212: Why Newer Isn't Always Better
Maximized Minimalist Podcast
Katy Wells
4.8 • 936 Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
My 8 year old has been asking me for months, "Mooooommmm, when can we get a new car?! This car is SO OLD!"
and I couldn't help but wonder...
Why does he (and basically everyone on the planet) think that something is better simply because it's new?
It didn't take me long into my late night Google sesh where I found out something SHOCKING - which I share in today's newest episode.
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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. |
| 0:29.8 | Is newer really better? This is what we're going to explore in today's episode, and it's inspired |
| 0:35.8 | by a question my eight-year-old has been asking me |
| 0:38.7 | month after month for like the last year. He has been asking my husband and I, when are you |
| 0:46.1 | going to get a new car? I want a new car, mommy. Here's the thing. We drive a minivan and my son |
| 0:53.2 | wants a pickup truck. And I love our minivan. It's not the cutest car on the thing. We drive a minivan and my son wants a pickup truck. And I love our minivan. |
| 0:57.3 | It's not the cutest car in the world. I get it. It's not for everyone, but we have just found it so |
| 1:01.7 | practical since beginning our family. And we love the sliding door feature that is hands down |
| 1:07.0 | my favorite part of being a minivan driver. I just love it. And so my son's been saying, |
| 1:12.3 | mom, our car is so old. Like, when are we going to get a new one? And can we get a track if we get a new car? |
| 1:18.7 | And it made me realize that whether you're eight years old or 88 years old or any age for that matter, |
| 1:24.8 | there's this like common thread and belief that just because something is old, |
| 1:29.7 | it's either bad, it's boring, or it should be replaced. And it's funny because when we initially |
| 1:37.9 | bought this minivan several years ago, what happens when we buy anything new? We get that initial |
| 1:43.8 | excitement. Oh my gosh, I got a new |
| 1:45.5 | car. Maybe even if it isn't your dream car, you're probably excited in some fashion. And for most of us, |
| 1:51.3 | that feeling fizzles out pretty quick, right? And before we know it, we start to get a little twitchy |
| 1:56.0 | starting to do some Google research and looking at cars nearby or whatever it is to get some |
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