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going on with me, my family and our shopping fast aka a year without shopping: I am still noticing the faded, worn and out of date things in my wardrobe, on my shoe rack and in my home.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...
Mar 29, 2018 | Year Without Shopping
An update on my year without shopping . . . The power cord conundrum So just some context for this story: My family has agreed to do the shopping fast with me for the first six months. I was standing in the kitchen talking to my family when a shiny new i-phone power...
Feb 23, 2018 | Year Without Shopping
My year without shopping has begun. When I brought the idea of not buying anything for a year to my family my twelve-year-old daughter literally said “this is the worst thing that has happened to me in my whole life . . .” She really likes shopping. Like a...
Jan 9, 2018 | Year Without Shopping
Happy new year. 2017 was . . . so many things. Full of change, turmoil, natural disaster, political upheaval. One thing about the turning of the calendar’s page is that it brings a sense of newness. The idea that we have a clean slate of sorts. Which is probably...
