Comments on: Who’s Down With No Buy Month? http://www.afrobella.com/2009/02/03/whos-down-with-no-buy-month/ Natural Hair, Beauty, Fashion and Makeup Blog Sun, 26 May 2013 02:27:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Frugalista does No-Buy Month: Getting into the groove! | The Frugalista http://www.afrobella.com/2009/02/03/whos-down-with-no-buy-month/#comment-1269031 Frugalista does No-Buy Month: Getting into the groove! | The Frugalista Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:43:55 +0000 http://www.afrobella.com/2009/02/03/whos-down-with-no-buy-month/#comment-1269031 [...] check out this post from blogger, Afrobella. She's doing big things, as always, in the blogging world. She just redesigned her site. [...]

]]> By: The Inner Conflict of a Beauty Blogger | afrobella http://www.afrobella.com/2009/02/03/whos-down-with-no-buy-month/#comment-208022 The Inner Conflict of a Beauty Blogger | afrobella Tue, 17 Feb 2009 05:22:58 +0000 http://www.afrobella.com/2009/02/03/whos-down-with-no-buy-month/#comment-208022 [...] through No Buy Month and it feels both like a blessing and a [...]

]]> By: Valentine’s Day, The No-Buy-Month Way | afrobella http://www.afrobella.com/2009/02/03/whos-down-with-no-buy-month/#comment-205511 Valentine’s Day, The No-Buy-Month Way | afrobella Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:36:01 +0000 http://www.afrobella.com/2009/02/03/whos-down-with-no-buy-month/#comment-205511 [...] far I’ve been a very good bella with my no-buy-month pledge. The one big expense I was concerned about for the month of February? Valentine’s Day! [...]

]]> By: Valentine’s Day, The No-Buy-Month Way | afrobella http://www.afrobella.com/2009/02/03/whos-down-with-no-buy-month/#comment-205510 Valentine’s Day, The No-Buy-Month Way | afrobella Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:36:00 +0000 http://www.afrobella.com/2009/02/03/whos-down-with-no-buy-month/#comment-205510 [...] far I’ve been a very good bella with my no-buy-month pledge. The one big expense I was concerned about for the month of February? Valentine’s Day! [...]

]]> By: Black Pearl http://www.afrobella.com/2009/02/03/whos-down-with-no-buy-month/#comment-202971 Black Pearl Sun, 08 Feb 2009 00:04:02 +0000 http://www.afrobella.com/2009/02/03/whos-down-with-no-buy-month/#comment-202971 Sounds great to me! And as a broke grad student looking for a job, it sounds like my life for the last year, lol!

]]> By: Link Cariño | Hissip http://www.afrobella.com/2009/02/03/whos-down-with-no-buy-month/#comment-202841 Link Cariño | Hissip Sat, 07 Feb 2009 12:00:41 +0000 http://www.afrobella.com/2009/02/03/whos-down-with-no-buy-month/#comment-202841 [...] you brave enough to do a No Buy Month participant? Go head if you [...]

]]> By: Pearlsrevealed http://www.afrobella.com/2009/02/03/whos-down-with-no-buy-month/#comment-202719 Pearlsrevealed Sat, 07 Feb 2009 06:10:49 +0000 http://www.afrobella.com/2009/02/03/whos-down-with-no-buy-month/#comment-202719 This is right on time! I haven’t eaten out in 2 weeks and I want to keep the momentum going. Flying home at the end of the month so to offset travel expenses I’m living low on the food chain. Will be checking out her site for inspiration.

]]> By: Curlychronicles http://www.afrobella.com/2009/02/03/whos-down-with-no-buy-month/#comment-202125 Curlychronicles Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:48:22 +0000 http://www.afrobella.com/2009/02/03/whos-down-with-no-buy-month/#comment-202125 I actually live pretty green and simple so it would be kinda cool to see just how much more I can save. I do go to veggie spots to eat from time to time and buy little things from thrift stores but I think I already do pretty well as far as not being a big consumer.
I think this is a great concept for our society in general… people are feeling the crunch but I think the crunch would be a tad lighter if we weren’t use to spending money on so many unnecessary materialistic things.

]]> By: mochachoc http://www.afrobella.com/2009/02/03/whos-down-with-no-buy-month/#comment-202065 mochachoc Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:50:43 +0000 http://www.afrobella.com/2009/02/03/whos-down-with-no-buy-month/#comment-202065 One day I was perusing the makeup aisle @ some fancy department store. I was feeling all warm, fuzzy and contented lovingly picking up gloss, shadow et al. I happen to look down and notice a SA open her stock draw. I’m glad she did. In it were all those colourful tubes of gloss, palettes of shadow and paint thrown in higeldy pigeldy. They just looked like junk. It stripped the haze from my eyes and made me realize no matter what they promise or how good they feel, its just stuff. Cleverly marketed stuff but stuff nonetheless.

Since I started reading beauty blogs I got into the whole crazy thing of yearning ThAT shadow or nail polish everyone MUST have. I remember buying a MAC shadow that didn’t even suit me just because well I MUST have it coz everyone’s talking about it.

Now I feel rather pleased with myself because I don’t rush out and buy yet another shade of gold, green, black or whatever just because MAC or OPI or whoever has a new collection. It’s all just stuff.

My aim now is to buy investment pieces. I look for quality and longevity. Does it suit me, do i need it, can I afford it? This approach helps me. After all if I allow my money to whittle away on those minor relatively cheap items I will never have the money for the big trip, medical care, that interesting course, to help others, that wonderful dining experience at The French Laundry or the The Fat Duck and so on.

So I say go for it. You’ll feel like the master of your destiny.

]]> By: Gem http://www.afrobella.com/2009/02/03/whos-down-with-no-buy-month/#comment-202045 Gem Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:02:03 +0000 http://www.afrobella.com/2009/02/03/whos-down-with-no-buy-month/#comment-202045 b.: We have Wii and PS3 too, so it is nice to “watch” stuff from the Internet on the TV screen! I hadn’t even thought about XM, that’s a good idea too.

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