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(Originally posted at pilgrim_eye:)
...to not buy anything new in 2008.
We're still working on this one. Obviously, personal items (toothbrush, underwear) and consumables (kielbasa, hot cocoa) are exempt. But almost everything else we can think of -- appliances, home projects, utensils, clothes, tools, music, movies, etc. -- can be homemade, rented, improvised, bought used, bartered, free-cycled, or simply done without.
Computer gear and books are two areas where we treat ourselves, and bear further study.
The main reason for this (for me) is not to save money per se; it's to foster a culture (of one, or two) where every material desire is examined from the standpoint of global worth. What are the true originating costs? The true long-term costs? It's unnecessary and wasteful, not to mention out-of-balance, to fulfill trifling conveniences with new things that consumed non-renewable resources and poisoned the earth during manufacture, and that will end up in a landfill.
...to not buy anything new in 2008.
We're still working on this one. Obviously, personal items (toothbrush, underwear) and consumables (kielbasa, hot cocoa) are exempt. But almost everything else we can think of -- appliances, home projects, utensils, clothes, tools, music, movies, etc. -- can be homemade, rented, improvised, bought used, bartered, free-cycled, or simply done without.
Computer gear and books are two areas where we treat ourselves, and bear further study.
The main reason for this (for me) is not to save money per se; it's to foster a culture (of one, or two) where every material desire is examined from the standpoint of global worth. What are the true originating costs? The true long-term costs? It's unnecessary and wasteful, not to mention out-of-balance, to fulfill trifling conveniences with new things that consumed non-renewable resources and poisoned the earth during manufacture, and that will end up in a landfill.
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