Good luck with your low buy project! I have also recognized the tyranny of unlimited options afforded by the Internet and have started to become disenchanted by online shopping experiences. Embracing finitude and making more of my transactions in the “analog” world are among my goals for 2025.
Yes! In-person shopping only is a great constraint to make for yourself, especially when you know you don't need anything and just want to make occasional fun purchases. It feels like opening yourself to what destiny has to offer. Good luck to you!
I need to create a shortcut on my phone that forces me to reread all my mantras before I can make an online purchase with my credit card. Ha ha. Thanks for reading!
Good luck with your low buy project! I have also recognized the tyranny of unlimited options afforded by the Internet and have started to become disenchanted by online shopping experiences. Embracing finitude and making more of my transactions in the “analog” world are among my goals for 2025.
Tyranny and disenchantment are such great words to describe the experience of frequent online shopping. Thank you and good luck to you!
I love your rules. I also have an online second-hand scrolling problem. If Im on my phone (and not on substack reading), thats what Im doing.
For 2025, I am going to only shop “in person.”
Excluding undergarments, replacements, etc.
I feel like the time commitment to going out to shop/thrift with little kids/ during childcare will prevent me from overbuying.
I think when you’re in a shop in your town you end up looking more unique anyways- the constraint is what is THERE
Yes! In-person shopping only is a great constraint to make for yourself, especially when you know you don't need anything and just want to make occasional fun purchases. It feels like opening yourself to what destiny has to offer. Good luck to you!
I love this so much especially your mantras! Thank you for sharing and good luck with this new project!
I need to create a shortcut on my phone that forces me to reread all my mantras before I can make an online purchase with my credit card. Ha ha. Thanks for reading!
I’m saving them in my own journal! They’re so good!
I’m so in love with this post I love the mantras it’s so true 100 percent . They really hold true to dat -
Being only you is what personal style is about