#96: Our Complicated Relationship With Stuff

Young House Love Has A Podcast

John Petersik

Homeimprovement, Decorating, Arts, Blog, Diy, Younghouselove, Petersik, Interiordesign, Doityourself, Home, House, Decor, Design

4.9 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Right in the middle of our own month-long shopping ban, we jumped at the chance to have a deep conversation with the author who started it all: Cait Flanders. She shared fascinating insights, regrets, and explained how her “Year of Less” had a lasting change on her relationship with “stuff." She also cleared up some common misconceptions about her ban, including why shopping is not the enemy - and how this experiment affected her relationships (along with her bank account). We also cover how some outsourced work in our backyard from last fall is finally starting to pay off, and why we’re both very glad not to be in high school anymore.

Be sure to check out younghouselove.com/podcast-96/ for notes, links, and photos from this episode.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey guys, this week's episode is brought to you by the Annie Selkie companies.
0:05.0	And if you've got outdoor spaces on the brain, Annie's your girl.
0:08.0	There's a new outdoor living collection that just launched and I basically want everything,
0:12.0	especially the hanging egg chair. You can browse it all at AnnieSelkie.com,
0:15.0	slash YHL, and say 15% of your order with the code YHL15.
0:23.0	I'm John.
0:24.0	And I'm Sherry.
0:25.0	We like home stuff.
0:26.0	We like talking.
0:27.0	And we like the occasional game show sound effect.
0:29.0	So welcome to Young House Love has a podcast where we have deep and not so deep conversations
0:36.0	about DIY, design, and life at home.
0:39.0	Today we're talking with the author who inspired our shopping ban and she shares the regrets,
0:43.0	misconceptions, and lasting impacts of our money saving experiment.
0:46.0	Plus, some landscape ninjas pay us a visit and we sort of go back to high school.
0:51.0	I would say there's lots of things to be excited about this time of year.
0:54.0	I mean, Mother's Day was yesterday. Happy belated Mother's Day to all the moms.
0:59.0	At time of recording this, it has not yet been Mother's Day.
1:02.0	So I will assume that when I listen to this in the future, I will have been pampered and bestowed upon all the things I love,
1:10.0	like family time and a breakfast.
1:11.0	We will see if that assumption is true.
1:13.0	I just want like a breakfast with everyone and family time.
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