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My 97 Things (Or How I Moved Across The Country With Just 3 Bags)

February 6, 2014 By Joel Runyon 54 Comments

My 97 Things I've wanted to count and document all of my things for some time now. I remember reading Colin's site almost four years ago and seeing his All 72 Things I Own post and thinking, "I want to do that at some point." A few days ago I packed my entire life into about six bags. Since then, I've pared it down even further and I now have exactly 97 things. This is what it looks like when all my bags are packed. Minimalism Goals On the ...

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Filed Under: The Impossible List Tagged With: Minimalism

Vibrams Five Fingers Review Part 1

June 15, 2010 By Joel Runyon 20 Comments

This is 1st part of a 2 part series where I review my Vibram Five Fingers Shoes I bought last month. You can read the second part of the review here. *** photo credit: Richard Monteverde A few weeks back I took a plunge and got a pair of Vibrams Five Finger running shoes. After using them for a few weeks, I finally feel like I've run enough in them to give a review of my experiences with them so I decided I might as well make it a video ...

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Filed Under: Fitness, Hacks Tagged With: Barefoot Running, Minimalism, Review, Running, VFF, Vibrams, Vibrams Five Fingers

New “Shoes”

May 24, 2010 By Joel Runyon 10 Comments

Hey, I put some new shoes on, And suddenly everything is right - Paolo Nutini [Listen] ---- I've been needing new shoes lately.  My current shoes I got January '09 for my last track season.  I've been wearing them since and they've been pretty worn down. I needed to get some new ones and I've been seeing and hearing a lot of Vibrams 5 Fingers shoes and hearing people swear by them. I sent out a shout on twitter to see if they really were the real deal ...

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Filed Under: Fitness, Updates Tagged With: Barefoot Running, Minimalism, REI, Running, VFF, Vibrams Five Fingers

Experiences > Things

May 7, 2010 By Joel Runyon 21 Comments

People who collect experiences are more interesting than people who collect things. I came across that quote on Twitter a while back. It's probably been a few months, and I have no idea who said it, but it's been churning in my mind ever since I saw it. As I thought about it, I started to realize why it stuck with me. I want to be interesting. Sure, on the very surface level I want be interesting so people think I'm interesting and like me, but more ...

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Filed Under: Hacks Tagged With: Adventures, Experiences, Experiences > Things, Minimalism

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