"If you think eco-living is expensive you aren't doing it right"

In this week's episode I catch up with the lovely Innes Vautier to chat all things slow and simple living with kids.

Innes' website Aboderie provides endless inspiration for embracing a minimal, sustainable life and we discuss how Innes has found ways to embrace slow living while living in London. Innes is really open about the challenges that can come with living in a big city, but also the positives that city life brings.

We take a deep dive into how we can all cut down on our waste and adopt a low impact lifestyle by being more intentional. Innes shares her advice on how we can adopt more eco-friendly choices that should save you money like gardening, family cloth, cloth nappies and using what you already have.

We also discuss imposter syndrome online especially when it comes to sustainability, how fixing and making things is good for our mental health and that life isn't always Pinterest perfect so we need to be realistic.

Things mentioned in this episode:

• Brockwell House community garden
• Family cloth - Innes has a brilliant guide to getting started with family cloth
• Who Gives and Crap? - If you aren't ready to switch to family cloth just yet there are plenty of sustainable toilet rolls 
• Picking one thing to switch to get started

Innes is one of the nicest people online and it's impossible not to be inspired by her beautiful posts about living sustainably.

You can find Innes on Instagram @aboderie and at www.aboderie.co.uk

And I'd love to hear what you thought of this episode over on Instagram/a.minimalist.mother

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