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Edit Your Life | Simplify + Declutter Your Home, Time, and Mental Space

Everyday Frugal Edits

Edit Your Life | Simplify + Declutter Your Home, Time, and Mental Space

Edit Your Life Show

Society & Culture

4.6530 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

COVID-19 has forced people to live differently in so many ways (#understatement) and one of those ways is living a more frugal/economic lifestyle. Christine and Asha talk about how frugality is playing out in their homes right now + they share genius listener tips generated from an episode on easy eco-friendly habits. Edit Your Life is an award-winning podcast that shares practical ideas for decluttering your home, schedule, and mental space without getting bogged down by perfection. Visit edityourlifeshow.com for show notes and to connect with host Christine Koh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Edit Your Life podcast. I'm Christine Co. And I'm Asha Dornfest, and we're here to help you edit the unnecessary from your life so you have more room to enjoy the awesome.

0:15.7

We share practical ways to declutter your home, schedule, and mental space without getting bogged down by perfection.

0:21.6

And we help you take action with doable baby steps that will leave you feeling accomplished instead of overwhelmed.

0:27.5

Good morning, Asha. How are you?

0:29.8

I'm okay. How are you doing this morning?

0:32.5

I'm great, thank you. And I feel like, you know, number 201, I feel like we've entered this new chapter.

0:39.4

A new country.

0:40.5

Yeah, it feels like really official.

0:42.3

So anyway, so it was really fun to have our kind of like loose and open conversation for our 200th milestone.

0:53.0

And we're going to kind of circle it back, circle the wagons back to kind of

0:57.0

practical tactics today.

0:58.4

And the inspiration for this episode, everyday frugal edits, is that I have been thinking

1:06.2

a ton about how our current COVID-19 driven life is basically like forcing a lot of frugal

1:15.3

economic lifestyle tweaks.

1:17.3

And then I saw our friend, so this has been on my mind for like quite some time as I've

1:21.3

been editing my own behavior.

1:22.7

And then I saw our friend Shannon Lynn post a Vox article called The Novel Fugality about this very thing.

1:30.1

And I'll link it in the notes.

1:32.2

I just thought it would be interesting to talk about how this is playing out in our homes right now.

1:38.0

And it reminded me that back in episode 188, we did an episode on easy, easy, eco-friendly habits.

1:45.2

And our question of the week that week was, what's one change you've made or intend to make to conserve resources?

1:51.0

And we got a ton of, like, really interesting, fun, creative responses.

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