3. How A No-Buy Altered My Brain Chemistry

I've made it over halfway through the "nothing new" challenge I set for myself at the beginning of this year! In today's podcast, I'm talking successes, struggles, my reformed relationship to consumption, and what these last few months of this challenge may hold. Not only has only buying secondhand seriously slowed my consumption, I feel in control of my spending and have been able to hit and make progress on ambitious financial goals I set for myself. I hope this episode inspires you to try a secondhand-only week, month, quarter, or even rest of the year!

skip to the good stuff:

00:00 what sparked a no-buy

5:42 rules around consumption

8:15 general reflections on my relationship w /consumption

17:50 ways I’ve avoided buying new/been resourceful

21:32 ways I did buy new…

33:05 going forward with a no buy challenge