#nobuychallenge

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The No Spent Year: Artist Edition

Presenting my no spending on art supplies year challenge.

So, I've realized that… maybe…. these last few years I’ve spent more time shopping for art supplies and courses than actually making art.

So, in May 2024, I have resolved not to buy any art supplies or Domestika courses this year. Not even to finish a project. Gasp.

The only exceptions are very basic things like running out of glue, scissors, or equipment needing replacement.

The Why: I have too many art supplies. I need to (really) declutter. I have not made much art for 2 years, and I want to learn who I am now as an artist, as opposed to the person I've transformed from in the last 14 years.

As I make more art, each piece will be valued (by me or my husband) from $1 to $20 in "credits," based on merit and context. These credits can be used to buy replacement art supplies once the year is over.

After that, I'm really not sure what's next. That's one of my fears: that I won't know what art supplies I truly need. Another fear is that the apocalypse would happen while I'm doing this challenge, and I won't have a store of art supplies. Seriously, that's one of the points in my mind I've used to justify the inordinate amount of art stuff I own.

Anywho, wish me luck. I hope this works.

[mumamsterdam-blog]

The biggest fashion trend right now is renting clothes. Fact. ✨ Het zal je niet ontgaan zijn dat kleding huren, the next big thing is. Of eigenlijk is het nu al een big thing. Wanneer je kleding huurt, draag je key pieces, probeer je trends uit en vernieuw je jouw look zonder kleding te kopen. Klinkt goed, toch?! Dat wil ik ook, dacht ik! Op mijn blog zie je een aantal key pieces die ik *gehuurd heb van Robin van @iconic_wardrobe.amsterdam. Prachtige items van duurzame merken. Ook heb een ik een YouTube video gemaakt waarin ik de nieuwste trends in mijn eigen kledingkast shop! Kleding huren en creatief omgaan met je kledingkast is niet alleen goed voor je portemonnee maar ook goed voor moeder aarde. 🌍 Link in mijn bio. Hoe denk jij over kleding huren? Is het the next big thing of een hype? Tell me!👇🏼 *Het gaat om een samenwerking. Ik wil daar graag transparant in zijn. ☺️ • • #keypieces#kledinghuren#kledinglenen#thenobuychallenge#nobuychallenge#minderconsumeren#koopminderdraagmeer#buylesschoosewell#buylessbuybetter#2dehands#secondhandfashion#slowfashion#dutchblogger#fashionblogger_nl#fashionmama#fashionatanyage#slowfashionmovement#slowfashionblogger#duurzamemode#shopyourcloset#koopgedrag#combinerenkanjeleren#duurzamekledingkast#mamaish#mamaishblog (bij Amsterdam, Netherlands) https://www.instagram.com/p/CM31VCsD27M/?igshid=fy74nok07q72

[thurisazsalail]

It is the second week of January, and I am not done building January's lists of things. So. As usual, I will not accomplish them. Hahaha... but I have been working hard on things that drain my energy with the fibro + EDS combo, like keeping the apartment minimally clean, getting some German studying done every day, keeping up taking care of mail and cats... I got some stickers as a reward. <3 My #nobuychallenge for this month is for notebooks and stationary. Class started today and I have so many old binders, folders, tab dividers, and notebooks that are old and partially used, I always want the fun of buying new (and a clean start!) But do I need a dozen half-used spiral notebooks? NO. In fact, I hate them! So I'm taking out all the paper and putting it in one binder. This month, I will inventory all office supplies and not buy more until I need them. What are you doing in 2020 for your #nobuy ? #nobuy2020 #nobuyyear #sustainability #sustainableliving #savings #ecofriendly #environmentalism #thrifty #nowaste #nowastelife #nowasteliving #lowincome #solutions #officesupplies #college #collegelife #bujo #bujo2020 #bulletjournal https://www.instagram.com/p/B7RLHPFJbml/?igshid=1lrw509wikm7i

[beautynbaseball]

I'm glad I am on a #NoBuy right now because I am actually tempted by this sale. MUST. STAY. STRONG. 💪🏼 #nobuychallenge #dontbuyallthethings @makeupjunky80 @project_pan1 You ladies keep me accountable!

[erinlearnstoadult]

A fresh leap into the world of adulthood

Aaannnndd I am back. After a failed attempt at starting this blog so many aeons ago, I have decided to leap back into the adulting world and blog about it. Just for shits and giggles. 

Now don’t you worry your little noggins. I haven’t reverted back to a complete state of childlike infancy. True, the immaturity is still there, but I have been doing some good things throughout 2016. 

Stopped going out every weekend, sometimes both Friday and Saturday nights. 

Bought a vegan cookbook, and have cooked multiple times from it. True, I only bought it because there were swear words in it and it used liquid smoke, but hey, I am cooking some damn good meals from it. 

I went a good 3 months completely booze free. 

I did a lot of yoga. 

Have gone back to a physio and am continuing to go. Still need to hammer down the knack of actually doing my exercises but baby steps. 

Am going to the dentist and hygenist regularly. Well have gone to the hygenist once, and got my full check up tonight with the dentist, but good intentions. My teeth already hurt. 

Paid off my credit card debt. (Just quietly may have put it all back on again trying to fill the hole in my soul over the last few months, with Trump and everything, but now I know it is possible).

So what does this mean for this year in the life of Erin. Well I have a few ideas for goals/intentions/areas of focus. And may come up with a few challenges throughout the year. My first challenge is the No Buy challenge. 

Why Erin, what is this No Buy challenge you refer to? Well I am glad you asked. Let me me give you the 411, break it on down. 

To counteract the needless spending I have been doing, trying to buy things to give my life meaning and solve all my issues, and issues of the world, I have decided to do the following:

Don’t buy anything new. 

Simple as that. But here are my clarifications:

Only replace what I use regularly and is required for day to day living. For example - shampoo, deodorant, toothpaste etc Cos you don’t want me smelly. 

If something runs out, or wears out such as jeans, if I don’t have a back up pair then I can replace it. However, perfume - I have many different perfumes so I will not need to replace them. 

Tea - we know that I have an obsession healthy love for tea. At least for buying it. I haven’t been so great at drinking it. So I will use this time to go through all my teas, use them up, and decide on the ones I love enough to continue stocking after the no buy challenge is up. I can’t see me running out of any before the time is up. 

I am going to do home made lunches, allowing one lunch a week to be purchased - most likely from the Central City Markets. Yum Dumplings. 

I am also going to do one paid fun thing  - such as dinner and a movie a week. There are plenty of fun free things to do out there. With the following exceptions:

My birthday weekend (10th to 13th of February)

Bruce Springsteen weekend (23rd to 27th of February). Going to play the tourist in Taupo and Rotorua. 

And the final aspect of this is to do it for one month. This feels like it is too short, but I also know that it will be a challenge for me. So if I am not near breaking point by the end of the month I may extend this challenge for another two months, doing a grand total of 3 months no buying. At the same time don’t want to set myself up to fail. 

Here are some of the other ideas that I have for future challenges so you can watch me suffer and read me moan and complain:

Cooking new dishes from all my saved articles on Facebook, Pinterest, and my cookbooks. 

No booze/limited booze - which on the d-low is going to be an all the time goal for me.

Yoga for 108 days. 

Meditation for 108 days.

But first things first lets get my obsessive spending under control and my finances sorted. Starting this Waitangi day (cos it ain’t right unless it starts on a Monday, and T2 have a new tea that I just have to buy), ending 6th of March (or possibly 6th of May!) Erin takes on the NO BUY CHALLENGE!

But first the dentist. eek. 

[thisfamilylifewelive]

𝙰 𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚙𝚕𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚍𝚊𝚢𝚜 𝚊𝚐𝚘, 𝙸 𝚠𝚊𝚜 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊 𝙳𝙼 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 @𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚖𝚘𝚖𝚑𝚊𝚌𝚔 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚌𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚔𝚒𝚍𝚜 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚢𝚛𝚘𝚘𝚖 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚘𝚠𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚘𝚞𝚝 "𝚋𝚛𝚘𝚔𝚎𝚗" 𝚝𝚘𝚢𝚜. 𝙰𝙺𝙰 𝟿𝟶% 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚢𝚛𝚘𝚘𝚖'𝚜 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚝. 🤦‍♀️⁠ ⁠ 𝙸𝚜𝚗'𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚜𝚞𝚌𝚑 𝚊 𝚠𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚎⁉️ ⁠ ⁠ 𝚃𝚑𝚊𝚝'𝚜 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚋𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚢 𝚑𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚍𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚍𝚘𝚕𝚕𝚊𝚛𝚜 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚝𝚑 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚘𝚢𝚜 𝚓𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚐𝚘𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚛𝚎𝚌𝚢𝚌𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚋𝚒𝚗 𝚘𝚛 𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚏𝚒𝚕𝚕. ⁠ ⁠ 𝚆𝚎'𝚟𝚎 𝚊𝚌𝚝𝚞𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚙𝚞𝚝 𝙺𝚊𝚎𝚍𝚎𝚗 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝙺𝚎𝚗𝚣𝚒𝚎 𝚘𝚗 𝚊 "𝚝𝚘𝚢" 𝚋𝚞𝚍𝚐𝚎𝚝. 𝙺𝚊𝚎𝚍𝚎𝚗 𝚒𝚜 𝚜𝚕𝚘𝚠𝚕𝚢 𝚐𝚛𝚊𝚜𝚙𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚏𝚊𝚌𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚝𝚘𝚢𝚜 𝚌𝚘𝚜𝚝 𝚖𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚢 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚖𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚢 𝚒𝚜 𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚍 𝚝𝚘 𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚗. 𝙺𝚎𝚗𝚣𝚒𝚎 𝚞𝚜𝚞𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚓𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚏𝚘𝚕𝚕𝚘𝚠𝚜 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝙺𝚊𝚎𝚍𝚎𝚗 𝚍𝚘𝚎𝚜. #𝙻𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚕𝚎𝙱𝚛𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛⁠ ⁠ 𝙳𝚘𝚗'𝚝 𝚐𝚎𝚝 𝚞𝚜 𝚠𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚐, 𝚠𝚎 𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚐𝚘 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚘𝚢 𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚎. 𝙱𝚞𝚝 𝚠𝚎 𝚓𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚢 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚜𝚊𝚖𝚙𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎. 𝙸𝚝'𝚜 𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚎𝚡𝚌𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚔𝚒𝚍𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚎𝚎 𝚗𝚎𝚠 𝚝𝚘𝚢𝚜. 𝙱𝚞𝚝 𝚊𝚏𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚑𝚊𝚕𝚏 𝚊𝚗 𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚘𝚏 𝚙𝚕𝚊𝚢𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢'𝚛𝚎 𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚒𝚝 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚒𝚕𝚢 𝚐𝚘 𝚑𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚎𝚖𝚙𝚝𝚢 𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚍. ⁠ ⁠ 𝙰𝚛𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚔𝚒𝚍𝚜 𝚊𝚕𝚜𝚘 𝚘𝚗 𝚊 #𝙽𝚘𝚃𝚘𝚢𝙱𝚞𝚢 #𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎𝚘𝚞𝚝❓⁠ ⁠ #YYCMoms #YYCMomBlog #MomBlogger #FamilyFinanceMentor #FamilyFinanceBlog #FamilyFinanceMom #NoBuyChallenge #InvestDontSpend — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/31RaiHu

[thedarkdivide]

Starting a #nobuychallenge! I’m going to try to use up everything I already own. Got a lot of skincare goodies I never bothered with. I also never really dress up since I live in sweats but I have SO many unworn dresses 😓 I don’t need new makeup anyways so the real challenge is to use the products I’ve collected that aren’t really my favorites lol Dress @forever21 #fbloggers #ootd #fashion

[mumamsterdam-blog]

Zo word je weer verliefd op je bestaande garderobe! ✨ Op mijn Insta Stories gaf bijna 60% aan een kast vol met kleding te hebben, maar niks om te dragen. Persoonlijk weet ik wel waar dit gevoel, bij mij vandaan komt. Ik heb veel kleding in mijn kast waarbij ik spark of joy mis. Hoe krijg ik dat terug? Ik heb een aantal dingen geprobeerd en het helpt! Op mijn blog vertel ik je hoe je weer verliefd kan worden op je bestaande garderobe. Link in mijn bio. Fijne dag! 🌼 • • #persoonlijkestijl#kledingstijl#sparkofjoy#mariekondo#thenobuychallenge#nobuychallenge#fashionstyle#slowfashion#styletip#colourblocking#printmixen#mixingprints#dutchblend#draagmeerkleur#draagmeerkoopminder#buylesschoosewell#secondhandbutgrand#mamaishblog#mamaish (bij Amsterdam west) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMwK9_lDqcO/?igshid=1g6zlxe50ipm2

[mumamsterdam-blog]

Yes it’s happening! In mijn YouTube video deel ik 20 dingen die ik niet meer koop. Van nagellak tot scheermesjes. En Ik vertel je waarom!😅 Zoals je weet, ben ik bezig met het verduurzamen van mijn kledingkast. Daarnaast ben ik ook mijn leven aan het verduurzamen. De laatste jaren heb ik interesse gekregen in het #minimalisme. Ik probeer te houden van de dingen die ik heb en daarmee tevreden te zijn. Een lesje in dankbaarheid, zal ik maar zeggen. Dus check mijn video. De link vind je in mijn bio. En laat me hieronder weten, welke dingen jij niet meer koopt. 👇🏼 Ik ben benieuwd! Fijne dag! • • #slowliving#slowlife#koopgedrag#koopminderdraagmeer#koopminder#dankbaar#dankbaarheid#innerlijkerust#koopiknietmeer#nietmeerkopen#lowbuy#lowbuy2020#nobuy#nobuyyear#nobuychallenge#nobuy2021#nobuyyear#nobuyyear2021#nederlandseblogger#nederlandsebloggers#nederlandseblog#mamaishblog#mamaish#minimalistlifestyle#minimalistwardrobe#minimalistlife (bij Bos En Lommer, Noord-Holland, Netherlands) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMT5ZVpjLX9/?igshid=1p85k1xupyntj

[mumamsterdam-blog]

Op mijn Insta Stories gaf 57% aan een kast vol met kleding te hebben, maar niks om te dragen. Persoonlijk weet ik wel waar dit gevoel, bij mij vandaan komt. Dit heeft te maken met het feit dat ik in een persoonlijke kledingstijl transitie zit. Hierdoor heb ik wel veel kleding in mijn kast waarbij ik spark of joy mis. Hoe krijg ik dat terug? Ik heb meer dan 4 ideeën gevonden! Deel ik met je op mijn blog. Link in mijn bio. • On my Insta Stories, 57% said they have a closet full of clothes, but nothing to wear. Personally, I know where this feeling comes from in me. This has to do with the fact that I am in a personal clothing style transition. Because of this I have a lot of clothes in my closet where I miss spark or joy. How do I get that back? I found more than 4 ideas! I share this with you on my blog. Link in my bio. • • #nieuwblog#nieuweblogpost#persoonlijkestijl#kledingstijl#sparkofjoy#mariekondo#thenobuychallenge#nobuychallenge#fashionstyle#slowfashion#styletip#colourblocking#printmixen#mixingprints#dutchblend#draagmeerkleur#draagmeerkoopminder#buylesschoosewell#secondhandbutgrand#mamaishblog#mamaish (bij Amsterdam-Centrum) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLeOfxzjeav/?igshid=ppxuddn80waw