new year's challenge
Happy new year!
It's been a while since my last post, but I'm hoping to change that this year. For some time now I've had an idea and today, I guess, is a good a day to start my self-imposed mission/challenge/whatever as any.
The challenge:
To not buy anything new for 6 months. Or, to be more specific: to buy everything secondhand or make it myself. No new stuff. Also, I plan on growing some of my own food(obviously I'm not going to stop buying food entirely: I live in a small apartment and could never produce enough food to live off) and try to buy more from local farmers.
The reason? I want to prove a point. Perhaps to myself most of all. I've noticed that I like shopping entirely to much, like it's built in and I'm programmed to shop. Screw that, I have enough stuff, more than I need actually, so instead of just buying buyin buying I'm going to try making do with the stuff I have. Or, as the dutch would call it: 'consuminderen'.
which means:
-altering clothes I no longer wear into something else (either a new piece of clothing or something else useful)
-trading stuff I no longer need, use or want for stuf I do need, use or want
there is of course one snag: crafting supplies. In order to alter clothes I'm occasionally going to need new thread, yarn, among other things that you just can't easly get secondhand. So I'm going to be making exceptions for some things.
So that's my plan.
Here goes....
It's been a while since my last post, but I'm hoping to change that this year. For some time now I've had an idea and today, I guess, is a good a day to start my self-imposed mission/challenge/whatever as any.
The challenge:
To not buy anything new for 6 months. Or, to be more specific: to buy everything secondhand or make it myself. No new stuff. Also, I plan on growing some of my own food(obviously I'm not going to stop buying food entirely: I live in a small apartment and could never produce enough food to live off) and try to buy more from local farmers.
The reason? I want to prove a point. Perhaps to myself most of all. I've noticed that I like shopping entirely to much, like it's built in and I'm programmed to shop. Screw that, I have enough stuff, more than I need actually, so instead of just buying buyin buying I'm going to try making do with the stuff I have. Or, as the dutch would call it: 'consuminderen'.
which means:
-altering clothes I no longer wear into something else (either a new piece of clothing or something else useful)
-trading stuff I no longer need, use or want for stuf I do need, use or want
there is of course one snag: crafting supplies. In order to alter clothes I'm occasionally going to need new thread, yarn, among other things that you just can't easly get secondhand. So I'm going to be making exceptions for some things.
So that's my plan.
Here goes....