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One year of not buying new from sleepygreen 105 days old

Saturday was the one year mark for not buying new; my "Jubilee day" according to the original Compact. I've managed to go a whole year without buying ...

5 days until end of buy nothing new year! from sleepygreen 113 days old

OK now I'm very excited, it's almost a year! I've bought 20 things new, some of which were on the 'allowed' list, some were not. But I've done a year!! ...

First crop of the year from Allotment from sleepygreen 134 days old

Last nights dinner was new potatoes, broadbeans and strawberry's from the allotment, delicous!! (also with burgers made from veggie burger mix and carrots ...

One month remaining of 'not buying new' year! from sleepygreen 139 days old

Today I am oh so tempted by offers on organic hankies! But I have put them on my 'one year of not buying new' list and I realised that as of today there ...

Tescopoly from sleepygreen 141 days old

I think my previous posts show my dislike of supermarkets, but freeing yourself from them 100% is extremely difficult. We shop for vegetables at the ...

37 days left of my buy nothing new year from sleepygreen 145 days old

37 days left of my 'buy nothing new' year. The last year has gone very quickly. Recent new purchases have been a new power supply for our router as the ...

T minus 44 days until a year of Compacting from sleepygreen 152 days old

It's nearly a year until my first year of Compacting! I decided to not buy anything new for a whole year. Well it hasn't quite been nothing new, but ...

Carbooting for greeness from sleepygreen 168 days old

The bank holiday weekend was a busy one, hence I'm on here and not working much, I'm so tired! On Saturday BF and I did the shopping and then went to ...

Downsizer from sleepygreen 183 days old

2nd May Well its been a good day today; ive sold 4/5 ebay listings that finished tonight. 3 items of cycling gear that are surplus to my needs - i have ...

Ramblings of a green woman from sleepygreen 193 days old

April 29th My spending this week has been some ebay postage, 3 train tickets, 5 packets of sour sweets - strawberry & cola flavours (vegan!) cue Homer drool ...