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Sustainable Minimalists

Shopping Triggers

Sustainable Minimalists

Bleav + Stephanie Seferian

Leisure, Parenting, Kids & Family, Home & Garden

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

You've likely been there. That moment when you look at your credit card statement and your heart sinks. Sometimes logic gives way to desire, and nothing's worse than realizing you overshopped on impulses. A lot. It’s time to take a look at what happens in the moments *before* we impulse buy. On today's show: honing in our 5 shopping triggers so we can insert that crucial pause before buying. Here's a preview: [3:45] Advertisers shape our desires, and the credit industry makes these desires seem affordable. Yikes! [9:30] Buyer, beware: when your mind becomes your own worst enemy.  [15:00] The shopping trigger that's the most common and the most difficult to overcome [23:00] Got parental guilt? Why you should stop buying stuff for your kids to compensate  [29:00] Hankering to buy food when your kitchen is full? How to determine whether a physical trigger is colliding with an emotional one   Resources mentioned: To Buy or Not to Buy: Why We Overshop and How to Stop (by Dr. April Benson) Insert that pause with this free printout for your wallet The Poverty of Affluence: A Psychological Portrait of the American Way of Life (by Dr. Paul Wachel)   This show is listener-supported. Thank you for supporting! Join our (free!) Facebook community here. Find your tribe. Sustainable Minimalists are on Facebook, Instagram + Youtube @sustainableminimalists Say hello! MamaMinimalistBoston@gmail.com.

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0:00.0

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1:05.2

Well, hello and welcome. My name is Stephanie Safarian and you're listening to episode 432 of sustainable minimalists.

1:10.6

This is a show about intentional and eco-friendly minimalist living.

1:15.0

On today's show, we are identifying our shopping triggers once and for all.

1:22.0

We are all united in one thing and that one thing is this. Each and every one of us has at least once in our lives bought something on impulse. Why do we do this? Why do we go against our

1:36.9

long-term best interests in favor of a short-term win? A listener reached out to me and she said she is having quite a difficult time with

1:46.6

her no spend month precisely because she feels triggered to shop everywhere she looks. And so this episode is for you Mary, but it's also for everyone,

1:57.4

whether you're currently in the middle of your no spend January or not. This episode is for everyone looking for more insight into their

2:06.0

shopping triggers and so what's a trigger? Well you may not know this about me but I

2:12.0

have a major temper a major one and a big

2:17.5

trigger that brings my anger to the forefront is injustice in some way.

2:22.6

When someone does or says something

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