stop shopping

Like I wrote before: this was pretty easy.
Not going shopping means no breaking your head over all sorts of choices you have to make (do I want these or these jeans, this color or that one, what size fits best?). How relaxing is that?

Boy, this is so easy! 2 more days, not a problem! I thougt it would be much harder. But because it makes life so much easier (no more breaking my head over what to buy, simply because I’m not buying anything, so I don’t have to make any choice at all) I kind of like it more than I imagined, thus making it easy!

Dammit… Someone pointed out to me that the new book by Hello Sandwich is on sale now, signed and with free shipping. This was on my shoppinglist for a while now, and this was an opportunity I didn’t want to miss… So I’ve sort of cheated on the first day already. Ok, so I feel really bad about it, but I must not give up so soon. No-shopping-month starts NOW!

Apparently I already completed this goal once (but I forgot about it), now it’s time to do it again.
No shopping for a whole month. Well, I can buy groceries and necessities for my freelance work of course. But no clothes, shoes, or anything I don’t need.
I’m starting this one on August 18th (since I actually went shopping today…) and will finish this on September 17th.

Bought a sweater yesterday, which I totally did not need.
Damn.
Now I have to prolong this month of non-shopping. New goal: no shopping till my trip to Ibiza next month.

Geez, I thought it was so easy, and then commercialism (‘buy me, buy me, even though you don’t need me!’) gets hold of me. Kinda bummed I couldn’t hold on for a few more days, then I would’ve made it.

(Ps. the only thing I’m really allowed to buy this months are sunglasses, for my trip to Ibiza and my trip to Indonesia. But that’s something I actually really do need.)

Ok so I bought a limited edition Hello Kitty doll today. Why? Well I was at the opening of the Hello Kitty Hello Holland exhibition and they made these dolls especially for the exhibition. And they were so cute with their Dutch outfits and their clogs, I just thought it was nice to have one. Don’t need it at all, obviously, just thought it was a nice thing to have.
So did I screw up my goal? Well, technically, I didn’t go shopping. I just bought something fun to keep as a reminder. Ok, so no, I didn’t screw up. Phew! :-)

This is going well. It’s actually quite easy to just NOT go shopping. I guess that makes it very clear that I don’t really need to go shopping all the time.
Ok well I did buy a new lens for my camera, but that’s not shopping, that’s just something I had been needing for a very long time. It’s more of an investment than something I went shopping for.

OK, it’s not like I have to stop shopping for, like, forever! But I’m been buying a LOT of things lately, and I think it’s time to stop for now. At least for a month. And I’m not talking about groceries obviously. I just need to stop buying clothes and shoes, I have enough of them, I really don’t need anymore, I just have to start wearing everything I have.
So I must stop buying online (it’s so tempting though, it’s too easy to shop from home) and stop going to the real-life stores. And the silly thing is, I honestly know I don’t need all the stuff I’m buying. It’s just that I think ‘oh you know what, I’d love to have a striped shirt’ and then I go out and buy one (and then one other thing I see in the store), even though I have plenty of other shirts to wear.

So, as of now, I won’t be shopping for a month. Yes. A whole month!! (And after that we’ll see if I’ve kicked my addiction enough, or that I need to prolong the period.)