Well, I survived it. It's going to be a long, long month.
Who knew it'd be so hard? I don't consider myself materialistic, and I think of myelf as being "good with money", and proud of my frugal and groovy op shopping habits. What this is doing is really pointing out to me two things:
(1) that I buy more new stuff than I realised and
(2) I do a LOT more impulse buying than I realised.
I drove out to Spotlight in my lunch break yesterday to suss out polar fleece, thinking it'd be fun to make some of these rug thingies that you can buy from Ikea. How cute would it be with your own sweet designs cut along the edge? Turns out polar fleece costs a bit more than I thought it would, though. These cost about $5 from Ikea, and polar fleece (even the cheap unprinted non-premium stuff) costs about $8 a metre.
I drove back to work, despondent and defeated. I'd hoped it'd be a fun thing for me and my niece to do rather than another night of vegging out in front of dvds. Poor little thing, so much for me being the fun aunty, I've crashed with fatigue most days. I think that having someone at home noticing what I'm doing has made me more aware of what I'm doing - which isn't much these days.
Anyways, in short, the 4th of October brought me:
- a near-miss with Buy Nothing New - I drove out there but I didn't buy anything! Hooray!
- the realisation that I'm doing almost nothing creative these days
- an awareness that my fatigue issues may need addressing on a more formal level. Soon.
Overall, a success, I'd say ;)
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