New Year’s Challenge: No Shop January

Who’s up for a challenge to kick off 2024?

Let’s do a No Shop January challenge together!

I know, I’ve got your attention now, right? 😉

With shopping apps and wish lists, it’s become way too easy to simply add something to your cart and check out. Immediate gratification is amazing, but too often don’t we buy crap that we forget about shortly afterwards and no longer care about?

While you can tailor the rules to whatever works best for you, let’s limit those unnecessary, impulse buys this month and focus on only shopping for essentials like:

• Food
• Health-related items like vitamins, supplements, etc
• Personal care products
• Clothes, only if items have been torn, outgrown or not yet bought for the season (i.e. winter clothing, footwear and accessories since we may actually get snow this weekend!)

So, here’s to helping our wallets, closets and landfills with more intentional shopping and hoping this challenge holds us more accountable for the things we actually need – and it also forces us to focus more on what brings us joy and investing in long-term quality and happiness!