I love this approach, and also saw Rachel Margaret’s video last month - an excellent watch and perfect compliment to your post! I’ve resisted No-Buys for some time, for many of the reasons you’ve outlined here, but ultimately decided to do one for the winter season. While there’s inherently restriction built in, I see it as a creative catalyst that is opening me up to more. Super curious about your Project 333 - look forward to reading!
Using cash has been really helpful with me in this area when I go to the thrift store. I’m also a proponent of moderation and feeling cash leave my hands helps me ensure I’m buying things that excite me.
I’ve been leaving a variation of this comment on several of my favourite writers’ Substacks, who are doing the no-buy challenge. i’ve done several of these over the last decade plus that I’ve been blocking, and I find I always end up with the “rubber band effect”, in which too much restriction results in a snapback where all restraint is thrown to the wind. Not to say this will happen for everyone, but anytime one overly restricts oneself, this is certainly a possibility.
Like you, Maureen, I do not set any kind of restrictions on my purchasing, trusting myself to buy things that I like and suit me. However, I still do get things wrong, and end up, passing them along or reselling them. 💕 i’ve learned not to be too harsh on myself when this happens, as it inevitably does.
I love this approach. I'm doing a low buy with a set number of items for 2025 in order to make more considered purchases. But I have struggled with the question of what to do if I truly need something - a real need, and not just an imagined need. Giving yourself permission to buy what you truly need seems in some way freeing. Because it can seem a bit silly to abstain from buying something you truly need just in order to meet some number. I might have to adjust my low buy rules as the year progress, we'll see how it goes.
Great point! - "My muscles of moderation will be strengthened more when I am allowing myself to buy some things." how can we practice moderation when we don't give ourselves the chance?
“…my main goal for 2025 is to seek evidence of my goodness” - could not love this more.
Subscribed right away. Love the message and how you share it. Excellent video. Thank you for this!
Yes, yes, and yes. Intuition is a muscle like all us and by working it, it will spill over into all areas of our lives! Such a smart choice for 2025!
I love this approach, and also saw Rachel Margaret’s video last month - an excellent watch and perfect compliment to your post! I’ve resisted No-Buys for some time, for many of the reasons you’ve outlined here, but ultimately decided to do one for the winter season. While there’s inherently restriction built in, I see it as a creative catalyst that is opening me up to more. Super curious about your Project 333 - look forward to reading!
Nice!! I hope the no-buy turns out to be exactly what you need right now!!
Using cash has been really helpful with me in this area when I go to the thrift store. I’m also a proponent of moderation and feeling cash leave my hands helps me ensure I’m buying things that excite me.
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I’ve been leaving a variation of this comment on several of my favourite writers’ Substacks, who are doing the no-buy challenge. i’ve done several of these over the last decade plus that I’ve been blocking, and I find I always end up with the “rubber band effect”, in which too much restriction results in a snapback where all restraint is thrown to the wind. Not to say this will happen for everyone, but anytime one overly restricts oneself, this is certainly a possibility.
Like you, Maureen, I do not set any kind of restrictions on my purchasing, trusting myself to buy things that I like and suit me. However, I still do get things wrong, and end up, passing them along or reselling them. 💕 i’ve learned not to be too harsh on myself when this happens, as it inevitably does.
I love this approach. I'm doing a low buy with a set number of items for 2025 in order to make more considered purchases. But I have struggled with the question of what to do if I truly need something - a real need, and not just an imagined need. Giving yourself permission to buy what you truly need seems in some way freeing. Because it can seem a bit silly to abstain from buying something you truly need just in order to meet some number. I might have to adjust my low buy rules as the year progress, we'll see how it goes.
I get it! And, give yourself time and space to know when there's something you really do need.
Great point! - "My muscles of moderation will be strengthened more when I am allowing myself to buy some things." how can we practice moderation when we don't give ourselves the chance?