I'm Stephanie Safarian and this is episode 111.

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

with your family.

Here's your host host Stephanie Safarian.

Hello there and welcome back.

On today's show, we are talking about practical ways

to combat mindless spending.

Now, is equal friendliness becomes more mainstream,

more and more corporations are ready and willing to share with you their green products. But the simple truth is that we cannot, we cannot buy

our way out of the environmental crisis our consumerism has created.

The answer does not lie in buying eco-friendly stuff.

The answer lies in not buying.

Now I know that's probably an unpopular statement. in not

going to hear it from corporations, but you are going to hear it from corporations,

but you are going to hear it from me because it is the truth.

The manufacturing, the packaging, and the shipment of any product, whether it's an

eco-friendly product or not, harms the planet. Now, we have talked about strategies to buy less before on this show.

We have outlined the ins and outs behind no spend challenges.

We have shed light on advertising tricks that entice us to buy. But still, even though we have talked

about all this before, I am certain that you and I still get that itch, right? The

itch is that feeling we get when we see something we really really want and we throw caution to the wind and we just go for it

We buy it despite everything we know and despite that voice in at the back of our minds telling us to hold on a minute.

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