Could YOU Survive a Whole Year Without Shopping????

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Only buying food & basic essentials?
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NO.WAY

No way! Not possible!

I suppose if someone said 'i will give you a million pounds if you dont shop for a year i would give it a damn good go! It would be tricky though.

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I think its revolting how people swear on this site.

As I hate shopping, it would not be a hardship.

You might have a scrummy ds but you are a freak sherlock.

I don't think it would be that hard as I buy huge amounts of stuff from eBay already

but I must admit I am not about to rush to find out. Having lived on benefits and a low wage for a looooong time, I do find being able to buy new things when I want to, a heady and enjoyable experience

Who's gonna miss buying candles and bathoil??

I applaud her resolve, but cannot see why DVD rental and wine is a staple of life!
She should get Sky and go teetotal!

Having read that again, I probably could. Books I could borrow from a friend, I could not live without a decent foundation. TBH

I would most miss buying:

clothes (buy lots second hand but oooooh, Topshop )

the occasional new book

shoes, I have trouble finding enough second hand shoes that fit well as I am a fussy beggar about shoes anyway

things for ds especially clothes of which I buy the vast majority new

NBG

I thank you.

I really hate shopping, the last time I bought clothes was last August, I bought two pairs of jeans.

Not sure whether that should be or

Ok well take that shopping experience and do it every month.

It feels soooo good

Apart from adult shoes...

probably.

No. I am a shopaholic.

(I am just and "olic" actually - olic to everything - food, drink, shopping, books, magazines, MN)

yes

I get paid 4 times a year and so I do have months when I live like this - not sure I could go a whole year TBH.

Buying a new iron - well it makes sense to me, as long as the old one has died. Or she will be in the same position in another couple of months when the one she was given dies.

She's given up shopping but has a cleaner

Don't think it would be too hard at all, it's sort of what we are doing to get rid of our credit cards this year.

But unlike her, I did get rid of the cleaner

I rarely buy things on the "forbidden"list anyway.
It probably wouldn't make a huge difference to my life.
I do buy new childrens clothes as they get bigger it seems harder to get secondhand

never in a million years (plus, as i like to tell dh, it's an outing for ds...gets him used to other people )

If they added "second hand from a car boot sale" and "items passed on from friends" to the allowed list rather than only allowing ebay, freecycle and charity shops, then probably. Oh and printer toner/paper (but does that comes under work essentials?) But to compensate we wouldn't need video and dvd hire, or even newpapers (they almost all have online editons anyway).

We really don't buy much from their forbidden list as it is (both work full time, don't have a lot of spare time for shopping).

I'd be more impressed with the Ebay thing if they sold clothes to the same value (ie it wasn't costing them anything).

Oooh sherlock, a girl after my own heart

I read the article and thought - well we live like that all the time!!! I have never taken my kids to the toy shop to buy something "just because" - never had the money!

I have bought one or two things for myself this year (ie over the last 12 months) - but they are maternity things mostly, and one pair of shoes as my other pair fell to bits (yes, I only own two pairs of shoes and a pair of sandals!). Don't wear makeup. I get all the kids clothes secondhand. Don't buy magazines. Use freecycle a lot. We do a lot of bartering too - dh fixes computers in exchange for fresh salmon (we live by a salmon farm); I babysat a friend's daughter in exchange for her dh coming round with his chainsaw and cutting down some overgrown bushes ... once you get into that mindset it's really easy, no hardship for us at all

We already only buy what we really need.I don't buy new clothes or shoes unless something has worn out & even then they are often secondhand.I don't buy books,but use the library instead,don't buy magazines or buy makeup,unless I have run out of something.

I'd love to not have to use supermarkets at all too.

I have phases for this but do find it hard to get clothes from charity shops as as short and don't have much in the shops to start with (and Oxfam is actually dear than clothes shops )