No Buy 2019

Jokes aside, I haven't bought many new garments in the last year or two, I'm very happy with the stuff I own and look forward to extracting the maximum lifespan out of what I've got. If I live to be 300 I might accomplish that.

Now my spare money goes towards other extremely durable/useful/beautiful things that are just as superfluous as the clothes I was buying ~5yrs ago. 

I'm not sure this qualifies as a victory of any kind, I am in no way "freed" from consumer impulses, the objet d'covet is just different now. I usually manage to convince myself that I'm "being the change I want to see" in some way through these purchases. It's a funky balance, and I don't think anyone* is really immune to the prevailing patterns of consumption. I try to purchase carefully (in accordance with ethics first, tastes second) and focus on gratitude for what I have, and that seems to be about all you can do without renouncing the material world.

*For 2020, let's do the full blown ascetic mendicant challenge. Of course we won't be able to post about it, someone will have to volunteer as documentarian for the denimmonks.