555: What If We Only Bought the Stuff We Loved from Budgets Are Sexy

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🗓️ 18 June 2017

⏱️ 8 minutes

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J. Money is a 6’1, hyperactive, rock a ‘hawk who loves drinking beer, blaring hip-hop, talking about money, and now playing with his two adorable baby boys. He also has a podcast: M.O.N.E.Y. He tracked his expenses for 3 months, made a budget, read some books, and stumbled into personal finance blogging and idea sharing, randomly turning BudgetsAreSexy.com into his full time “real job” a few short years later--14 million views later! Episode 555: What If We Only Bought the Stuff We Loved from Budgets Are Sexy (Simple Living & Minimalism). The original post is located here: http://www.budgetsaresexy.com/stuff-you-love-mentality Please Rate & Review the Show! Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com and in The O.L.D. Facebook Group and Join the Ol' Family to get your Free Gifts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Living Daily, episode 555.
0:03.8	What if we only bought the stuff we loved by JayMoney of budgetsorsexy.com and I'm Justin
0:08.8	Mollick.
0:09.8	Happy Sunday and welcome back to Optimal Living Daily.
0:12.5	A podcast with a vision of bringing hundreds of blogs to audio for free.
0:16.5	Here I currently read from a bunch of different personal development and minimalism blogs like
0:20.4	The Minimalist, Mark and Angel, Steve Pavlina, Derek Sivers and many more all with their
0:25.9	permission.
0:26.9	I'm going to try this whole week to do sort of minimalist how to post.
0:30.8	There's a good chance you're interested in minimalism if you're listening to this podcast.
0:35.0	So I'm starting out with a post from JayMoney who's regularly featured on the Optimal
0:39.2	Finance Daily podcast.
0:40.6	I'm going to give you a break from any promotional content so let's get right to it and start
0:44.7	optimizing your life.
0:50.8	What if we only bought the stuff we loved by JayMoney of budgetsorsexy.com?
0:56.8	I came across an article by Kathleen, Frugal Portland the other day and I absolutely
1:01.5	loved the idea she threw out to our audience regarding the stuff we fill our lives with.
1:06.5	She had been inspired by a quote she read in an NPR article on Compulsive Shopping which
1:11.0	in itself was good.
1:13.0	Quote, you can never get enough of what you don't really need.
1:17.0	But I personally was more drawn to what she blogged about shortly thereafter.
1:22.3	Quote, what if instead we only bought things that we loved?
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