Clutterfree with Kids Quotes

“Owning less is better than organizing more.”
― Joshua Becker, Clutterfree with Kids

“Don't just declutter, de-own.”
― Joshua Becker, Clutterfree with Kids

“There is more joy to be found in owning less than can ever be found in organizing more.”
― Joshua Becker, Clutterfree with Kids: Change your thinking. Discover new habits. Free your home.

“Overscheduled children lose the space to simply be with themselves and learn the art of being alone. In our noisy, busy world, the importance of developing the life skill of solitude, meditation, and quietly being with oneself can not be overstated.”
― Joshua Becker, Clutterfree with Kids: Change your thinking. Discover new habits. Free your home.

“Minimalism is the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of everything that distracts from it. It is a highly personal journey that forces us to identify and articulate our highest values. Because of that, it is always going to be practiced differently by each individual.”
― Joshua Becker, Clutterfree with Kids: Change your thinking. Discover new habits. Free your home.

“I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.” —Leo Rosten”
― Joshua Becker, Clutterfree with Kids: Change your thinking. Discover new habits. Free your home.

“Adopt a traveler’s mentality. When we travel, we take only what we need for the journey. As a result, we feel lighter, freer, more flexible. Adopting a traveler’s mindset for life provides the same benefit—not just for a weeklong vacation, but in everything we do. Adopt a mindset that seeks to carry only what you need for the journey.”
― Joshua Becker, Clutterfree with Kids: Change your thinking. Discover new habits. Free your home.

“I have not met a single minimalist who denies their child the privilege of owning toys. I have met many who limit the number of toys their children own because teaching the value of boundaries allows them to flourish. And that is the very opposite of cruelty.”
― Joshua Becker, Clutterfree with Kids: Change your thinking. Discover new habits. Free your home.

“To stop letting advertisers control our lives, we must be mentally prepared to counter their assault.”
― Joshua Becker, Clutterfree with Kids: Change your thinking. Discover new habits. Free your home.

“Sleep deprived new parents are an easy target for marketers.”
― Joshua Becker, Clutterfree with Kids: Change your thinking. Discover new habits. Free your home.

“Replace “Do I want this?” with “Do I need this?” And help your son or daughter ask the same question. It’s one of the most important lessons they will ever learn.”
― Joshua Becker, Clutterfree with Kids: Change your thinking. Discover new habits. Free your home.

“Not everything your child creates is a masterpiece. Not everything they create needs to be displayed and/or stored. Keep the best. And then, challenge them to create even more of their very best.”
― Joshua Becker, Clutterfree with Kids: Change your thinking. Discover new habits. Free your home.

“At its core, minimalism is the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of everything that distracts us from”
― Joshua Becker, Clutterfree with Kids: Change your thinking. Discover new habits. Free your home.

“Living life is indeed far more enjoyable than managing and organizing stuff!”
― Joshua Becker, Clutterfree with Kids: Change your thinking. Discover new habits. Free your home.

“Life would be better lived if there was less stuff to manage and organize and clean.”
― Joshua Becker, Clutterfree with Kids: Change your thinking. Discover new habits. Free your home.

“The rules for parents are but three... love, limit, and let them be." —Elaine M. Ward”
― Joshua Becker, Clutterfree with Kids: Change your thinking. Discover new habits. Free your home.

“Teach your kids to reject blind conformity. Because when they do, rarely will they discover their heart desires more money, possessions, fame, or power. It will usually ask for something far more countercultural than those.”
― Joshua Becker, Clutterfree with Kids: Change your thinking. Discover new habits. Free your home.

“We have too quickly bought into the lie that we’ll be happier with more—and as a result, too often miss the joy that comes from owning less.”
― Joshua Becker, Clutterfree with Kids

“Minimalism is countercultural. We live in a world that idolizes celebrities. They are photographed for magazines, interviewed on the radio, and recorded for television. Their lives are held up as the gold standard and are envied by many. People who live minimalist lives are not championed by the media in the same way. They don't fit into the consumerist culture promoted by the corporations and politicians. Yet, they live a life that is attractive and inviting. While most people are chasing after success, glamour, and fame, minimalism calls out to us with a smaller, quieter, calmer voice. It invites us to slow down, consume less, but enjoy more. And when we meet someone living a simplified life we often recognize we have the chasing the wrong things all along.”
― Joshua Becker, Clutterfree with Kids

“Minimalism is freedom from the passion to possess. Modern society has bought into the lie that the good life is found in accumulating things--in possessing as much as possible. They believe more is always better and have inadvertently subscribed tot he idea that happiness can be purchased at a department store. But they are wrong. Minimalist brings freedom from the all-consuming passion to possess. It steps off the treadmill of consumerism and dares to seek happiness elsewhere. It values freedom do disengage. It seeks to remove the frivolous and keep the significant. And in doing so, it values the intentional endeavors that add value to life.”
― Joshua Becker, Clutterfree with Kids

“Strive to live a life worth copying. Live with character, integrity, and morality. Your life should look the same in private as it does in public. While no one is perfect, begin striving for a life of integrity. It will be noticed by your kids and will shape them for years to come.”
― Joshua Becker, Clutterfree with Kids: Change your thinking. Discover new habits. Free your home.

“You are never too young to start thinking about your legacy. How do you want people to remember you? And what do you really want to accomplish before you die?”
― Joshua Becker, Clutterfree with Kids: Change your thinking. Discover new habits. Free your home.

“David Allen said it best, “You can do anything. But you can’t do everything.”
― Joshua Becker, Clutterfree with Kids: Change your thinking. Discover new habits. Free your home.

“countless truths I desire to pass on to my children: being content with less is among the most important.”
― Joshua Becker, Clutterfree with Kids: Change your thinking. Discover new habits. Free your home.

“minimalism is the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of everything that distracts us from it.”
― Joshua Becker, Clutterfree with Kids: Change your thinking. Discover new habits. Free your home.

“Wanting less is a better blessing than having more.”
― Joshua Becker, Clutterfree with Kids: Change your thinking. Discover new habits. Free your home.

“Limiting your child’s screen input will have a positive impact on your journey to clutterfree (most of those advertisements are brainwashing us anyway).”
― Joshua Becker, Clutterfree with Kids: Change your thinking. Discover new habits. Free your home.

“Minimalism is the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of everything that distracts from it.”
― Joshua Becker, Clutterfree with Kids: Change your thinking. Discover new habits. Free your home.

“Removing possessions begins to turn back our desire for more as we find freedom, happiness, and abundance in owning less. And”
― Joshua Becker, Clutterfree with Kids: Change your thinking. Discover new habits. Free your home.

“There may be times when competition is appropriate, but life is not one of them. We have all been thrown together at this exact moment on this planet. And the sooner we stop competing against others to "win," the faster we can start working together to figure it out. The first and most important step in overcoming the habit of competition is to routinely appreciate and compliment the contribution of others.”
― Joshua Becker, Clutterfree with Kids