January Stuff Buying

This year I'm hoping to keep spending on "stuff" low, both because I want to spend less money and because I want to put less stuff out into the world that will eventually be trash.  And so here we go with January.

$9.54--I made one trip to a thrift store.  I dropped off a carload full of donations, and then I went inside and bought 4 small baskets.  Two my sister asked me to get, and then I got two small ones for use at my home.

$19.00--I bought two diamond art paintings.  I need a distraction right now, and this fits the bill.  Zero regrets.

$21.84--At the beginning of January, I spent $21.84 at Amazon.  That will hopefully be my very last purchases at Amazon, as we broke up.  This was 2 kitchen storage containers (for flour and sugar) and a pepper grinder.

$20.88--My husband bought a charging cord from an online electronics store.

$146.05--Two sets of scrubs for my husband.  His department will be requiring a certain color of scrub by next year.  He's had his current ones for years and they are worn out, so it was time to get some new ones.

I think we did pretty good.  It's always easy at the beginning of a challenge, so we will see how the year continues.  I'm not keeping up with how much we spend on fast food/restaurants, but we have definitely cut back there too. January was tough because I was driving back and forth a lot to where my mom was in physical rehab for a couple weeks.  I fell down the rabbit hole of stopping for fries along the way or for a snack when I needed to pick something up for her at a drugstore because it was easy.  But since she's been home, I'm doing great about waiting until I am home to eat.