#minimallism

Bedroom Decor, 1977

It’s amazing how your own brain and body can work against you, and your will... We make plans, we imagine our life and what we want from it. Yet nothing really happens, and we feel hallow. Something is missing...

“...Am i really gonna get real value out of this?”

Well i found the solutions to end it all and as you might have guessed it with the title, it’s not the easy path... First of all you need to start asking your self questions.

Where are you? what do you want for your futur? how are you gonna get there? Is this really what you want?

It sound kinda stupid right!? because you think you know all these things. True, but for some people including myself, it’s not always that obvious, because we are not focused enough on these goals and points. Taking the time to sit down and write down your financial situation and your goals will wake you up. This is the first step, writing sh*t down!

Now that you know where you are financially and what are your goals. You can take it to step 2: plan the changes you need to make in your life in order to reach your goals. Re-plan if you have to.

There’s no better way to plan than writing things down. When i was in my Manga school, one of the teachers told us to use an agenda to stay sharp and plan our weeks. I didn’t feel like it because i always knew what i needed to do each week, and it seemed to work just fine. Now i don’t feel the same because there’s so much more that i need to do, it’s easy to just let time fly by and think: oh i got time, ill do it later.

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.