Hello, my name is Ysis Lorenna, welcome back to my no buy year. 2019 is the year I
stopped mindless shopping and changed my relationship with consumerism and I've
been documenting my journey here on my youtube channel I'll leave a playlist
linked below of all the videos I've done so far and this video is gonna be about
how I've changed since starting my noble year it's only being at two months
nearly two months and I feel I've had a lot of positive changes already in my
life most of them are mindset and practical living I feel like I'm in a
really good place at the moment with my no by year but I have a feeling things
are about to get a little bit harder as we come into spring and summer and my
wardrobe has to change and makeup changes and all these things that I get
tempted by will come flooding in and make me want to buy them also in case
you have noticed yes I do have a very red so I I have conjunctivitis at the
moment if you're doing a noble year as well how are you getting on let me know
in the comments below I love doing these weekly check-ins and I feel like they're
great for me as well the whole like accountability side of things really
helped me stay on track so anyway if you're not already subscribed to my
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now let's get straight into the video
so the way I think I've changed the most is my desire to buy things right now I
was a very much right now kind of person and I feel like that's changed a lot I'm
thinking more carefully I I actually don't want to buy things straight away
anymore if I was booking a holiday and going to the travel agent I was it was
very likely that I would come out of there with a holiday book straight away
without even shopping around and asking and having you know giving myself an
hour or so to think about it I still haven't got half my birthday presents
because I can't part with the money even though it's part of my noble year I'm
allowed to receive presents and my birthday was two weeks ago now and I
just can't seem to want to buy things right now there and then I I really want
to think about what I want to buy I think it's also the fact that I can't
buy things as and when I want them so I have to be really careful and considered
about what I actually get given and for it to be something that will be really
helpful and useful and that I really really like another example is that my
mum gave me a birthday present and I had the option to having it delivered next
day for an extra seven pound 99 or have it in three to five working days for
free and I went for the three to five working days for free I would have never
done that I wanted it there and then right now the quickest delivery option I
don't care how much it costs I'll go for the quickest but I didn't I went for the
cheapest option which didn't cost me any more and it got here I didn't feel any
less excited about the item because it took three to five working days to get
to me so yeah I think I've lost that urgency to get things right here right
now which feels kind of good the second thing that has changed for me
is my appreciation for finishing things I was never the kind of person to finish
a product or to be excited about finishing a product but there's
something really satisfying now about using something up fully especially if
it's something that I like because I'll just feel like I got the most out
and I'm using it to the fullest amount of spent this amount of money on it
and I've used up all of it so it's totally worth the money now I think one
of the things I used to say a lot to myself is as soon as I buy something if
I if I try it and like it like a perfume and I go always totally worth the money
because it's so good and now that's kind of changed in my mind I only feel like
it's worth the money when I've used enough of it or a lot of it so now I
really appreciate finishing products and things and getting the most out of
everything and anything that I own the next thing is a little bit weird so let
me know if you can relate to that I have changed in a way that I'm enjoying
watching other people enjoy the things that they have without wanting them for
myself I don't know if that makes any sense but I used to make let's say I saw
someone wearing a lovely dress and on Instagram or something and I would say
oh my gosh you look beautiful in that dress where is it from
I must have it and now because I can't willy-nilly buy things that I like I'm
enjoying just watching that person enjoyed that item and if I see someone
wearing something nice I'm like that suits that person so well it looks
beautiful in them it goes great with that item I don't care to find out how I
can acquire it and have it in my life which is what's a huge thing for me
before like everything was a potential acquisition and could be part of my life
if I liked it enough I see a lipstick and I don't like a new perfect nude
lipstick which was my weakness and I don't want to think that it would look
good on me I just appreciate how it looks on that person and I appreciate
the beauty of the item the object and how beautiful it looks on the person so
a really strange one I doubt that anyone will feel like this but I if you do
comment below and let me know the next thing that's changed for me is that I
now take advantage of deals and before my no bi started I would
probably even forget that I had coupons I wouldn't go out of my way to get money
off anything I wouldn't find a discount code anywhere I would just you know if I
can afford it I would just buy it but now because I think my no buy has
changed the way that I see money spending and consuming things whenever I
have to buy stuff I go out of my way to get it for the cheapest way possible
grocery shopping replacement items I'm always looking for a good deal and like
I said in point number one that I not desperate anymore for next day delivery
I always go for the fridge of every option if I'm not in a rush to get the
item now I print all of my coupons get all my discount codes ready when I'm
going anywhere and have them with me the next way that I've really changed is
that I'm much more concerned about wasting things especially things that I
know I can't be purchase so like I won't put makeup on unless I know that's gonna
stay on my face because I don't want to use up my foundation because I can't
repurchase that specific foundation that I like and before my no buy started I
wouldn't even think twice if I put makeup on my face and I had to take it
off let's say to just go and have a shower wash my hair and then put it back
on it wouldn't even cross my mind I wouldn't think twice the same with like
putting loads of shampoo in my hand like a massive amount that wasn't even needed
I wouldn't even it wouldn't even cross my mind now I'm like put in the amount
that I need and if I'm just gonna you know use exactly what I need because I
don't want to run out of this too soon cuz I might not like what I having my
stash and have to use it so I'm a lot more mindful of wasting stuff and making
sure that I get the most out of everything that I have for as long as
possible another way that I've changed is that I'm now comparing new things to
the things that I have and enjoying what I have instead of wanting what's new so
if I see a new product in the market I try to compare to something that I have
in my collection and see oh yeah this is very similar to
what I have it doesn't spark that desire to have
that new thing because I've found something that's suitable and that I
already loved and that I already have so that I don't have to spend money on
anything else and that goes for a lot of things but not for everything there are
certain things that I still you know look at the new one I think all this so
great I saw a camera yesterday he was a new
release from Canon and I thought that is really nice and I really want that but I
can't buy technology so that's gone on my list of things that I wanted to buy
but let's see how far that goes and if it makes it to the end of the year
another thing I saw today actually was that Samsung revealed their new foldable
phone and it looks amazing and I'm not like an Android Samsung kind of person
I'm Apple through--through but I was still really intrigued by the technology
and I just thought that looks really good and I can't see anything in my in
my life at the moment that compares to that so that was something that really
made me like want the new thing but apart from that I'm now constantly
comparing what I have to what's new out there and enjoying what I have much more
and the last way that I've really changed is that I'm now convincing
myself not to buy things as before I used to convince myself to buy things
all the time now I talked myself out of buying things so much I mentioned that
in my January check-in of how I felt like that's a big change for me even
things like going out for a meal I convinced myself that I'm gonna go out
and I'm gonna get the best meal and most expensive or whatever you know that the
tastiest meal is not really about the price but like I think I'm gonna get the
tastiest meal and I'm gonna really enjoy it and I'm on my way there or even when
I get there I'm talking myself out of it and I'm thinking oh maybe I'll just go
for something you know more affordable there's still tasty I'll still feel
satisfied and I won't have to spend I don't know 20 pounds on a mini meal
instead of 10 pounds on a main meal so yeah I'm just talking myself out of
buying things constantly without even knowing that
doing it so these are the ways in which I feel I've changed since starting my no
by year I'm sure there are a lot more more little things but these are the
things that I could think of right now so hope you enjoyed this video let me
know the ways in which you have changed since starting your no by journey or
your low bye or just mindful spending for 2019 don't
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