It's a minimalist Monday edition of Optimal Living Daily Episode 1998.

My Buy Nothing Year.

How I bought no clothing for a year and five things I learned by Kyle Koalski of Slow.co

and I'm Justin Malik. Happy Monday and welcome to one of the only podcasts in the world where

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My Buy Nothing Year. How I bought no clothing for a year and five things I learned by Kyle Koalski

of Slow.co. Quote, until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.

Doors Mormon. So it turns out I just completed a Buy Nothing Year with clothing, including shoes,

accessories, and everything. After taking a look at our recent monthly expenses I realize that

I've now spent zero dollars on clothing in 19 of the last 23 months as well as completed a

consecutive year of no clothing spending. How is this possible? In overview of my Buy Nothing Year,

also called No Buy Year, No Spend Challenge, No Shopping Year, or Shopping Band? In my previous

post I referred to this as oops minimalism because I didn't intentionally set out to not buy anything.

It just naturally happened as I've downshifted to slow living and voluntary simplicity.

In 2017, clothing was our household's fifth highest spending category after home, taxes, food,

and cars. Clothing costs us more than other categories like our dogs, entertainment,

side business expenses, utilities, phone and internet, health-related expenses, and other hobbies.

I'm also highly attuned to clothing because I spent the last four years working in the apparel

industry before leaving my job in May. So this seemed like a natural category to cut back spending

in 2018. I just didn't realize I would cut all the way back. When I really think about it,

here's my number one takeaway if you want to be successful in a challenge like this.

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