Minimalism: Does living with less stuff make us happier?

A thought-provoking film explores the idea of how ridding ourselves of excess belongings brings freedom and happiness

Authors and proponents of the minimalist lifestyle Josh Fields Milburn and Ryan Nicodemus.

Scouring Netflix — in vain, as it turned out — for the long-promised second series with Japanese declutterer-in-chief Marie Kondo, my search threw up a perfectly acceptable alternative, and one irresistible to an extreme tidy-upper like me: The Minimalists: Less Is Now.

The premise of this documentary film is how our ongoing accumulation of stuff in the pursuit of happiness is actually making us more discontent and adding to our stress.