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Yesterday I hit the 150-day mark of sobriety, and at this point it just felt like any other day. In some ways my sobriety feels new and fragile, something to be protected, but in others it just feels like a part of my life now. It's only been five months and yet feels like a… Continue reading 150 Days of Change

Last month I sat down for a couple of hours and pored through my credit card statements for the past few months. I created a chart to show the trends of my spending and, as per a suggestion from Your Money or Your Life, I also charted my earnings. Up until the end of January… Continue reading My Personal 2021 Savings Challenge

A month and a half ago I read the book Fashionopolis by Dana Thomas. It was an excellent read, not because I was unaware of what went on in the fashion world but because it gave me the push I needed to make my protest of the industry's practices heard through keeping my dollars firmly… Continue reading Feeling Good Without Spending

*Warning: this is an extremely self-indulgent post and was only intended as an online journal entry, essentially! Now that I've had time to digest the fact that 2020 is over, that 2021 started as a shit show, and that we are resilient beasts, I decided to go over a few things from 2020 for "fun".… Continue reading 2020: I Hated It, but I Learned a Lot

Goodbye, dumpster fire! Goodbye, and don't come back! Many people are saying a hearty "Fuck Off" to 2020 in the hopes that 2021 will be marginally better. I don't need to list all of the terrible things that happened in what was supposed to be a shiny start of a new decade, but it jolted… Continue reading Comforts and Discomforts in the New Year

For two months at the start of the pandemic, I stopped drinking. I did it because I felt like I could easily get really out of control, really fast, drinking by myself in my apartment. For those two months I read blogs about sobriety, I listened to podcasts, and I read books about addiction in… Continue reading Happiness is not Coming from Inside the Bottle

I'm not proud to admit that in the past few weeks my spending has rocketed to heights not seen since high school, when I worked at McDonald's and had absolutely no bills - mall shopping became the norm. It seems to have again now. All my sensible spending and thrifting has been wiped out by… Continue reading Putting my Wallet Back in My Pocket

Holy roasting dumpster fire, Batman! What a shit show the last few months have been. I don't know about you guys, but I honestly don't know how I continue to go through some days without screaming into a pillow. We're all aware of what's going on, and yet each day something else comes up that… Continue reading Getting Back in the Saddle after the Barn Has Burned Down