12 things for 2012
Updated each month (ish)
We’re only buying one non-consumable a month, between us, and i thought it’d be good to keep a list of the things we buy, and whether we actually succeed!
jan - rich bought a sausage maker! an attachment for the amazing kenwood chef we got given by grandma chicken, it only cost £6 but somehow because we’d thought and chosen it as our month’s purchase i think we valued it more.
feb - rich needed new shoes, that was easy
march - we decided it was my turn this month, not that it’s going to work like that but i think rich felt bad that he’d had 2 things! i think i need to buy maternity clothes, but im loathed to use my one purchase on them! i think if we’d not been doing this i’d have just gone on ebay and got some cheap 2nd hand ones, but that’s kind of perpetuating the consumer/throw away culture, i wouldn’t have valued them because they were cheap and easy to get. hmmm…interesting.
SO i hadn’t decided what to get, and then i was in boots thinking about a nail buffer (not exciting). instead of deciding it would be my purchase that month i saw one that was only £2 and bought it, on impulse, and didn’t intend to tell anyone about it. it was cheap, easy to buy, disposable in a way because i probably wouldn’t have cared if i lost it. all things we were trying to avoid this year. i probably wouldn’t have thought much more about it, except for maybe a little pang of guilt when i used it, except that night a friend brought me a belated birthday present. guess what…
a lovely body shop nail buffer!
gutted.com
it really challenged me, i was more gutted that i’d just caved and bought something for the sake of it, when i was given the same item that had obviously been bought with thought and love.
i’ve not decided whether or not that counts as my month’s purchase, rich says it doesn’t need to but i can’t help thinking maybe it would remind me to be more careful in future…..? what do you think?
*update* I bought materntity/feeding bras for this month. Still feel guilty every time I do my nails though!
april - my boots have holes in :-( not owning a car and being subject to april showers means new boots are a bit of a necessity. We got some really good ones from clarks with a “sensible” heel (just right for school!?) which can be re-heeled, mainly because I walk so funny my shoes always wear down, so hopefully these will last for ever if I keep re-heeling them. I think the Timpson man will become my new best friend!! I wonder if they do a loyalty card….?
also in april…. we planned to get charlie a present when the baby was born, and because of his current obsession with trains and the fact we’ve chosen the name Toby, we were going for a Brio Toby Tram. We stayed with some friends from home a couple of weeks ago, and what did they give him?? A Toby Tram! SO lovely, it’s one from when their kids were small, he’s all battered, and they knew about the baby being called Toby so it’s even more special :-) I bet I would have already bought one if I hadn’t been waiting for May to come….and it wouldn’t have been anywhere near as special.
:-)
