Shopping and list-making are fair game as responses to the anxieties of the last month ! I make the suggestions below only in case a shift of perspective is helpful :
- Are you being a little hard on yourself ? If a change of size and climate doesn’t warrant updating your wardrobe with more suitable clothes, then what does ?
- Are you already optimising all other aspects of energy consumption before beating yourself up over 2 or 3 new garments ? Think air conditioning/ heating, transport, recycling, reducing waste, buying locally ?
- Would redirecting your interest in style to crafting or making scratch the itch currently addressed by impulse shopping ? Learning to knit for example, a long engaging rabbit hole to explore ?
Thanks for sharing your perspectives -- it’s always helpful to not get too stuck in my thoughts. I think your third point is kinda of the goal of this challenge: can I avoid turning to shopping as a response to things (stress, reward etc), as I find it unsustainable? And I think I’ll get there if I reflect on how I shop and develop other interests.
I’m actually quite pleased my shopping choices this year -- to be warmly clad but also feel stylish is very satisfying.
Shopping and list-making are fair game as responses to the anxieties of the last month ! I make the suggestions below only in case a shift of perspective is helpful :
- Are you being a little hard on yourself ? If a change of size and climate doesn’t warrant updating your wardrobe with more suitable clothes, then what does ?
- Are you already optimising all other aspects of energy consumption before beating yourself up over 2 or 3 new garments ? Think air conditioning/ heating, transport, recycling, reducing waste, buying locally ?
- Would redirecting your interest in style to crafting or making scratch the itch currently addressed by impulse shopping ? Learning to knit for example, a long engaging rabbit hole to explore ?
Thanks for sharing your perspectives -- it’s always helpful to not get too stuck in my thoughts. I think your third point is kinda of the goal of this challenge: can I avoid turning to shopping as a response to things (stress, reward etc), as I find it unsustainable? And I think I’ll get there if I reflect on how I shop and develop other interests.
I’m actually quite pleased my shopping choices this year -- to be warmly clad but also feel stylish is very satisfying.