3763: Shopping by Rose Lounsbury on How to Live a More Intentional Life with Minimalism

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🗓️ 6 October 2025

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3763: Rose Lounsbury explores how shopping often goes beyond necessity and becomes a way to seek comfort, identity, or even a temporary sense of control. By reflecting on why we shop and how our purchases align, or don’t, with our values, she offers a pathway toward more intentional living and freedom from clutter. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://roselounsbury.com/shopping/ Quotes to ponder: "Shopping feels good. New things feel good. They distract us from our pain." "When we shop without awareness, we buy things that don’t match our values, and they clutter up our homes and lives." "True freedom comes when we stop looking to things to solve problems that only we can solve for ourselves." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's a Minimalist Monday edition of Optimal Living Daily, Shopping by Rose Lounsbury of
0:06.6	roselousbary.com, and I'm JustaMollick.
0:10.2	Happy Monday, welcome back to Optimal Living Daily or the OLD podcast where I read to you from
0:15.6	some of the best articles I can find and get permission from.
0:19.3	We'd get right to our Minimal minimalist Monday post as we optimize your life.
0:27.6	Shopping by Rose Lounsbury of Rose Lounsbury.com.
0:32.3	When I started to embrace a minimalist lifestyle, I wondered, will I ever shop again?
0:38.7	Cruising the mall isn't exactly in sync with a minimalist mindset, but I have to admit,
0:43.6	even though I live the less is more life, I'm still kind of shockingly, even to me, a girl who
0:50.3	likes to shop.
0:52.0	So how does one solve this dilemma?
0:56.6	Here are four rules I've adopted about minimalist shopping to help you avoid some shopping pitfalls. Rule number one, one in equals one out.
1:05.4	This is a mantra of minimalist. Basically it means that if you purchase one new item, one old one needs to find
1:12.7	its way to the curb, or donation box preferably. Here's an example of how I incorporated this on a
1:18.8	shopping trip several years ago, right at the beginning of my minimalist journey. I went to the
1:24.2	mall in pursuit of one thing, the perfect black skirt. I'd been looking for
1:29.2	said skirt for several months with no luck. I wanted something simple, comfortable, and easy to wash
1:35.7	and dry. Lo and behold, I found exactly what I was looking for. On the same trip, I also picked up a pair
1:43.0	of workout leggings. These were necessary because
1:45.7	during a trip to the Y, a few weeks prior, I'd realize that doing crunches and loose soccer shorts
1:51.6	may have revealed a bit more than my dedicated workout attitude. Because I had brought two new things
1:57.5	into my house, two old ones had to go. Luckily, I knew just the right candidates,
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