Minimalism for Families

Practical Minimalist Living Strategies to Simplify Your Home and Life

By: Zoë Kim

Narrated by: Erin Moon

Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins

Publisher's summary

"Zoë Kim has written a book on minimalism for families that is practical, encouraging, and motivating. And I’m glad she did - we need more guidance like this in the world today." (Joshua Becker, founder of Becoming Minimalist)

For busy families, organization can feel worlds away - but a tidy home is closer than you think. Whether you’re looking to create more time, space, energy, or togetherness, Minimalism for Families gives you the tools you need to conquer chaos and do more with less. Designed specifically with hectic households in mind, Minimalism for Families will show you exactly how to use minimalism to reduce clutter in every room of your house - and how to keep it that way.   

An introduction to minimalism covers essential information including what minimalism is, its lifestyle benefits, and how to adopt and integrate the mindset into your life. Room-by-room strategies provides practical plans for decluttering every room including living areas, kitchens, bedrooms, home offices, bathrooms, basements, attics, and other spaces. Tips for a total family approach will get your family excited about minimalism, plus approaches for addressing any resistance to minimalism practices  

Realistic advice from Zoë Kim, author of the popular minimalism blog The Minimalist Plate, offers guidance and support based on her continued experience of incorporating the principles of minimalism into her family life. 

With Minimalism for Families you’ll find everything you need to begin incorporating the principles of minimalism today.  

©2017 Zoë Kim (P)2019 Audible, Inc.

Those with families

Best minimalism book I’ve read discussing families and children! Easy to follow and offers ideas on how to become more minimalist with a family.

Thank your things for the purpose for which they served you and allow them to move on

Or something like that. Haha. I really enjoyed this listen. It was a great merriment between practicality, science and storytelling. I didn’t agree with everything but the author continuously emphasized do what works for you and constantly gave alternatives. Overall I felt like it gave some great tangibles such as What do you want to keep? instead of what do you want to give away? And the concept of the cost of things being the price of the time and enjoyment they take from you. Ill be referencing again and using these guidelines to better my family. To minimalism!

Great book, robot narrator

Was really excited about this book since it’s specifically for families but the narrator, my goodness, was really dull and sounded very robotic for some reason 🥴

Great support for newbies to minimalism!

This was a great motivator to start my minimalism journey. The narrative is broken into easy to understand sections that you can read through or stop and start to declutter along the way. Plus the narration is very calming!

Fantastic Short Listen!

I loved how fast I was able to get through this book! I loved all of the tips and trips and how it breaks everything down by category

Wonderful Read!

Full of information on how to live with less and love it! I would highly recommend to anyone looking to declutter a family home. It has useful information for those looking to declutter a single home as well.

boring and redundant no new information

boring and redundant. no new information or methods. Waste of time and energy. seek out other books with better methods.

Family friendly

This book is great if you have a family, or not. I kids and a hubby that isn’t that much into minimalism , so almost every minimalist idea wasn’t so “family friendly” this one teaches you how to deal with small kids and teens! And how to approach your not so minimalist partner. Recommend it

Very practical!

The book is very practical and it is easy to understand. The narrator’s performance is good, too!

The book we all need in our life

This is a great book. Full of easily applicable tips but most of all a depth understanding of why everyone needs to find their own way to minimalist.

Inspiring and motivating with plenty of common sense

I really enjoyed this. It felt much more realistic than some I have read or listened to before. It is aimed at families so there were parts that felt really relevant to me such as how to manage toys or birthday parties. I liked the focus on how a more minimalist lifestyle can free up time and focus for what you really want to do (ie. Less time washing, looking for things, maintaining, tidying and more time connecting with your family). It’s definitely inspired me to keep pressing on with decluttering.