Can You Buy Nothing And Get What You Want? | 6
Call Me Curious
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🗓️ 14 April 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Swapping is the new shopping! The Buy Nothing Project was created to reduce the massive impact regular retail shopping has on our environment, and increase a sense of local community. Nikki and Malone chat with the movements founders to find out exactly what they're all about and get the best freecycling tips money CAN'T buy.
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| 0:00.0 | From Wondry, I'm Nikki Boyer, and this is Call Me Curious, where every week I'll get to the bottom of those funny, strange, puzzling, or just got-a-no questions you have. |
| 0:17.1 | And we'll tell you the best we can what the answer is. |
| 0:21.2 | Because I've got 21 questions Because I've got 21 questions. |
| 0:23.8 | I've been 21 guessing you could teach me a lesson. |
| 0:28.5 | Call me curious. |
| 0:32.3 | Call me curious. |
| 0:34.4 | Call me curious. |
| 0:36.4 | So tell the truth. |
| 0:37.8 | I need to know that it's real. |
| 0:46.8 | So tell the truth. |
| 0:50.0 | Hi, welcome to call me curious, where we do our best to actually learn the stuff people pretend to know about. |
| 0:57.7 | Okay, I'm going to start today's episode by asking a quick question. |
| 1:01.3 | Instapot, air fryer, essential oil diffuser. What do they all have in common? |
| 1:07.7 | Well, I'll tell you, they're all sitting in my frigging garage and I never used them. |
| 1:12.1 | So the real question is, what do we do with all this extra stuff that we accumulate, but we don't |
| 1:18.2 | really need? While I might not need an air fryer or 12 boxes of diet raspberry inserts for my |
| 1:24.1 | soda stream, the good news is somebody somewhere does. And it would make me so happy |
| 1:29.8 | to give them away. This is what we call a gifting economy, and it's led to something called the |
| 1:35.3 | buy nothing movement. But what exactly is the buy nothing movement about? And can I really buy nothing? |
| 1:45.9 | Well, here to help me dive into the buy nothing movement and this system of sharing is the king of oversharing, Mr. Malone. Hey. |
| 1:52.6 | Hi, Nikki. How are you? I'm so good. I'm so happy you're here because I think this is going to be |
| 1:58.4 | right up your alley. Is the buy nothing movement about just being frugal or is it about giving like your old junk away or is it a little bit about like what is it about? Oh, ready to go because I think my neighbors are in this. Oh really? I think they do this. Yeah. And it's funny because I live in a house, right? And so I'm, I'm not as close to my neighbors, but you live in like a little |
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