{"id":89,"date":"2008-07-01T06:06:39","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T10:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becomingminimalist.wordpress.com\/?p=120"},"modified":"2008-07-01T06:06:39","modified_gmt":"2008-07-01T10:06:39","slug":"minimalism-in-america-home-size","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.becomingminimalist.com\/minimalism-in-america-home-size\/","title":{"rendered":"minimalism in america, home size"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-121 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.becomingminimalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/new-house-sizes-graph.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>according to the national association of home builders, the average american home has more than doubled since 1950.\u00a0 and once we&#8217;ve got that extra space, we need to buy things to put in it, right?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>no wonder minimalism is such a foreign concept to us 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