purplerabbits

I don't know entirely why I get the desire to do incredibily frugal things for a lark, but at the start of the year I resolved to only buy eleven new things this year (not including food, cleaning products, medicine etc). I reported on it back in June when it was going well - well -ish. Now I am nearly at the end of November and someone asked me how it was going (what with the poverty eating).

Um, not quite so well.

This year I have bought:

1. New and shiny phone of joy (if I count all the trimmings as one thing it keeps my numbers down, but technically I bought the bluetooth headset separately)
2. Nail varnish
3. A spork
4. Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
5. An awesome reclining leather armchair from Habitat cos it was cheap and RED dammit
6. My excessively posh knitting needle set
7. A very nice and cheap peacock brooch which I love
8. A pendant watch that's an owl which I totally don't need
9. Risk by Dan Gardner, which I highly recommend
10. The new Terry Pratchett Book cos I felt I kinda had to
11. Some yarn - yes, yes I know, but I did turn it into a very lovely shawl

In addition to this there are some shoes which, while I made a sort of exception for shoes, really don't count cos they're not especially practical. I mean I can count the sensible black work shoes as essential, but not the purple suede with heels...

So that's sort of 12, or 13, or 14 things, ish. And that's not counting the hair things from charity shops which are actually 'new stock' Not an unqualified success, but certainly an improvement on the previous year. I'm obviously not going to make it to the end of the year without buying anything else, but I will try to keep track of what I buy till then, just to see how far out I am...