A Judgement-Free Conversation About Shopping More Mindfully This Holiday Season: Episode 287
The Mom Hour
Mom Hour Media
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2020
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Shopping mindfully or practicing conscious consumerism can be a powerful way to show our support to struggling or underrepresented businesses this holiday season. It can also be, to use a phrase we lean on more and more these days, A LOT. It’s a lot to think about, it can be overwhelming to navigate, and it definitely can put strain on your budget. In today’s episode, Meagan and Sarah discuss where we our in our own shopping priorities, what we’d like to do more of this holiday season, and how we’ve practiced mindful shopping recently. We also talk through some specific purchases we’ve made through small online retailers recently, as a way to get your creative wheels turning. Join us!
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- Sarah mentioned bookshop.org for shopping Indie bookstores online
- Sarah’s recent Etsy purchases include this handcrafted leather valet tray, a hanging planter basket, these fun surprise mugs, and a pom-pom play canopy
- Sarah’s recent Minted purchases include a cute weekender tote, fabric napkin sets, and these beautiful mother/child prints by Kate Ahn
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Sarah. And I'm Megan. We're two moms with eight kids between us from little to |
| 0:05.7 | grown. We're in different areas of the country and in different stages of life. But we both know that |
| 0:10.5 | motherhood's a lot easier when real moms share tips and encouragement. |
| 0:14.0 | And remind you that it's really all going to be okay. |
| 0:16.0 | We're not experts. We're parents who've been there. |
| 0:19.0 | We're not perfect. We're real. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome to the mom hour. |
| 0:22.0 | Hi everyone and welcome to episode 287 of the Mom Hour. |
| 0:27.0 | I am Megan Francis here as always with Sarah Powers. |
| 0:29.0 | How are you Sarah? |
| 0:30.0 | I'm good, Megan. How are you? |
| 0:32.0 | I'm good and I'm really excited for our topic today because not only are we talking about |
| 0:37.2 | Holiday shopping and just shopping in general but during the holiday season, but we're talking about mindful shopping, which I think is something that we have |
| 0:45.2 | touched on a lot, but never really dug fully into, especially in the era we are living in now, where things have gotten a little different. |
| 0:55.2 | Yeah and things have changed. |
| 0:56.8 | I mean, I, my, the way I think about shopping intentionally or shopping |
| 1:01.2 | mindfully, I think it's evolved over like the last 10 years, |
| 1:04.3 | but I think it's really, |
| 1:06.2 | it's been something I've thought a lot about in the last year. |
| 1:08.6 | Yeah, agreed. |
| 1:10.0 | Also, I think that there are other factors that play this year. |
| 1:12.6 | So we're all kind of going to be shopping, |
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