No Buy? More like Low Buy

Yup, it happened. I broke. I bought a pair of shoes.

Which, if you know me, is kind of strange because I'm not really a big shoes person. But I have a bunch of sandals that are old and worn out, and I've been dying to have a pair of Birkenstocks for over a year now (which are obviously too spendy). So I think this longstanding want plus too much deprivation led to me ordering a nice pair of White Mountains (with a discount, of course).

It took me days to actually pull the trigger and buy them. I knew it was breaking the rules. But then I said, "to heck with it!" and here we are.

In my post about June's No Buy results, I mentioned that my friend who is doing this with me and I are really getting sick of this whole thing. We've been at it diligently for 6 months and even though we were both cruising along just fine for quite awhile, we've majorly hit a wall.

A big part of me wanted to say, "well, we did it for six months and that's already a big accomplishment so let's just quit now and be glad we made it as far as we did."

And yes, six months of a no buy is an accomplishment. But I still have a goal to reach and I know that if I don't have rules I will go off the rails. Just being budget conscious isn't enough because, believe me, I can justify spending money on a lot of stupid crap.

None of that stupid crap, though, is worth having to take out more loans down the road.

So, we adjust. My friend and I came up with a plan to have a $40 fun budget each month. $40 to spend on things that don't fit the rules of the no buy (which, I suppose, is now technically a low buy... but I digress). Honestly, $40 isn't much but my spending-deprived self has already come up with a hundred ways to spend that money.

For July, that money was my new shoes. Here's hoping they're worth it! 😆

Thanks for reading,
Olivia

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