Life | No Spend April

I would be lying if I said that I have been sticking to my weekly allowance. But who wouldn’t go crazy in a new city in a new country that has a plethora of shopping destinations after having your only shopping destination as post apocalypse/earthquake Christchurch. And because of this I have been prompted to take an experiment. I am going to see if I can go spending free for the whole month of April, with the excepting that it is going to come out on my birthday for a drink, or two. Or four.

In today’s society we are obsessed with getting new things. And they don’t have to be directly ‘off the shelf’ new, but rather just new to our hot little hands. We buy second hand clothes from boutique stores and say, ‘oh I am saving my precious money that I earned by being paid 1¢ above minimum wage’, but when you think about it, we really are spending the same amount of money because after a piece of clothing is so old it is labeled ‘vintage’ meaning we want it more and the price just skyrockets. It doesn’t really matter how shitty it is made or how god damn ugly it is. The price makes us want it.

This is going to be tough for me. I am a self confessed shopaholic. I LOVE SPENDING. I love pretty things.  I am like a magpie and I love anything that has even the slightest hint of glitter or studs. YUUUUMMY.

I am 100% do not need 99.99999999% of the things that I buy.

So my eftpos card is safely locked away and put in a place that is near impossible to reach with my 5’4” frame.

This is going to be so hard. But you know what, like my mother, I LOVE A CHALLENGE.

(and yes I do in fact know that it is now the 2^nd of April and I am technically putting this up ‘late’, but all of yesterday I spent being in transit on my way back from New Zealand (the HomeLand) to Australia (le Stud3yLand). So there.)