640: The Unconscious Urge to Shop by Luise Jorgensen with Cait Flanders

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🗓️ 11 September 2017

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Luise Jorgensen guest-posts on Cait Flanders' site with her personal experience of paring down. Episode 640: The Unconscious Urge to Shop by Luise Jorgensen with Cait Flanders (Simple Living & Minimalism). Cait Flanders started Blonde on a Budget to document her debt repayment journey. After paying it off, she adopted a minimalist lifestyle, tossed 75% of her stuff, and is currently doing a two-year shopping ban. She shares stories and lessons learned every week. The original post is located here: http://caitflanders.com/2017/08/30/unconscious-urge-to-shop Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com 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 episodes 640, the unconscious
0:05.2	urge to shop by Luis Jorksen with KeepFlanders.com.
0:09.3	I'm Justin Mollick.
0:10.8	Happy Monday and welcome to Optimal Living Daily in the OLD podcast network, where we
0:14.9	need 8000 to blog posts for you for free.
0:18.4	And today's is a guest post from KeepFlanders' site.
0:21.6	For now, it's here today's post as we optimize your life.
0:29.0	The unconscious urge to shop by Luis Jorksen with KeepFlanders.com.
0:34.8	I don't know about you, but I used to get this silent feeling of being empty or of having
0:39.2	an unfilatable void, and I didn't really know what to do about it.
0:43.1	At those times, I would often end up going shopping, even make the feeling go away, at
0:47.8	least for a short period of time.
0:49.4	It didn't last long, though, and I'd have to venture out again, go online, or roam through
0:54.4	women's magazines, and look at stuff, and dream of how I would feel owning it.
0:59.3	I would browse stores for desirable clothes, cute interior design pieces that felt like
1:04.0	they contained the promise of a happy life just by being pretty, or shoes.
1:08.5	High heels, sandals, ballet flats, colorful ones, black ones, classic ones.
1:13.8	I was kind of obsessed with shoes.
1:16.0	All of it felt like a way to express myself and to convey who I was and indicate my place
1:20.4	in the world.
1:21.4	I would spend a lot of time and a lot of money, oftentimes more than I actually had, and
1:26.4	I remember feeling slightly guilty, and would often hide what I had bought from my boyfriend
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