#made do

I buy everything I want. Whenever I want it. No matter how long I have wanted it. I see a pair of shoes, I don’t think too much.

I just buy them.

This is how it has been going ad nauseum for years. It stops here. 

Today I make the decision to buy nothing for myself for a year.

This means (it’s going to get hardcore, because I am all in or it doesn’t work for me):

No new or used clothes.

No new or used shoes.

No coffeehouse beverages. Specific, I know.

No electronics.

No gifts. I’ll make em’, if it means knitting something or making a card.

No accessories.

Some of this is me wanting to reign in spending, but a lot of it is wanting to reduce my waste footprint on this planet. I am disgusted by the amount of stuff I throw away weekly.

What is okay?

Groceries

Gas

Car maintenance

From what I have read for the last few years on people who have done this, it is usually more painful for the people you live with/are friends with than it is for the actual person performing the process.

The decision to do this is falling on a month where I have one birthday I have planned for. I will take care of that, but this will be the only blip. I am hoping to give a weekly run down of what I would have spent had I kept spending. And maybe how many trash bags. And also how much I was able to get our grocery bill down. Stuff like that.