You're listening to episode 32 of the Sustainable Minimalist podcast.

You are listening to the Sustainable Minimalist podcast, a show about living simply and

sustainably with your family. Here's your host, Stephanie Safarian.

Hello there and welcome back.

It is definitely 100% without a doubt.

It is summer. Today we are talking about what I like to call

the vacation sensation. Now we all know the feeling. It's that completely relaxed, utterly carefree existence that heightens the senses and slows the clock.

It's a feeling that rarely exists in everyday life, and the vacation sensation only surfaces

when you're physically and mentally and probably emotionally too distanced from the daily grind.

Now if you consider yourself a minimalist, you already know the inherent value in spending money on experiences and vacations over stuff.

You already know that your dollar goes much further when you spend it on an experience instead of when you purchase a

trinket or the latest fashion item etc. So I don't need to tell you any of that. But my family just got back from vacation.

And what kills me is that the day before we even returned home. So we're still on vacation at this point.

The stresses of everyday life were already finding cracks in our vacation harmony and creeping and crawling their way back in.

So I wanted to know, can we keep the vacation sensation alive well after returning home?

And if so, how?

That's the question I'm answering today.

Now I really didn't want this episode to be all fantasy. I didn't want it to be all fairies and

unicorns and all these unattainable whimsical ideas. So I'm backing the suggestions I give you today up with research wherever possible.

If you hadn't figured it out yet, I love research.

So the goal here is that you listen to my suggestions, but you don't all of a sudden incorporate all of them into your daily life, right?

If you listen to last week's episode, episode 31, you heard my guest, Jen Panero, talk about how important it is

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