The story of Stuff

I watched “The Story of Stuff Today” and I have decided to stop buying new clothes and other stuff for a year. Clearly, I will maintain the practice later as well, but the first year, is what I will consider my “detox from stuff”. This means I will stop buying new items. I can barrow things and buy used things I just cannot purchase brand new stuff. Obviously, I will still buy new underwear for sanitary purposes and this does not include food and hygienic supplies. I started tossing this idea around awhile ago, but had so many excuses as to why it was unpractical, put after doing more research the unpractical thing would be to change nothing. I have already started to think about things that will be hard but there are so many ways to buy gently used products- I don’t think it will be impossible. I already enjoy thrifting and shopping online on sites like Ebay and Amazon. I am very curious to see how much money I will save. I know that in a single trip to target I can rack up a pretty huge bill in less than an hour. I am amazed at how frightened I am to begin this journey, it seem so normal for me to me to shop. The more I have thought about this the more disgusted I get with my consumption habits.