335 | Consumer Regrets
The Minimalists
Joshua Fields Millburn
4.7 • 11.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
The Minimalists talk about purchases that lead to buyer’s remorse, and they answer the following questions:
Does regret serve us in any way? (01:57)
How do we overcome the loss and regret we feel after donating items so we don’t end up simply replacing them and repeating the cycle? (06:03)
How do we recognize when we’re senselessly justifying a purchase that holds little to no actual benefit for us? (16:08)
Do your children have any regrets? (23:45)
What do we do when we experience buyer’s remorse with every purchase? (27:52)
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| 0:00.0 | Every little thing you think that you need |
| 0:20.0 | Every little thing you think that you need |
| 0:26.0 | Hello everybody, welcome to the Minimalist Podcast where we discuss what it means to live a meaningful life with less. |
| 0:33.0 | My name is Joshua Phil Dsmealburn and I'm Ryan Nicodemus and together we're the Minimalists. |
| 0:38.0 | Danny Unknown, get that TikTok machine ready because I have a question for everyone. |
| 0:43.0 | What's one thing that you've purchased that you soon regretted? |
| 0:48.0 | Seriously, let me know one thing in the comments because today we're talking about consumer regrets |
| 0:55.0 | and buyers remorse on the Minimalist Podcast. |
| 0:58.0 | Why? Well, because we often buy things that we think we want. |
| 1:03.0 | Just to find out that the things we want aren't actually the things we want. |
| 1:09.0 | Then this Thursday on the Minimalist Private Podcast, Ryan and I are going to talk about our own personal consumer regrets. |
| 1:16.0 | We'll ask our team to open up about their consumer regrets and we'll turn to our audience to hear about myriad of things we want to do. |
| 1:24.0 | Myriad other types of buyers remorse plus Ryan now that the smoke has cleared. |
| 1:32.0 | We're going to argue about Will Smith slapping Chris Rock during the Oscars. |
| 1:39.0 | My goodness. |
| 1:40.0 | And we're going to talk about all the backlash that the Minimalists receive recently on social media on two separate occasions this week. |
| 1:47.0 | You can check that out at patreon.com slash the Minimalist. Your support keeps our podcast and YouTube channel. |
| 1:54.0 | 100% advertisement free. Malabama looks like we got a question here from Holly on Facebook. |
| 2:01.0 | What good does regret do for us? Is it just another form of destructive attachment or is there some sort of benefit? |
| 2:09.0 | Ryan, we are attached to regret. I don't know. I don't know if regret. |
| 2:14.0 | I mean, ultimately, yes, it is some sort of attachment. I don't know how destructive it is. |
| 2:21.0 | And so when I saw this question from Holly, I started looking into, are there any benefits of regret? |
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