014: How to Become a Mindful Shopper and Stop Buying Crap You Don't Need
Maximized Minimalist Podcast
Katy Wells
4.8 • 936 Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2019
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Today’s episode is about putting intention and mindfulness back into the shopping experience.
Our culture has trained us to seek instant gratification through materialism.
A few of the problems with this mentality are:
*the gratification never lasts (sorry, not sorry)
*it’s draining your bank account
*it creates extra waste = harmful for the environment
*it creates massive amounts of clutter in your home
I believe that no matter where we are on our journey of less, we can always work on improving our purchase habits.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What does it mean to live more with less? I'm Katie Wells and welcome to the Maximized Minimalist |
| 0:07.7 | podcast. If you found yourself caught up in the hamster wheel of modern day motherhood and want to |
| 0:14.1 | rewrite the script, congratulations you're in the right place. I'm here to be your guide and help you take |
| 0:20.6 | back your motherhood |
| 0:21.6 | and achieve a simpler, more joy-filled life. Cheers to being a maximized minimalist. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:29.4 | Welcome to the show. Today's episode is all about mindful shopping. So you may be thinking, |
| 0:36.8 | what the heck, Katie, is mindful shopping? It may even |
| 0:41.2 | sound a little bit like an oxymoron. Mindful and shopping in the same sentence? I'm confused, |
| 0:48.1 | right? Let me explain. Up until, you know, the 21st century for most people, mindful shopping was the only way to shop, |
| 0:56.4 | simply put, because they only bought what they needed. This was due to availability. Yes, |
| 1:02.9 | I'm talking about the days before we could order something on the internet and finances. So, yes, |
| 1:08.4 | I'm talking about the days before credit cards existed. Fast forward to |
| 1:12.3 | 2019 and impulse shopping, which is purchasing something you had no intention to buy until you |
| 1:19.1 | got to the store or hopped online is the new norm. Walking into Target to buy some diapers |
| 1:25.2 | and walking out with two new lamps, a new throw pillow, a swimsuit, |
| 1:30.9 | some sunglasses, and dang it, did I forget the diapers, the very thing I came here for, |
| 1:36.8 | plus a bill of 150 bucks. We laugh, but it's so true. This is the new norm. You can't scroll |
| 1:43.8 | social media for a day without seeing some |
| 1:46.9 | funny meme on the target shopping topic. And not to get all negative Nancy here, but I really |
| 1:54.2 | believe that needs to change. Many people are overusing their credit cards, spending more |
| 1:59.4 | than they own, and the average credit card |
| 2:01.6 | debt per person in this country is almost six grand. Yet, I digress, and let's save that topic |
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