This is a great thread, and I think it's the inspiration I need to at least write down some of goals for 2021, which in turn will keep me accountable.
1. I will not purchase anything through
Amazon.com. I started this about a month ago, when I realized how lazy I had become in relying on
Amazon for simple purchases, and then in turn discovering how little Amazon gives back to its workers, communities, the world in general. Going forward, if I need a new book to read, I will source it through the independent book shop not far from my home. Realistically, I can afford the extra $5.00 to $10.00 or so it will cost versus buying the book on discount online. If I need home goods or cleaning supplies, I will buy them locally through the large national grocery store and the smaller local houseware stores or my local or national hardware store (no Home Depot anymore either since they are a foreign retailer where I live).
2. Make fitness and weight loss my new obsession. I have a milestone birthday coming up in 2021, that I would love to be at my healthiest for. I also have a closet full of clothes that I love, which are currently too tight. After training for an Olympic-distance triathlon in 2016, I was exhausted from the time commitment it required, and I easily gave it up. Over the 4 years that followed, my weight began to creep up. How strange it is to gain weight, when I'm not working out 2 hours a day, 6 days a week?
Time to make fitness and healthy eating a priority again (just maybe not at the same level of intensity it was a few years ago)
3. I've been very good at keeping my purse collection at 10 bags for the past several years. In December 2020, I purchased a holy grail of sorts that I had been hunting for since 2013-2014. I also rather impulsively purchased another bag at the same time, that I had not planned for. It was a style that had been discontinued, but that I had only discovered rather belatedly. I do love it though, and I have no regrets about either purchase. Once the new purchases arrived, I took 2 older bags that were my least favourite, due to color and size, to the luxury consignment shop. I never look at my purse spending as a loss when I sell / consign bags that no longer work for me. I see whatever I make on the sale (be it small or large) as a gain to me. It's physical, tangible currency now in my hands, versus some airy fairy notion of worth that exists only in the ether. I found a few other things to consign as well, so in the end it was 2 new purses in, AND 2 purses, 1 wallet, a necklace, a ring, a cardholder, and 2 watches out.
4. I'd like to completely eliminate buying any more home organizing products. At the end of 2020, my fridge, pantry, vanity, basement, and closet are now completely organized and I've spent far more on bins and containers to corral my vegetables, crackers, pasta, makeup, Christmas decoration, and shoes, than I did on anything else this year. No.More.Containers!
5. Accessory and purse goals for 2021. I'd like to add a new wallet sometime in the second half of 2021. I've been rotating between a
Gucci brown guccissima (circa 2008), and 2 mulberry tree wallets (circa 2016) for the past several years. I love the colours and styles (they are each a little different), but I would like to add something new for 2021. Perhaps a Bottega Veneta in a bright colour (I'm not that familiar with the new designer - so this may be a pipe dream as I'm picturing Bottega Veneta wallet from a few years ago). Speaking of Bottega Veneta, I'm on the hunt for a extended knot clutch in a jewel-tone satin. I'm not aggressively searching, but if I were to come across one in very good condition, I think it would be my only purse purchase for 2021.
*Whew* that's a long post. Sorry about that
- Could be new, could be amazing pre-loved.
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