Ep. 103: Frugality
Simple
Tsh Oxenreider
4.3 • 879 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2017
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
In the spirit of the upcoming holidays, this week’s episode is on… not spending money. It’s perfectly fine to spend money when it’s good to do so—but how often do we ask whether it’s needed?
Haley is big on something called “buy nothing” groups, Tsh is a fan of thrift stores, and they both have still other ideas in between. What does it mean to live frugally? When is it a healthy, common sense, for-the-common-good practice, and when does it become a burden and a dogma?
In this chat, they talk about how they incorporate a frugal spirit into our daily choices while steering clear of curmudgeon-ery. Don’t worry, there’s no guilt trip here—but there is encouragement to not assume every thing is worth shelling out hard cash for.
It’s good for all of us to remember this, right before the holidays.
p.s. - Before heading out with gusto on Black Friday, consider checking out our Ethical Shopping Guide, and be on the lookout for our annual Ethical Holiday Gift Guide—coming soon!
Links From This Episode:
- Follow The Simple Show on Instagram
- Haleys blog, Carrots for Michaelmas
- Haley on Instagram and Twitter
- Tsh on Instagram and Twitter
- Buy Nothing Groups
- The thrift store can be your (nearly free) storage unit
- 3 questions I ask before buying something
- Beauty in what remains
....and also, never miss an episode by getting Tsh's weekly email, 5 Quick Things! She shares whatever they've created the previous week (like Simple Show episodes), plus other goodness you might enjoy. (You can read it in under a minute, pinky-swear.)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Simple Show. You've got episode 103. |
| 0:07.2 | Hi, I'm Tish Oxenwriter. |
| 0:08.9 | And I'm Haley Stewart. |
| 0:10.5 | And on The Simple Show, we talk about saying no and yes to the right things. |
| 0:14.1 | In this episode, we're talking about frugality and approaching our purchases with intentionality. |
| 0:20.6 | And before we do that, we want to encourage you, if you haven't yet, to get on the weekly |
| 0:27.1 | email list. I send out an email every Tuesday called Five Quick Things, and I write it |
| 0:32.0 | on purpose to be read in under a minute, because I know your inboxes get really full and you |
| 0:36.7 | don't have time for a long-winded email. So in under a minute, I know your inboxes get really full and you don't have time for a long |
| 0:37.8 | winded email. So in under a minute, I fill you in on what the latest podcast was that we |
| 0:43.4 | published any blog posts and any other things I have found around the internet that I think |
| 0:48.2 | would be an encouragement to you. So you can find a link to sign up for the email list in the show notes |
| 0:53.6 | of this episode or you can go to the art of simple.net slash email, especially if you're listening to this as we go live the Monday before Thanksgiving 2017. This Friday, meaning Black Friday, we are releasing our annual holiday gift guide. We focus on specifically ethical brands and companies, |
| 1:12.3 | and it's a great way for you to support businesses that do good and make quality things, |
| 1:18.0 | and for you to give with intentionality, and it's a great theme for this particular episode. |
| 1:24.1 | So go to theartisanple.com.com. Okay, Haley, start us off with this nebulous topic |
| 1:31.8 | of frugality. What do you say no to when it comes to just, you know, saving money and living on the cheap? |
| 1:37.0 | Yeah. Okay. So I was thinking that one of the things I think I've made progress in saying no to is |
| 1:43.7 | impulse purchasing, you know, just thinking, |
| 1:46.0 | oh, we need a new chair or we need this item for the kids and just immediately going to the |
| 1:53.2 | store or ordering it from Amazon and instead kind of taking a minute, maybe sleeping on it, |
| 1:58.7 | thinking, do I really need that item? And the awesome thing |
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