Keep Your Credit Card In Your Wallet, Sis!
Brown Girl Self-Care
Brown Girl Self-Care
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Overconsumerism this holiday season will not save us. Many of us want to "keep up with the Jones'" when they likely are living check to check themselves. Buying with intention versus buying to people please and prove your worth are different energies. Let's have a quick chat about this.
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| 0:00.0 | I just want to use this live as a conversation, a conversation from friend to friend, sister to sister, black woman, a black woman kind of vibe. |
| 0:15.3 | And just encourage you to keep those credit cards in your wallet. |
| 0:23.5 | Hey, hey, what's going on? You are listening to the Brown Girl Self Care podcast. |
| 0:27.7 | My name is Bree, and I'm the host of this show as well as the founder of Brown Girl Self Care. |
| 0:32.7 | Brown Girl Self Care is a platform and space of intentional healing, joy, rest, and abundance for black women. |
| 0:39.3 | Let's go ahead and just get right on into today's episode. |
| 0:42.0 | I want to talk about over consumerism today. |
| 0:44.7 | This is a live episode that I did on YouTube recently. |
| 0:49.5 | You know, the holidays are upon us and what we don't want to do, what we're not doing as we live our lives more intentionally, especially with everything that is going on right now, we are not going to dig ourselves into a hole. |
| 1:06.9 | We are not going to put ourselves into a hole for the holidays and if you are someone who spends |
| 1:14.1 | money whips out your credit card but you are doing it from a place of people pleasing doing it from a |
| 1:22.1 | place of i've got to get all the things that i can feel a certain way about how I'm perceived or who I am, |
| 1:30.0 | then maybe this episode is for you. |
| 1:33.6 | So I want to say, I'm not trying to get up in your business, but this is a conversation that I want to have and continue to have because over consumerism is not going to save us. |
| 1:46.5 | Over consumerism is not going to better our lives. |
| 1:50.4 | Okay. |
| 1:50.6 | So let me go ahead and get right back into the episode and I will see you on the other side. |
| 1:57.4 | Keep that debit card in your wallet. |
| 2:00.3 | Keep that money in the bank over this holiday |
| 2:04.9 | season and beyond this holiday season if you can because consumerism is not going to, |
| 2:13.4 | it's not going to save us. Consumerism is not going to save us. |
| 2:19.1 | You know, if anything, consumerism is going to save the Uber wealthy. |
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