Tag: quitting shopping
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Happy New Year!
Throughout 2023 “my secondhand year,” I kept a running document of “MSY blog post ideas,” most of which I fleshed out into actual posts and published. But a couple never made it past the idea stage — one of which said simply, “What’s my why?” I guess I never wrote that post because that question…
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(Finally) Realizing What I Don’t Need
Apparently, 50-plus years of life are not enough. Nope. I needed 50-plus years of life (maybe 40 years of shopping?) AND a year of not shopping to realize that I don’t really need the things I think I need. I can hear myself in years past: “I need some new black pants.” “I really need…
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Must Autumn Vibes Equal New Clothes?
I know it’s been a while since I last posted (and I’m sure you’ve all been checking your inbox impatiently every day for weeks now), and that’s because I didn’t want to get repetitive in terms of what I write about here. I mean you can only pontificate about the scourge that is overconsumption, especially…
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Actually, Every Day Is NOT Christmas
During Covid, when we had really ramped up our online purchasing (hello Drizzly!), we had a joke in our family that every day was like Christmas. One of us would open the front door to behold the stoop stacked with packages and proclaim, “Merry Christmas!” (We were clearly on edge like the rest of the…
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Cheap Clothes and Why They Aren’t
Do you remember what you wore in college? Even though it was eons ago, I do: Guess jeans, bright-colored Esprit sweaters, K-Swiss sneakers, and a navy peacoat over everything. Every once in a while, I would mix it up and wear my crewneck “college” sweatshirt over a turtleneck. The peacoat was purchased at the Army-Navy…
My Secondhand Year 