At the end of November I made a pledge not to buy myself anything new for a month. After a week I was going strong and I made it through most of December without buying myself anything. I do have a confession, between the Christmas and New Year period I did buy myself a new handbag, this was a Christmas present so I didn't use my own money, so I am going to class it as a Christmas present.
So technically I fulfilled my pledge!! However since I finished the pledge I have binged a little bit with shopping, including some underwear and a dress, however this was all using Christmas money. At the start of the pledge I was really struggling, I would be browsing on ebay and didn't dare going into shops because I thought I would easily break my pledge.
Now I am struggling to shop! At the weekend I went shopping two days in a row and bought one dress, and i'm not even that fussed by it, I think it was more of an impulse buy because I could and I can't return it because it was a sale item.
This pledge has helped my bank balance a lot, normally in the January sales I would have bought myself a new wardrobe but this year I have been very limited. I recommend that people stop shopping for a month and see the results.
In the mean time check out who is doing 12 months of not shopping in this blog.
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