The Year of Low Buy
I started out the year by doing what I should probably do every year, but never do… cleaning out my hoards. Every Christmas I am blessed with lovely gifts, and I always mean to go through my extra things and donate them. Then I never do. Hahaha. It’s one of the reasons why this year it was absolutely necessary. I sat down and went through piles of magazines, stacks of books, shelves of clothes, and came out the other side with a bunch of wonderful donation piles and plenty of space for the new things I had acquired. It was quite lovely!
Since then, I’ve been milling over how easy it is to keep buying things and just finding spaces for them. Books, especially, are (unsurprisingly) one of my biggest weakness. So I’ve decided that this year, the year 2022, will be a low buy year. A year where I borrow, rather than buy. A year when purchases require a swap in the form of a donation or a gift. A year where I’m extremely intentional.
So what does that mean? I’m holding myself to a 1 book a month purchase. If I don’t buy a book one month, it is allowed to roll over to the next! So essentially 12 books for the whole year. I can borrow from the library, or read books I own in my Kindle, or read books on my shelves, but all new book purchases must be 1 per month! I’m excited about this, and think it will be easy to accomplish.
What do you think, bookish friends? Is that something you could do?
Wish me luck!
