I'm Stephanie Safarian and this is episode 95.

You are listening to the Sustainable Minimalist Podcast, a show about living simply and sustainably with your family.

Here's your host, Stephanie Safarian.

Hello there and welcome back.

Have you ever heard your parents or your grandparents complain

that they just don't make things the way they used to?

Do you find yourself saying this every once in a while as you get a bit older?

It's true. Things are not made the way they used to be because oftentimes products aren't made with quality parts and they aren't made to last.

This phenomenon is called planned obsolescence and on today's show we are discussing ways to fight back against poorly made products that are designed to break.

Now today's episode is organized into three parts so to

speak or I like to say three acts as they say on this American life three acts.

Act one is all about what planned

obsolescence is and what it looks like in real life. Act two is ways to

fight back in general against planned obsolescence in our products and

in our purchases and act three is specifically about our smartphone,

specifically what we can do to extend the life of our smartphones,

because when we talk about planned obsolescence, generally the first item that comes to mind is our smartphones.

Now before we jump right in to Act 1, please know that I will be giving lots of resources on today's episode, so if you miss

them, definitely go back check out this week's's show notes which you can find at mama minimalist.com

forward slash 0.95.mamam minimalist.com forward slash 0.9.5.

All right, so here we go, Act 1.

What on earth is planned obsolescence?

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