Nothing new for a year...

[drewan]

I just noticed this article on Startribune.com about a family which has joined a Compact to not buy anything new for a year.

Funny... I had been thinking of something similar for myself for this year. I was thinking of making a resolution or goal to not buy any big purchases in 2008. Nothing over $150, and this would include buying a bunch of cloths at one time.

I think I'm still going to attempt my goal to keep my shopping simple this year. Yes, this may mean no big gadget purchase this year. (Which is a brave statement one week before the Mac World Expo next week!) The exception would be travel tickets.

I'm making no promises this year, and I'm definitely not ready to join this "nothing new" Compact (I don't think I'm patient enough to buy used comics). But I recognize that I'm a consumer whore and I will change that in 2008.

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[jwg.livejournal.com]

One of the advantages of getting older is that you begin to seriously think of reverse accumulation. We really don't buy much stuff (yes I got a new iMac recently and upgrade my cell phone) and this year we're going to get LCD HDTVs (plural because we have two houses and don't like to move much stuff back and forth) and a new Tivo to match (baseball is much better that way as we are addicts). We buy essentially no books; and use the public library extensively.