Too lazy to take a picture. Deal with it.
So, today, I broke one of the rules. I bought new clothes. The band was selling really cheap leftover clothes from last year, so I bought a sweatshirt (orginally $35ish I think) for $5. Five freaking dollars. I can't pass that up. I don't even feel that guilty about it.
It's still cool here so I wore my skinny jeans for the third day in a row. I didn't feel bad about that either. How many days is it acceptable to wear jeans before you have to wash them? At least two, if not 3 or 4, I would think. Possibly more depending on the circumstances. I don't know.
I wore my skinny jeans with sneakers, which is not something I like to do. Usually I wear flats with skinny jeans, but they didn't match my super casual t-shirt and fleece sweatshirt combo. I mean, skinny jeans look good with converse and other hipster shoes. But that's too mainstream for me. So I wore mainstream tennis shoes with (formerly) hispter skinny jeans. Deal with it world.
This challenge still hasn't been as difficult as I thought it would be. I'm so lazy in the mornings, it's easier having fewer clothes. Interestingly, this tendency towards being lazy has completely dismantled my attempts to be vegan. I was vegan for about 2 months. Then I cracked over the weekend. It all started with a sandwich from Jimmy Johns. Since then, I have lost all self-control. Having fewer choices in food didn't make me happy. I missed cheese and I tend to be a very emotional eater (as in, I feel an emotion, I should eat something). I don't think I realized how much of an emotional eater I was until I cracked. I'm still debating whether I want to go back to being vegan or not. It's so hard when I have so little control over what I eat at the dinning hall. But I do feel like it's the right thing to do. And I think eating vegan and eating healthier are important steps in my goal to make a better life for myself. My new mantra is "live simply". Less stuff, less clothes, more time for important stuff like friends, less stressing about school work. I'm not entirely sure how eating better is being simpler, but it seems to fit the the theme.
In regard's to Becky's post about owning a lot of stuff: I feel like being a minimalist means getting rid of the stuff that clutters your life. Personally, I love books and I feel like they add a lot to my life. So I will never be giving away all my books. That being said, I did give away a lot of books I don't like anymore over the summer. That's legit. Also, does having digital copies of things instead of physical copies count as simplifying? I figure at the very least, it's probably better. I feel less cluttered because instead of bringing all my dvd cases to school, I just brought the disks in a cd holder.
Okay, end long rant.
As far as the vegan thing, I wonder whether it's really simplifying. On the one hand, you have fewer choices...but on the other hand, those choices are sometimes hard to access. i.e. I bet the dhall doesn't offer vegan cheese. Or tofu, with any regularity. I totally support the vegan decision, especially for the ethical reasons you've talked about on your vlog, but I question the simplicity of it.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I wear jeans up to, oh, 8 times before washing them. Really. As long as they don't stink, they're fair game.