No Buy Year
Sigh. Now I actually have to do math to figure out how many days it has been since I started my No Buy Year. While my December attempt may not have been perfect, I'm pleased I had that "dress rehearsal" to prime me for all the
Product Talk
As someone who has a weakness for seeing what other people have actually used (because that's when you get the real reviews) and as someone who wants to know how much she actually uses in order to temper her purchasing patterns, I'm listing my monthly empties.
No Buy Year
Got the notification most everyone has received about them adding ads to Prime Video. Realized that while I have used Amazon maybe once a month the past year, we've hardly watched anything on the service (I can just get Acorn on my own if I really want it
No Buy Year
The sales got me. Not as badly as they could have. But they still got me! I'm still only buying things I know I'll use, and one order was simply a "I have a small cart going that I'll purchase whenever shipping is
Whenever things feel like they're spiraling out of control, I reorganize my bathroom. Not the rest of the house. Just the bathroom. Maybe because it's small. Maybe because I like to see all the potions and things smell pretty and the makeup is colorful and cute.
No Buy Year
OMG. I'm such a failure. Not only have I been not keeping this "daily journal" that I so blithely assumed would be easy to do (500 words a day just checking for accountability, how hard can that be???). But no. I didn't even make
Other than sticking up the middle finger to the gods of capitalism, another reason for the NBY is that I have been unemployed the last few months. Not by choice. Prior job downsized and thus I was set free. I may have spiraled a little (it's always fun
No Buy Year
If I needed any reason to feel reassured that doing this self-indulgent project on the internet (despite being fully aware that no one will really read it), I just need to remember that it was the thought of crawling back here mere days, nay, hours after declaring that I was
No Buy Year
I suppose I ought to figure out what exactly a No Buy Year (NBY) looks like for me. There are those who are super serious when they say "no buy" and try to not buy anything for as long as possible. I mean, yes, sure, I could go
No Buy Year
Yesterday, I decided to start a No Buy Year. That is, a No Buy for an entire year, twelve months, ending next December 1, 2024. Not a No Buy for the rest of the year, ending in 31 days, because that would be ridiculous and easy. Ridiculously easy. Or so