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Hello there and welcome back. My name is Stephanie Safarian and you're listening to episode 253 of sustainable minimalists,

a twice weekly show about intentional and eco-minimalist living.

On today's show, we are discussing all things kids' birthday parties.

Gretchen on Instagram reached out to me and she said,

how on earth do sustainable minimalist do birthday parties?

Can you please cover this on an episode?

And I thought to myself, what better time for me

to cover this topic than in March when both my daughters

have birthday parties?

So there are five weekends in March.

Three of them are dedicated to birthday party celebration.

So we are going to get into a four-part show today.

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