During February of last year, I didn’t buy anything that wasn’t considered necessary – no to new clothes, no to new books, no to slices of cake in our local dog-friendly café.
I’ve just completed another Frugal February and I feel good about it. It’s been good practice to pause and actively consider whether a purchase is essential – most of the time, it hasn’t been. I’ve saved money, but what of the purchases that I did make …
Printer ink.
12×12 white cardstock.
6×4 photo printer paper.
(There’s a theme there, isn’t there?)
This jumper (with 15% off).
So while Fugal February can’t be considered an unqualified success, I was much more aware of the purchases I did make and paused first.
Well done & yes I saw the memory keeping theme … The world needs all of us to pause before purchasing. It’s because we haven’t that the business of decluttering is booming & mindful retreats are popular – IMO.
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You could be right – buying something has never been easier and we all have far too much stuff.
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I seemed to save a lot of money by not clicking on links in emails since the January sales! I’ve tried the tactic of putting things in a ‘shopping cart’ and then closing down the webpage. If, when I wake up the next day, I still want to buy it, I can go back and complete the sale but I honestly haven’t gone back to many pages to buy things!
Good to see that you have not denied yourself anything ‘essential’!
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I use the ‘save for later’ option quite a bit and then end up deleting those items months later. The jumper from Seasalt was purchased at the second attempt – I’d said no in the Circencester store on the Monday and succumbed in the Cambridge store on the Friday!
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Oh, yes, I do see a theme in those first three items!
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Haha, fancy that!
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