If you do a no buy week once per month (and dont overbuy the other weeks) that works out as three months of no buy over a year. As someone who recently choose to work part time, this allows me to live and do the things i value on a lower budget! Another idea is no spend during the work week.

I get that we blame the companies for this mess, but at what point to we take accountability for our own actions and STOP buying the nonsense they spew out to us

i ve been there also in 2019-2020 i think then i started project pan and also decluttered a lot of things. such a shame i did also get in debt for buying this makeup...

If stuff breaks and you don't replace it, it is called being stingy not frugal.

Lego has advent calendar but they are usually 20-30 dollars but with that the legos will eventually go in to a lego bin with older legos sets that have been unbuilt 2-5 years after you originally built them. I only got a lego advent calendar once it was ok.

I already wrecked my no buy January because I’m an emotional spender if things have been really stressful at work. trying to focus on a small attainable goal that I can enjoy.

Budgeting - set up my own excel spreadsheet sheet I use for budgeting that tracks by month and also annual totals be category and %. Love me some informative charts 😄!

I am doing a no-buy 2025. I did a no- buy in 2020 and low-buys in 2021, 2022, 2023 & 2024. We paid off debt and saved up a house deposit. This time around I am saving for a career transition and an educational upgrade.

I'm confused, you are making a no-buy year video, yet you are trying to sell your viewers something. Explain that bit Please.

Use up the tretinoin on the rest of your body! I’ve done that a lot with serums, retinols and other products that didn’t work on my face (or will expire) you will use them up so quickly and it’s feels so gratifying 🤗

Yen a marre de ce genre de vidéo sur ma page d'accueil bordel de merde

I watch you and Casey Ford for my no buy inspo... you're basically the same person with all the funny sass and nerdy charts! Your tip to establish a goal (your why) is important because it's so easy to justify spending and that you deserve a little treat here and a bigger treat there.

I'm doing a low buy yr exception for only a certain brands lol. No buys are hard because of those brands lol

This was so helpful. I'm doing my first no buy year and have just started my own KZbin channel 😱 hoping it goes well! I really love The Simple Environmentalist because she has such a down to earth approach to sustainability and is so informative and inspiring. 🥰

Check out Shawna Ripari!!

Somebody recommended Grace Nevitt already, which I would as well. And also add: - Shelbizlee for eco-minimalism - laralikesmascara & Shawna Ripari for anti-consumerism - rainbowbudgets, polkadotbudgets & budget with Kerry for budgeting videos. Hope it helps! ☺️

Hello Hope all is well. To all of you doing a no buy; hope you all succed to do it.... Personally I will do a no buy by the months in x or m categories, as well as add WEEKS of no buy... by week is doable for me and long run better chances to succed... Hope all goes well Keep safe from Portugal 🇵🇹 😀

I recomend hannah ross

Im doing a low buy year this year. The reason it's a low buy and not a no buy, is simply because from experience my brain is very "all or nothing", so based on that, I kmow that the first little slip up is enough for me to give up the entire thing. So instead I'll have a low buy, where even if I slip up, I haven't failed. And my reasons are both finances, over the last few years my spending got out of hand and I need to get into saving and actually having control of my finances. And because I have so much stuff, I'm drowning in it, why do I keep buying more?????

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So close to 20k hope u get to it in 2025!

Hey Aimee!! I’ve been watching you for years!! I have a panning / beauty channel where I have a very detailed beauty budget (that I review in my Byes and Buys each month) and preach mindful consumerism. ❤

I recommend watching Grace Nevitt. She just completed a no buy year and her videos tend to include budgeting, no buy, minimalism, and talking about her feelings that come up surrounding all of these things.

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I don't get this whole "its's normalizing XYZ". It's not. Kim Kardashian or Taylor Swift showing their private Jet all the fucking time too, are they normalizing private jets? No, bc the normal person can't afford one. The normal person can't afford so much bullshit too, the normal person knows that. If you don't know what you can afford and what not, you yourself are the problem, not people who can afford that. If Ali goes into debt for the next 40 years bc he buys a Audi or Mercedes he can't afford, that's not the fault of Thomas Müller or Manuel Neuer, who can afford 10 cars of that kind. You are adult people, that means you are old enough to vote, but blame other people for your purchases? Think about that, if you can't make good decision over your own life, why do you think you make a good decision by voting? So if you think this content is a threat, you shouldn't vote.

You are doing amazing! That makeup collection is my goal! I’m not close to be near that for a whileeeeeeeee! Do beauty product panning for 2025 that way you lower your numbers and as you finish one product add another one from the same category! ❤❤❤❤

I am there now! I'm in the process of decluttering and trying not to bring anything on that won't have a place.

Maybe ask yourself why you are holding on to things you don't want or can't possibly use like maybe 5 tubes of Trentnoin. There are always woman's shelters who could really use these things as many woman leave home with minimal things on their backs and need to start over. You can help them and not be burdened with things you don't really want.

I also did a big use up challenge, and I have learned that my base level for makeup is about 95 product give or take 10. And it’s totally okay!! I think your doing great

Don’t be hard on yourself, just work out which are the categories you need to work on or be careful of. My inventory (fellow spreadsheet nerd!) lets me put in the date I acquired something and the date I finished it. That allows me to have a chart that shows the amount of product I own every day of the year. I like it because I can see when I buy stuff (steep little increase) and then the numbers reduce again over time as I use them up. I also know how many of certain things I can use in a year, so I can bulk buy my favourite sunscreen knowing how many I need without overdoing it.

I don't think you should feel bad. Inventory numbers are not static things, sometimes we have more, sometimes less. As long as we're not being wasteful, it's all good. ❤

My inventory went from 142 down to 124. The end goal is 36. 😅

Why not instead of a project pan you do a “final declutter” getting rid of evetybing you don’t want and showing the process of getting rid of it, correctly recycling, or donating or selling. I fell off watching your project pan because as the same boat that I’m in, you’ve gotten rid of most of it!

Pro tip for helping make sure your collection doesn't grow again: as you reduce your amount of belongings, reduce the size of the containers you keep them in. You won't feel the urge to fill up the space if there's less of it.

Girl use your dermatica on your chest and Hands!!! The hands age so fast and get sun spots etc because they are always out so they could use some retinol 🙏😍❤️

Hi Aimee 🌷 You come across so glamorous to me, but not in a hyperconsumer way. Conscious glam, if you will 🦋🩵

All this does is throw shade, with no clarity. The only takeaway I got was this is awkward and it was

You’re not letting anyone down, you’re an inspiration for the rest of us to use all our products. Plus it’s all stuff you can realistically use up, it’s not like you went out and bought 10 eyeshadow palettes

14:27 girl SAME 😂😂😂 where did all the soap come from!? 😭

Use up the cream blushes. They will expire faster than powders and were such an annoying trend that peaked from 2021-2023 to dell people more redundant products, when people have been mixing foundation and face lotion with red lipstick since forever. As for the tret, ask around if people want them but give them all the safety info, OR use them on your body/legs so you you can have nice skin all over. (Assuming you are always wearing sunscreen!!)

I think for things that get used up quickly like the face masks it's ok to have a few more spare, especially being mindful of then not getting more...and similarly it's ok I think to use the Christmas 'stock up' to last a chunk of the year!

I love your non-judgemental attitude to having stuff. It's so refreshing when online most ppl seem to be full-on mega consumers, or strict Mother bloody Earth minimalists 😂

13 single eye shadows is pretty much a palette. Are all of these colors that you don't have on your palettes? Are some of them halloween colors? You might be able to find some balancing there 🤔

i think you're being too hard on yourself regarding the number of products you have. i think the real concern is you had a subscription service sending you a tube of tret every month and it took you 10 months to put a stop to it 😂

You’re being too hard on yourself! You need to give away some tretinoin and some soap then you’ll be good!

With project pan being such a big thing this year, you were way ahead of the curve plus I think you dealt with it much more healthily. You are definitely being way too hard on yourself though!

I think you're being too hard on yourself with the face masks. If you had gotten 5 moisturizers, then yes, but masks are single use. If you'd wear one once a week, that's essentially a 4-week back up and sounds reasonable. I think when judging your actions, it's easier to think in terms of someone else: "would my non-hoarder friend/family member do smth similar?" or in terms of time: how long does it take to go through all of this? If the time answer is realistic (you only pass by a primark once a month or you have to go out of your way to get there) i don't think there's a problem Edit for spelling

Not a problem... you've got this! Many overages were gifts and the subscription mess up. It also makes sense why you would buy a handful of sheet masks too. You'll easily be able to get that number down as well as the bath bombs. I'd actually want you to buy a cream blush if that's what you prefer to wear in the winter, when our skin is drier. Perhaps you could donate some bars of soap to a women's shelter or something though. Confession time... I probably have 200 essential oils and that's after decluttering about half so we all have our areas of weakness BUT I haven't bought any new ones in years and plan on never buying any again so we're being mindful and making progress now.

Well better than me. My skincare, body care, hair care, makeup combined is 515 so far. Granted my mom bulk buys shampoo for me when she sees it on sale bc i wash my hair every single day but the numbers are still ridiculous.

I think you are being too hard on yourself. It's ok to purchase multiple masks because it's literally 5 uses. You will use 1 moisturizer for so much longer. In k-beauty they often sell masks in packs of 10. Honestly i would consider that as 1 product. Also if you didn't bought 10 tretinoins or bars of soap yourself, then it's understandable that numbers went up and it's totally fine.