The thought of not buying anything new for a year started forming in my head somewhere around October 2021. I had just purchaded a felt hat I had wanted for ages. It was pretty expensive for a low income person such as myself, but I had saved up for it. I started counting all the things I had bought in a year and it wasn’t much. Would I be able to go for a year without buying anything? I made the decision to do a No Buy Year in 2022 in late December and immediately made this comic, so there’s no turning back!
Now that I’m writing this blog post it’s already May of 2022 and I have managed not to buy anything for 4½ months. It hasn’t really been that difficult and I have even managed to make comics about the process on the go!
No Buy Year begins, January feelings
In early February I made a longer comic that detailed more things I did in January.
In January I was worried I’d suddenly start cheating by buying more of the things I am allowing myself, but that was a weird fear for me to have. I had been buying very little things in the earlier years too! Why would I start buying things now?
In January I also didn’t yet really know what I wanted to do with my comics on the matter, but next year my ideas were clearer!
February and digital goods?
So how about March? Well, you either have to go read the comic on my Instagram right now or wait a bit so that I post the next batch of no buy year -comics here on my blog. This post is already getting pretty long as it is, so I’m going to spread the comics from January to April between two blog posts. After that I will be updating my blog alongside with my social media.
Oh and if you read Finnish, I suggest you go read the whole thing on maansatama.com blog! The same comics are available there in Finnish!