Your Favorite Things

At the core of minimalist living is deliberately choosing what to own. In addition, after whittling down to your accepted number of items you’ve likely developed favoritism towards certain possessions. A favorite notebook, gadget or bag, favored brand of shoes or gloves, a favorite frying pan or garden shovel.

I’m initiating a series of guest posts on Simple Black Coffee for anyone that wants to participate. Bloggers, non-bloggers, minimalists and non-minimalists can share their favorite items with the world. Maybe your favorite item is something that we all see in the stores but walk past, not knowing how great it really is or perhaps it’s an item from a little known online store that we wouldn’t discover unless you tell us about it.

This will be a fun thing to participate in and I’m inviting YOU! Please share with the rest of us what you think are the greatest, coolest things you own.

Your post can be about any object you want to discuss, it can be a short blurb with a link to an online store or a couple paragraphs describing why your favorite item is the best one available. Simply send an email to simpleblackcoffee(@)gmail(.)com with your guest post and feel free to include your blog and/or twitter info as well. I hope this will be a fun series to watch and learn from. Multiple entries from the same person are more than welcome.

This idea was inspired by Patrick Rhone’s Minimal Mac | Enough podcast. More specifially episode 11 where he discusses the topic Final Choices, Sensible Defaults.

Posts in the Favorite Things series:

• Sharpie Pen by Craig Keirstead of Simple Black Coffee
• Clothing by Joshua Millburn of The Minimalists
• TUL Pen by Kevin Lemere of Ground Up Life
• Evernote by David Damron of Life Excursion
• Nothing by Dusti Arab of Minimalist Adventures
• Chrome Shoes by Seth Werkheiser of The Bike Nerd
• Work Boots by Andrew Odom of Tiny r(E)volution
• Safety Razor by Bernie Mack of Get Off This Wheel
• iPod Touch (+4 more) by Serena of The Everyday Minimalist
• Kitchen Tools by Cheryl Breuer of Peculiar Girl
• Headlamp by Jennifer Miller
• Books by Naomi Seldin Ramirez of Simpler Living
• Bicycle by Beverly Army Williams of PoMo Golightly
• Birkenstock Sandals by Robert Wall of Untitled Minimalism
• Cup of Coffee by Matt Madeiro of Three New Leaves
• Simplenote by Rob of Simple Llama
• Messenger Bag by Sam Spurlin of The Simpler Life
• Makeup by Courtney Carver of Be More With Less
• Guitar by David William of Almost Bohemian