As some may remember, I embarked on another Low/No Buy journey at the beginning of the year, with varied success. Going strong in January and parts of February, I fell back into old habits — buying a ton of books — in late February and early March, in part because of being stressed out about
For a lack of creativity, this headline at least gets straight to the point… How was my first NO BUY month in 2022? Well… it went GREAT! At the end of the month, I still had a decent amount of money left! Alas, this will not go into my savings account (for now) but pay
As you may know by now, I'm a fan of grand gestures — at least when I have to start something new that might not be that easy for me. Back in early July, I wrote about wanting to start another Low Buy because I hadn’t reached my savings goal yet. Spoiler: Several months later
Die letzten Monate – genauer gesagt die letzten eineinhalb Jahre – hatten es in sich, höflich umschrieben. Ein regelmäßiges Auf und Ab von Infektionszahlen, Statistiken, Prognosen und die entsprechend bunte Fülle an alten/neuen Verordnungen haben unser aller Alltag bestimmt. Auch ich in meiner kleinen Introvert-Einzelgängerinnen-Blase bin all dem natürlich nicht entkommen. Einerseits genervt von FFP2-Masken
I've already written about life after Low Buy, so we know by now that it didn’t always work out as I wanted it to. Though I spent more money than I hoped I would, I mostly stuck to my wishlist and didn’t escalate. However, there is room for improvement. Now being early July, the first
Starting my Low Buy 2.0 on February 22, it may not exactly be halftime — my ADHD fuzzybrain has never been good with numbers and dates — but I thought it might be time to post a quick update on how my current low buy is going. As stated in my last post, the Covid-19
I’m so sorry — I owe you Low Buy updates for November AND December. I was deep down the rabbit hole of PhD/thesis work for the last few weeks and days of 2020, so I didn’t find the time and energy to write a proper blog post. My first draft is now finished (more or
This year went by so fast… In January, I was worried about how giving up 'retail therapy' would turn out. Now, 10 months in, I'm pleasantly surprised by how well it went. Granted, I had a few slip-ups, and not everything went according to plan, but overall I’m quite satisfied. Not the least compared to
The last few weeks were definitely not good for blogging — I’m sorry. I had a lot going on and time was flying by. Besides, I felt sick, spending my spare time napping and reading instead of doing something productive because I felt exhausted a lot. But hey, it’s nearly mid-October and I’m finally coming
Shopping is so ingrained in our psyche that it seems totally normal to ask myself what six months of shopping ban and low buy have taught me. Which is ridiculous since shopping as some sort of hobby is anything but 'normal', let alone ingrained in the human psyche. Competition — yes. The urge to outdo