Blogs Of A Shopaholic

MONTH ONE DONE ✓ ✓ ✓ Why have I decided to embark on a "no buy 2019"? That's probably the first thing to talk about before I go on to say how I have found the first month.  I have never really given any thought to the things I want and buy.  If I see something I like, I want it... I need it in my life, right there and then.  Whether I can afford it or not doesn't come into the equation.   Towards the end of last year (2018) I started to change the way I looked at things.  I took a break from Instagram, which I was finding incredibly toxic and it was the best thing I could have done.  I was finding myself getting caught up in people's daily posts of new outfits and purchases and try as I might, I couldn't help feeling quite jealous that these people could afford to keep going out every day buying new clothes all the time.  I then read that actually, some people just order or buy a load of clothes, take photos for the 'gram and then return the...

Hey guys, You would not believe how many times I have written the introduction to this post! My current situation is this: there are so many things going around in my head at the moment and I have no idea where or how to start sorting them out into some sort of organised list.  So, let's just start writing and see where it takes me!  It's been a while since I last posted (nothing new there as I've always been a bit sporadic in posting) but this time one of the reasons behind me not posting has been that I have just lost my blogging mojo.  Well, maybe not my blogging mojo, but my mojo for the things I blog about.   I started this blog because I loved shopping and buying clothes and make up.  The one thing I didn't realise when I started this blog was that I actually don't buy that much stuff compared to the world of Instagram.  I soon found myself trying to play catch up and thinking that I needed to be posting about new things on my Insta-f...