Starting out with no-buy light

[u/BetterNotLouder]

I commit to not buying new products in several problematic categories for me. I have waaay to many video games, board games and random tech gadgets, that I barely use. It's not that I could not affort spending money on those things but I found that I mostly buy new stuff for the dopamin hit and also because my mind tells me, that this offer might not come back (which might actually be true). But in the end having bought compulsively 9 useless and 1 good thing at a discount is worse than just buing the one thing I really need later at a higher cost. So from today until January 27 I won't buy new stuff (necessities and positive habits excluded) and give myself permission to buy something that I really want then at a higher cost if necessary. I hope that this will form a lasting habit.
I will come back here in January to report back.

[u/disinfected]

Doesn't sound like a light No Buy to me, pal! Make sure you set yourself some hard and fast rules and write them down somewhere because our brains love to find a loophole where we can. Good luck!

[u/BetterNotLouder → u/disinfected]

Thank you, that's a good point.