Not only is this a form of passive resistance, it's undetectable if you need to be a stealth anti-communist. You can say "I'm having a buy-nothing year!" in front of the Karens at the water cooler and they'll think you're one of them.
Benefits: you aren't funding people who hate you. You ARE funding people like you. Your life will be filled with less crap. You won't die gagging on toxic fumes from the plastic you've surrounded yourself with.
My big opt-outs this year (on top of the media subscriptions I already dropped) are new books and make-up. I almost never wear make-up anyway, yet somehow I still own enough that if I wanted to "just throw on some lipstick and foundation" I bet I could do it every damned day for the next six months. And books are just as good used, and I'm not supporting a thoroughly corrupt publishing industry.
Anyone else got any good ones? Favourite ways to save?
Making your coffee at home instead of buying it from Starbucks, etc. And cooking your own food are both great ways to save.
Yes, it's shocking how much you save just by cooking at home. Also, weirdly, it stopped being hard to stay at my target weight (even though I'm constantly cooking cakes and pies...so sugar at home is different from restaurant sugar?? I don't even understand, but I can eat dessert now and not blob out).
"restaurant sugar" is usually High Fructose Corn Syrup, which explains the difference.
Ohhhhh. That would explain a lot. Like how my children eat dessert every night, but neither of them are overweight. We just don't eat out, ever.