I hadn’t realized, or paid attention to the fact that on vacation we sometimes shop just to shop and buy things we don’t need and barely want just because we’re on vacation and it’s what we do. So this was where one of my convicting revelations came. But they sort of forgot that my not being able to buy anything meant I couldn’t buy anything for them either. Now, their fast is over so they have, as I shared in my last post, made several purchases in the past month or so. I was up for poking around and they were excited, but before we went in anywhere I reminded them I couldn’t buy anything. We came upon a cute little touristy enclave filled with. I took my girls to Maine for an overnight and when we went out to dinner and explore the beach by a cove Let me preface this all by saying that I get that these are all the first worldiest of all the first worldy problems. I have come to see how shopping can sometimes be a mindless activity when nothing is either needed or wanted simply because it has become part of an accepted routine.
With a few notable exceptions, which I have discussed in the past and whose company will be added to below, I have been mostly satisfied with my lot.īut when I look deeper I realize this experiment has exposed in me some profound dependence on purchasing my way out of boredom, buying for the sake of convenience when what I have would work with just a little effort at adjustment and perhaps most convicting of all. I have a ton more stuff than I need anyway so any time I feel deprived I am able to give myself a pep talk, that generally I listen to. I have never been a real shopper so I have not missed it for its own sake. In some ways it has been far easier than I thought it would be.
I am in month 8 of this no new stuff, no shopping, fasting of things thing.
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