30 Day "No Buy" Challenge!

Challenge Yourself to a 30 Day Consumer Detox!

About this Challenge: 

This 30 day “no buy” challenge is all about learning to shop with intestion to help you get to the point where you are only buying things you truly need, that you have thought about, and that sparks joy or add value to your life. This is all about creating awareness around shopping in this consumer society that we live in. We are constantly being bombarded with messages that make us feel as though we are lacking something and that the only way to counter this feeling is to buy into the product being advertised. In reality, we live in an immense amount of abundance! Minimalism itself is about living with the awareness for all of the material things we have and buying with intention; each and everything you own is important to you and it adds value in some form to your life. There is no way to no be part of this consumer system, but we can learn to be conscious of the messages and how we respond to them.

Minimalism can partly be about decluttering (which I obviously LOVE) but it’s also important to look at how you deal with purchasing and consuming once you have decluttered and started taking on more of a minimalist mindset. And that can be super hard to do when we live in a society that does all it can to make us feel shitty and “less than” so that they can build us back up again with their products. It's important to differentiate between the things that we are told we need to buy and that truly have meaning to us, that we buy with intention.

Each week will be focused on a different topic of things we buy and spend money one. A few of these include clothing, food, and entertainment. Additionally, I will also discuss topics such as impulse buying and ways of dealing with it, as well as a bit of decluttering along the way! 

Rules: 

• Don't buy anything for yourself that is not crucial to your day to day survival 
• Yes, food and drink are necessities, but they are included to a certain extent because not all of it is always necessary 
• Categories to not purchase from in the next 30 days: clothes, kitchen supplies, house decor, sneakers/shoes, jewelry, hats, notebooks, etc. The list can go on.  
• Follow and partake in the weekly challenge categories by posting a relating picture and hashtagging it with #30daynobuychallenge.  
• Technically, you can buy whatever you want through these 30 days... you can always justify it as "absolutely necessary"; I can't check what you are buying and will never know. But this is really about you. You should choose to do this challenge because you want to become more aware of this phenomenon of the need for stuff and you want to shop more intentionally. So you have to be the judge of what is an absolute necessity during this challenge. 

Purpose: 

• Intentional buying. This challenge will help build awareness about the amounts of stuff you are buying and their true importance so that you can consume less and for the right reason you do buy things in the future. 
• Consumer messages squashed. Re-appreciating and realizing the abundance that you already have will make it harder for consumer messages of "lacking" to get to you because you are happy with what you already have.

 
Join me in this challenge to kickstart intentional buying!