Feb 6, 2019 | Year Without Shopping
One month post-shopping fast and I have been reflecting on what I learned, how I’ve changed and what I want to do differently in the future. I made my first purchase just a few days ago. Initially I thought on January 1st I would be rushing out to buy...
Oct 17, 2018 | Year Without Shopping
Month #10 of my shopping fast! Fall is my favorite season. The smells, the colors of the trees. The way it’s cool in the morning and evening but warm during the day. I love the foods that emerge this time of year too – soups and stews, hot chocolate and although I am...
Aug 31, 2018 | Year Without Shopping
I am in month 8 of this no new stuff, no shopping, fasting of things thing. In some ways it has been far easier than I thought it would be. I have never been a real shopper so I have not missed it for its own sake. I have a ton more stuff than I need anyway so any...
Jul 25, 2018 | Year Without Shopping
I have passed the halfway point in my yearlong shopping fast. My family has completed theirs (they signed on to join me for the 1st six months). So as we reached the end of their fast (for which they had a countdown) I asked my girls, who are 8 and 12 respectively,...
Jun 12, 2018 | Year Without Shopping
On Waste and wasting: Today is trash day on my street. I look at the heaps of waste we all push to the edge of our yards for the trucks to haul away next to blue boxes piled high with recycling and I think about how very much we throw away. How much I have thrown...
May 2, 2018 | Year Without Shopping
Here is what’s been going on with me, my family and our shopping fast aka a year without shopping: I am still noticing the faded, worn and out of date things in my wardrobe, on my shoe rack and in my home. I wonder as I do if I notice more because I cannot replace...
