How No-buy April is going
Apr. 14th, 2021 04:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
burendasan4So...I'm waiting for an MS Office update to install and trying to avoid websites that sell things so here I am.
My No-Buy April has been going well. I've been able to avoid buying unnecessary things but boy have I've been tempted a LOT. It has made me deal with those super-uncomfortable feelings and thoughts I get around not buying something that seems urgent at the moment. And sometimes those feelings are STRONG.
For example, last Saturday R and I went to an outdoor brunch get-together. It had been a while since I had been able to socialize with a group of people and...it felt great! I got talking to this one person who I hadn't seen in over a year and was really enjoying the conversation. I was really having a great time. Then I noticed that she was wearing this hoodie with a cute palm print on it. I asked her where she got it and she told me. After I got home, I went to the website and I just had this URGE to buy it. Had it not been for No-Buy April, I would have bought it right away. But no, I had to deal with that painful feeling of not getting it. My thought was: "This will be the *perfect* hoodie...just what you've been looking for! It's such a fun print! It'll liven up your plain wardrobe." So it got me thinking what it was that made me want that hoodie. And I think it's that I associated that hoodie with the good time I was having socializing and being out in the warm weather. The person who was wearing it has a fun personality and I guess I felt that wearing the hoodie would make me like her.
There are a bunch of other things that I've come across that I've gotten the urge to buy...
Anyway, the update is complete...that's all for now!
My No-Buy April has been going well. I've been able to avoid buying unnecessary things but boy have I've been tempted a LOT. It has made me deal with those super-uncomfortable feelings and thoughts I get around not buying something that seems urgent at the moment. And sometimes those feelings are STRONG.
For example, last Saturday R and I went to an outdoor brunch get-together. It had been a while since I had been able to socialize with a group of people and...it felt great! I got talking to this one person who I hadn't seen in over a year and was really enjoying the conversation. I was really having a great time. Then I noticed that she was wearing this hoodie with a cute palm print on it. I asked her where she got it and she told me. After I got home, I went to the website and I just had this URGE to buy it. Had it not been for No-Buy April, I would have bought it right away. But no, I had to deal with that painful feeling of not getting it. My thought was: "This will be the *perfect* hoodie...just what you've been looking for! It's such a fun print! It'll liven up your plain wardrobe." So it got me thinking what it was that made me want that hoodie. And I think it's that I associated that hoodie with the good time I was having socializing and being out in the warm weather. The person who was wearing it has a fun personality and I guess I felt that wearing the hoodie would make me like her.
There are a bunch of other things that I've come across that I've gotten the urge to buy...
Anyway, the update is complete...that's all for now!
