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Excerpts from an inspiring essay titled: "What if You Did Not Buy a Single New Thing This Month or Even This Year??
There seems to be a growing awareness that you don’t need to — and, more importantly, shouldn’t — keep buying new shiny things all the time.
Some recent online challenges are aimed at reducing the number of things we buy, often referred to as ‘Low-Buy,’ ‘No-Spend’, or, most commonly, ‘No-Buy’ months or years.
The premise is pretty straightforward: abstain from buying any unnecessary new items — excluding essentials like groceries, medicine, toiletries, etc. — for the next twelve months. Or for just one month.
Buying things doesn’t make us better, happier, or more successful. Actually, it’s often quite the opposite: it clutters our homes, drains our savings accounts, and sometimes even creates consumer debt we struggle to pay off for years.
It’s easy to get caught up in a cycle of consumerism. But it’s not always easy to get out of it.
Adopting a ‘No-Buy’ challenge and restraining ourselves from buying unnecessary things for some time while re-assessing the items we already own seems like a good place to start.