At the start of 2022, I had taken no buy challenge for a few categories and had decided that I would buy nothing or very less of those items. Starting 2023 is a good time to review how I did with my challenge. Just penning it down here:
Max 5 clothes, no traditional wear – I had set limit of 5 clothes purchase maximum and I bought three – two jeans and one pant. Mainly I bought it because I have gained weight and I am not fitting in old pants anymore… I stayed true to ‘No saree or traditional wear’ oath.
No Art & craft material – I did buy one acrylic colour box for gifting purpose and that’s all. Gave away most of my art & craft material to interested people and I feel light now.
No notebooks and diaries – Bought one notebook for office purpose and that’s it. So I think I slipped a little but I am using the notebook everyday. I forgive myself.
No makeup items – I failed badly in following this. I got carried away by a sustainable brand sale and ended up buying two lipsticks and a foundation, which did not work out so well on me. I realised that I wasted the money and did not buy anything after that for almost 6 months.
Then again, I bought a makeup stick and a lipstick. Now I am also bought a set of three lip gloss second-hand (did not suit me 😔), so real purging in this stuff. I bought some self care products which I am happy for actually, using those everyday.
No furniture – This is another thing I missed. We bought a new house this year which was not in plan in January. So lot of making furniture and buying furniture happened. We tried to reduce buying furniture to the minimum and stocked to it. Frankly, I deterred from my goal here but no regrets.
No warm clothing/quilts – I did not buy any sweaters, woollens etc kind of stuff but I did buy quilts. With travel opening up and we buying a new house, many relatives visited us and we had around 7 people for a week staying with us. Frankly we were a little under-prepared for that. So we bought one quilt and that’s it.
No jewellery – I would not say this was 100% followed. I did buy one earring which I am using every day. Also, in our tradition, husbands has to give a gift to wife each Diwali. So for this Diwali I got my mangalsutra extended. So, these two long pending costly purchases.
No guitar accessories – This was my husband’s commitment. I think he did quite well here considering he did not buy anything extra as such.He did buy stands for monitor speakers and I am gifting him one practice amp, I guess that’s all.
So, that’s it! Some things I followed religiously while failed miserably at others, knowing or unknowingly.
I think I need a better system this year to constantly remind me not to buy things from my challenge category. Do you have any tips?
ecodhara 