Indulgently Minimal

It's 2024 and we're back! After a holiday period of travel and indulgence, expanding our horizons and waistlines, we return to podcasting once more. Join us for the download on our travels and a relaxed chat to begin our new year's podcasting journey. Welcome Back Blobcast! We've missed you.

As we approach the end of 2023 we're taking the opportunity to reflect on one year of Indulgently Minimal, our successes and changes, as well as looking forwards towards 2024 and what we hope year two of the podcast will bring. Join us this week as discuss all this, and more, while we say goodbye to the year 2023. www.indulgentlyminimal.com Instagram:  @indulgentlyminimal Mastadon:  @ind...

'Tis the season and so we're all getting together for our 'office' Christmas party, and you're all invited! Join us this week as we share presents and a pot luck meal, discussing some of the best and worst parts of the year, with a few jokes and recommdations along the way. www.indulgentlyminimal.com Instagram:  @indulgentlyminimal Mastadon:  @indulgentlyminimal Email:  indulgentlym...

Why join a book club when you can have a book flood! Join us this week as we discuss all things book; with thoughts and strategies to get reading again as well as some recommendations to either get into or get back in certain genres as well as reading in general. Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ Librivox: https://librivox.org/ Answers in Progress - Why you stopped reading: https://you...

There are as many opinions on this topic as there are pronunciations, but we're once again throwing caution and phonetics to the wind to get Hygge with it. Join us this week as we discuss this cosiest of Scandinavian philosophies to see what we can take with us into the winter months. www.indulgentlyminimal.com Instagram:  @indulgentlyminimal Mastadon:  @indulgentlyminimal Email:  i...

The gifting season is truly upon us, escaping its tinsel bonds for another year. Join us this week as we discuss how we approach gifting for those most important in our lives and how we can minimise both the anxiety of choosing as well as minimising our own avarice gremlins, and instead indulge in the best parts of the festive season. www.indulgentlyminimal.com Instagram:  @indulgentlyminimal...

As we reach the end of the year a new challenger approaches, what feels like the final boss fight to everything we have been talking about until now: Black Friday. Join us this week as we discuss how we are each approaching this time of flash sales and discounts with all it's tricks and temptations to indulge... www.indulgentlyminimal.com Instagram:  @indulgentlyminimal Mastadon:  @indul...

Spooky season maybe well behind us but like all the best horror flicks there is a post-credits scene, a moment when the final monster reminds us it is still out there. One creature still haunts us: the backlog! Join us this week as we discuss how the ever present list of uncompleted media can taunt us, an unfilled promise to ourself, and how we may tame this final beast. www.indulgentlyminimal.com...

You've picked up the hobby, bought the shiny new toy, and now all that seems ahead of you is the pain and suffering of not being immediately brilliant. Join us this week as we discuss our thoughts and strategies for tackling the difficult period between finding a new interest and gaining the skills to properly enjoy it. www.indulgentlyminimal.com Instagram:  @indulgentlyminimal Mastadon:&nbsp...

When is it the right time to dip our toes into a new hobby or interest, and when should we cast all caution aside and dive in wallet first? Join us this week as we discuss how we temper our more indulgent impulses to always get the best, even when simply checking out a new hobby. www.indulgentlyminimal.com Instagram:  @indulgentlyminimal Mastadon:  @indulgentlyminimal Email:  indulg...

Welcome to our first 'Spooktacular' episode, so to celebrate we are doing our IMCU or "Monsters of the Indulgently Minimal Cinematic Universe"! See what spooks, creeps, or just downright frightens us as we discuss the 'monsters' that haunt, hunt, and horrify... Poltergeist song: https://youtu.be/TEPxGcRqUts?feature=shared Godzilla 2001: https://youtu.be/lD7IHCBWx3g?feature=shared www.indulgentlymi...

With cosy season truly upon us we thought we would take the chance to slow down for a moment and reflect on the progress we've made so far. Join us this week as we discuss apartments, chairs, jumpers, and various spiced beverages, as well as how we approach the colder months with the positivity of cosy lighting and a warm hoodie. www.indulgentlyminimal.com Instagram:  @indulgentlyminimal Mast...

“We’ll go down in history as the first society that wouldn't save itself because it wasn't cost effective.” Kurt Vonnegut Following on from our conversation on right to repair and planned obsolescence we now move onto the inevitable consequence: waste. Join us as we discuss disposable culture, green-guilt, and how we can approach the problem with a variety of emotions. www.indulgentlyminimal.com I...

Why buy new when you can make do and mend? Well when you're either not allowed to or are otherwise forced to upgrade when your device is made obselete intentionally. Join us this week as we discuss right to repair, planned obselence, and all the other gremlins that get in the way of getting the most out of things. www.indulgentlyminimal.com Instagram:  @indulgentlyminimal Email:  indulge...

With Techtember in full swing we've been given a chance to put everything we've learned into practice, so how did we do? Join us this week as we follow up on the release of the new iPhones, an indulgence deferred, and a surprise impulse buy that may yet fit into our budding minimalist ideas. www.indulgentlyminimal.com Instagram:  @indulgentlyminimal Email:  indulgentlyminimal@gmail.com K...

In these troubling times of change, strife, and iPhone releases we often forget to take a step back and have just a moment to slow down. This week we are discussing whether that very concept, slowing down, could be the solution to both our own problems and the larger issues that trouble us. Join us as we chat about making our tech last, robots writing poetry, nostalgic ear-worms, as well as trains...

Not all of the media we consume, chosen or otherwise, is good for us; and this is often at it's worst when dealing with modern advertising. The mechanisms of some types of advertising can actively harm us, working on our insecurities or chipping away at our self-confidence in order to better sell us things we do not need. Join us this week as we discuss advertising, vacuuming our lawns, and fishin...

Is this episode a one-off or will does this topic serve multiple purposes? Join us this week as we discuss single use devices, how this concept can be applied to wider ideas, and whether indulging in the 'perfect' solution can be the better option or if minimising is the way to go. Neither sickness nor missing rice cookers can slow us down! www.indulgentlyminimal.com Instagram:  @indulgentlym...

Back from our summer break we hit the ground (literally) running and talk about indulging where it matters, primarily on those things that separate us from the ground and how minimising here can not only be a false economy, but also harmful. Join us as we discuss products, posture, and poise; and don't worry, that sound you hear at the 20:30 mark is simply the sound of many of our listeners (and u...

With our look at the 'situation' over, we head into the summer break with a nice, relaxed blobcast. Join us as we discuss moving homes, home improvement, and how we're trying to implement the lessons learned so far into these changes. This episode will be followed by a one week break, so do check back in two week's time for our next episodes. www.indulgentlyminimal.com Instagram:  @indulgentl...

This week we finish our look at the current 'situation' on the internet, taking the opportunity after disconnecting to reflect on the internet that was and what we might want from what may come next. Join us as we discuss the website formally known as twitter, reconnecting with old hobbies, as well as discovering new moss-based hobbies. Ars Technica Article, Accidentally Renaissance https://arstec...

Following on from last weeks episode we are talking about one of the main things we can do in reaction to the loss of a service or app: disengaging or walking away and giving yourself time and space to process the change. Join us this week as we discuss how we've gone about doing this ourselves, the risks of a 'rebound' service, and what things might look like on the other side. www.indulgentlymin...

These are strange times for those of us who spend our time online, with many of the major platforms that we have become used to or even to rely on now seeming to change in unwanted and unpleasant ways. Join us this week as we discuss these changes, the anxiety and sense of loss it has left us with, and what we might do about it. This episode mentions the following articles: Cory Doctorow on how in...

After a couple of heavy topics we thought we'd sit back for this one and relax with a nice cup of coffee (or tea!) Join us this week as we chat about our favourite beverage, how it's the quintessentially indulgently minimal drink, and just generally about how much we love coffee (and tea!)

We have talked a lot about self-reflection in this series, but do we have the tools to do so constructively? Join us this week as we talk mindfulness, self-care, and how we can build up our ability to ask ourselves questions and listen to the answer. www.indulgentlyminimal.com Instagram:  @indulgentlyminimal Email:  indulgentlyminimal@gmail.com