savings challenge – marginalia and such

video: My Year of Less 💰March 2025 & Q1 Budget Review + Low Buy Rules Update

Join me for a March budget recap… and the time has come for the Q1 low buy update! 💰

Join me for a March budget recap… and the time has come for the Q1 low buy update!

🙌🏻 Wins

March savings $503
Q1 savings $1239

😓 Challenges

too many date nights = fewer meals at home (falling on bad habits)
books are getting expensive, but I suddenly want them all

TLDR: Decent savings overall, but not feeling great about dining out as much in March and I’m rethinking some of my lowbuy rules.

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video: My year of less 💵✨ My 2025 low/no buy goals

My 2025 No/Low Buy Rules and Savings Goals

And we’re back!

Join me for Year 2 of my Low/No Buy Project. Tips for doing a low/no buy based on what I learned in 2024, and my money and savings goals for 2025.

My 2025 Low/No Buy Rules: Only 15 non-essential item limit (ie. the “pretty things”).

⛔ No clothing (except replacements – investing in key pieces and second hand options), new books (except the two I preordered) – read what I have, teas, hair accessories, lotions, makeup, perfumes, bags, blind boxes, “cute stuff without a purpose,” pens.

Limit dining out.

2024 low/no buy playlist

2024 recap and what I learned

video: 2024 no/low buy results

my December budget review and recap of my 2024 low/no buy savings challenge

Join me for a review of my December budget and a recap of my 2024 low/no buy rules and goals. Plus, all the ways I failed at sticking to those rules, and realizing that those categories are not the real problem at all.

December was another $0 savings month, but that was expected.