What does it mean to live more with less? I'm Katie Wells and welcome to the Maximized Minimalist

podcast. If you found yourself caught up in the hamster wheel of modern day motherhood and want to

rewrite the script, congratulations you're in the right place. I'm here to be your guide and help you take

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and achieve a simpler, more joy-filled life. Cheers to being a maximized minimalist. Enjoy the show.

Hey, Simplifier, welcome back. I am so glad to be hanging out with you. We are going to be diving

into six ideas to reduce impulse shopping today. This is a hot topic

and what makes these unique is that these tips come from me. And if you know my story,

you know that I am basically a recovering shopaholic. I used to shop all the time. I used to think

I could buy my way into a happier life by tapping by now. And by the way,

there's an episode coming out on that lesson that I learned from that very soon. And I filled my

home with clutter, wasted so much of our family's money. And over the years, have really learned

how to change that and be a lot more intentional with my spending. And you know, I'm all

about getting to the root of our clutter. It doesn't matter how much we get rid of if we don't

also focus on why we have clutter to begin with. And for me, I was the one bringing the clutter

into my house. But, you know, in the moment, it doesn't feel like that new top in three different

colors is clutter, does it? It never feels

like, oh, this is going to be clutter in a week or six months or even like one month from now.

So let's talk about six ideas to reduce impulse shopping. Here's some basics. Number one,

and I think this is probably one of the most important things to identify, is to know your

shopping triggers. What is a trigger that's happening in your physical environment or in your

mind or your body? That's then you're reaching for your phone and tapping on Amazon or whatever

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