Next Year's Purchasing Outline & Streamlining Thoughts
Guidelines & Goals #progressnotperfection
JANUARY 1 – JANUARY 31ST COMPLETE RETAIL NON ESSENTIAL NO BUY
THIS INCLUDES:
1.No eating out
2.No purchasing anything that isn’t essential
to my existence.
3.Grocery shopping, toiletries, medicine, gas,
cigarettes, and energy drinks are acceptable
4.I am only allowed to eat out if I have gift
certificate or I am invited
5.No online shopping with the exception that
the items are essential.
6.The only non essential exception is if ND
drops a new palette.
7.No candles, diffusers, perfumes, bath and
body works lotions, purses or clothing
Thematic No Buy
Rules
Throughout the Year
·Beauty
Purchases cannot exceed $200, only exception is if Natasha Denona drops a
palette that exceeds $200 I am allowed to purchase it but must borrow the money
from the next moth.
·Eating
out (where I spend my own money) cannot exceed 3 times a month and only 1
DoorDash Grubhub order per month included
·Only 1
book or audible purchase per month
·Only
two in-app game purchases, not to exceed $10 per month
·No
purchasing of any new foundation, UNLESS, it is a repurchase of a top 3 foundation
·No
purchasing of any new pressed face powder, UNLESS, it is a repurchase of top 2
pressed powder
·No
purchasing of any new loose powders, UNLESS, it is a repurchase of top 5 loose
powders
·No
purchasing of blush singles, highlighters, or face palettes, UNLESS, it is
during birthday month
·Birthday
Month budget is different and is not disclosed. Rules are different for
Birthday month and will be disclosed at that time.
·Whatever
is purchased during birthday month multiply by 2 and declutter that amount
·Selling
of products: if a product is for sale and I keep it for sale at the end of the
month it is permanently declutter. At the end of the second month, if it’s not
sold it needs to be donated!
·Mainstream Items are Restricted: Items that are
Mainstream that are not restricted are any ABH, NATASHA DENONA, OR VISEART EYESHADOW
PALETTES, BECCA, BENEFIT or ABH Face Palettes, MAC Blushes & Highlights, or
Laura Geller Blushes or Highlighters. These items may be purchased at any time without
regard for the for the low buy.
·No
purchasing products on credit i.e. sizzle, afterpay, etc. If I don’t have the
month then I don’t need it.
Thematic No Buy Year
1.January Beginning of the Year Declutter: Declutter 30 Items from Beauty
Collection
a.Select
your Top 30 Items in your collection
b.Select
15 items “on the bubble” and decide by the end of the month if they stay or go
(not a part of the 30)
c.Make a
wish list of 15 items
2.No
Purchasing of Tech Stuff
a.No
Computers, Cameras, No in-app purchases, No Watches, No Watch bands, No Online
Food Orders, No Purchasing of Apps, No TV’s & Only 2 hours of TV a day.
b.Read/Audible
3 books by the end of the month, Journal every day, Work on Book Every day,
Read meditation every day, & say rosary everyday.
a.Select
20 of the above items to declutter and donate, NOT sell
b.Make an
effort to minimize unnecessary clutter decorative or other
c.Write a
blog post or do a video about your experience.
4.No
purchasing of hobby related activities: No yarn, hooks, books, ebooks, coloring
pens, or coloring books or find a word or sudoku books
a.Create
or read five things with the supplies you already have
b.Declutter
and donate excess supplies
c.Write a
blog post or do a video about your experience
5.Invest in
free educational tools
a.Learn a
language daily, Do a brain exercise daily, Watch 2 Ted Talks, Find an online
course, minimize tv watching to 3 hours a day
b.Keep a
journal of your experiences
c.Write a
blog post or do a video
6.Mid Year Beauty Declutter: Declutter 30 Items from
Beauty Collection June
a.Select 15 Items you have changed your mind about
b.Write a blog post or do a video about those items
and why?
c.Select 10 items that you are happy are in your
collection and 10 items you’d like to see added, and 10 items you are glad to see
go/that overstayed their welcome
7.Declutter 20 blush, highlighter,
bronzers and
face palettes
a.Name top 5 in each category
b.Share why you chose to Declutter chosen items
c.Write a blog post/video about your experience
8.Birthday Month April
a.All restrictive year long no buy behavior is lifted
b.Still have a budget, but do not have to share that
budget with others
c.For every beauty product purchased OR received in
the month of April, one must be decluttered
d.Write a blog post/video about your experience, did
you decide to maintain certain limitations. Etc.
9.Share Your entire beauty collection inventory in
quantity and monetary msrp value
a.Commit to a specific goal amount for each section
within a six month time. If you are ok with your numbers, then look at panning
some of your older items in each category. Panning is relative, so whatever you
see is success.
b.Share your goals in a blog post/vide
c.In 6 months, do an update about your
success/chanllenges
10.Declutter all foundations & face powders to
specific numbers: Foundations (10) Face Powders (8)
a.Talk about items you decluttered that you actually
liked but why you still let them go
b.Talk about items you declutter and actually held
onto for way too long
c.Share your thoughts in a blog post/video
11.Massive declutter of potted shadows, shadow sticks,
cream shadows, glitter liners (1/2) of current total
a.Is there a reason you kept some products over others?
b.Where any products expired
c.Do you plan on repurchasing anything because it’s
old or expired
d.Write about your thoughts in a blog post/Video
12.December End of the Year
Declutter: Declutter 25 items, including clothes, shoes, makeup, & purses
a.Why did you choose these item?
b.Have you needed or wanted to get rid of these items,
but held on to them for one reason or another
c.Share your thought in a blog post/Video
Rotation Schedule For Palettes:
Must Choose 6-10 Palettes Total
Week One: Favorites Drawer
&
Week Two: Theme Related Week
Week Three: Options Week - Specific Section of Palette Collection
i.e. Affordable, Custom, Luxury, High End, Small High End, Large, Or All Indie
Palettes, Or Favorites Drawer, Or All New Releases NO THEME RELATED PALETTES IN
WEEK 3
&
Week Four: Theme Related Week/2nd Chance Last
Chance
Week Five: Dealer’s Choice (Solo Week)
Each Week
I Must Choose 1-3 Palette That is in The “2nd Chance/Last
Chance” Bucket and Make a Decision
Once a
theme has been chosen from the randomizer, I cannot spin again. Whatever is
chosen by the wheel is the theme of the week. Period. Once a theme is used, it
is removed by the randomizer, and cannot be used again until all themes have
been used, regardless of how long it takes to accomplish this. If a theme does
not have enough palettes to satisfy the requirement of (6) palettes, the
remaining palettes may be drawn from the favorites drawer.
Project
Pan Items: Regardless of the theme or week, project panning items are
always available for use. They do not count as items required for the themes or
weeks.
Rotation Schedule For Face
Palettes, Blushes, Bronzers, Highlighters
Week One: Contour or Blush or Highlighter Palette, 4 Individual Face Products
&
Week Two: Multi Face Palette & Blush Palette or Highlighter Palette or
Contour Palette
Week Three: Multi Face Palette & 2 Individual Face
Products
&
Week Four: All Face Palettes (My Choice) or All Individual Face
Products (My Choice)
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