with us in June.

Show notes:

• The Minimalists

• The 30 Day Minimalism Challenge or #minsgame

• The Minimalists TedX Talk- The Art of Letting Go

• 465 items let go in 30 days

• 496 items let go in 31 day month

• #minsgame used 79,000+ times (as at 10 May 2019)

• Could you think of someone to play with? Maybe have a bet and whoever gets the furthest wins the prize - a coffee or meal out. $20 - whatever works for you.

Upsides:

• Gets people thinking about stuff in a different way.

• Playing with someone- accountability/ competition

• Short-term commitment- big results

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Downsides:

• Regret

• Impulsive letting go

• Letting go of others possessions without their knowledge

• Losing balance in life when focused on finding stuff to purge

• Doesn’t address acquisition

• Deadlines unrealistic- ‘get out of house by midnight’.

• Promotes perfectionism and can be discouraging

Tara’s blog post “Binge Decluttering- Inspired or Illogical”

• Make your own rules if it gets too hard.