The Shocking Reason Your Home is Cluttered & the 30-Day Fix with Ashlee Piper (Ep 317)

Have you ever decluttered your home only to watch it slowly fill right back up? This episode is for you.

Ashlee Piper is a sustainability expert, speaker, and author who has been featured on the Today Show, Good Morning America, and CNN, and in Vogue, the New York Times, and Newsweek. She created the No New Things Challenge in 2013. What started as a personal 30-day experiment turned into nearly two years of not buying anything new. The result? She saved over $36,000, paid off $22,000 in debt, reclaimed her time, and completely rewired her relationship with shopping. Her new book, No New Things: A Radically Simple 30-Day Guide to Saving Money, the Planet, and Your Sanity, guides readers through the same challenge.

In this conversation, Ashlee and Deanna dig into what she calls conditioned consumerism, the history of how post-WWII America reprogrammed an entire society from resourceful people into reflexive shoppers, and how that programming is the real reason your home keeps filling up no matter how many times you declutter.

In this episode you will learn:

• Why the urge to buy new things is not a personal failing but a historical and marketing construct
• The SUPER System: five ways to get your needs met without buying anything new
• How to use a trigger-tracking journal to discover the real emotions driving your shopping impulses
• The 2-7 minute rule and why riding it out changes everything
• How the challenge builds creativity, community, and connection as unexpected side effects
• Why Ashlee says women are the most powerful purchasing cohort on the planet and what that means for your household

Pick up No New Things wherever books are sold. You can also find it secondhand at ThriftBooks.

Find Ashlee on Instagram: @ashleepiper

Learn more at: ashleepiper.com

Full show notes: wannabeclutterfree.com/317

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