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January 19, 2019

10 Things I Won’t Buy This Year

Today I’ll be listing 10 things I won’t buy this year as a step forward to minimize my cluttered stash/life and in the process, manage my expenses.

You might have seen me talking about how much I want to reduce the size of my collection as it gives me anxiety. While I am mostly talking about beauty products, but recently I made a list of all the things (beauty & non-beauty) I don’t need to buy any more this year. The idea came while I was watching a few Youtube videos on minimalism. While I truly believe that minimalism is a luxury but since I can afford that luxury, I might as well give it a try.

10 Things I Won't Buy This Year

Before you start painting a picture of me like one of those millionaire Youtubers, let me tell you it’s not that much. But I could definitely tone it down and have a smaller collection.

Let’s start with my list of things I won’t be buying this year and get to know why I included them here.

1. Diary/Journals

I LOVE writing things down especially when it comes to blog planning. I get attracted to fancy stationery a lot which I think is just a wastage of money (for me). No matter how pretty it looks, I can never justify the price tag. Also, taking a notebook everywhere becomes a task so I have been trying to switch completely to technology. I have also noticed that I get carried away while writing and end up over-planning aka wasting my time.

While Evernote and Trello are fancy apps/sites to use, nothing beats Google! I use spreadsheets to plan and schedule my content and I can access it anywhere.

This would save me quite some money and paper! An eco-friendly approach wouldn’t hurt anyone 🙂

10 Things I Won't Buy This Year Diary
10 Things I Won’t Buy This Year | Diary

2. Shower Gels

One thing that I’ve never repeated is a shower gel. I love trying out new flavours/variants and stocking them. Recently, I finished one bottle and have 3 more to go (one of them is HUGE) before I run out of them. So I believe I have enough for the year.

Also, I’m thinking of switching back to soaps as the empty plastic bottles of shower gels are a waste. Generally, soaps are cheaper but I’ll be trying out some exotic handmade ones so I don’t think I’ll have any savings because of this switch.

3. Clothes

This one’s tricky! I won’t go out on random visits to malls just to see what’s in there. And I won’t end up buying something I don’t really NEED whilst those visits. I remember how I used to declutter my wardrobe every 3-4 months and end up clearing half of it. 

The loophole is that if and when I have a trip/vacation or some family event/ festival coming up, I’ll definitely buy some.

4. Handbags

I don’t have those expensive designer bags and most of them are from Miniso. Right now, I have 3 sling bags/ crossbody bags, 3 cute wallets and 1 backpack. The backpack is for office and that’s what I use every day with one of the wallets inside.

I have more than enough and won’t buy any handbags this year.

10 Things I Won't Buy This Year Handbag
10 Things I Won’t Buy This Year | Handbags

5. Footwear

Whether it’s my love for them or the fact that my dad is in this business, I have always had more than an acceptable amount of shoes/sandals with me. But do I need ALL of them? Blah.

Currently, I have 4 flip flops, 2 bellies/mojris, 1 pair of trainers and a pair of high heels. I am fine with this number and don’t wish to expand it. My collection is cute and works with everything so I wouldn’t be buying any footwear this year.

6. Any Beauty/Makeup Product That’s Not Cruelty-Free

A part of my 2019 Beauty Goals is to have a 100% cruelty-free beauty stash by the end of this year. For that to happen, I need to use up my existing non-cruelty-free products first. Buying something that comes in the same category would just drag me down, instead of getting me a step closer to my cruelty-free goal.

7. Eyeshadow Palettes & Lipsticks

Eyeshadow palette is one of the things I won’t buy this year! Right now, I have 4 eyeshadow palettes and 2 singles which are all drugstore and I like them. However, eyeshadows aren’t something I wear even on a weekly basis. So I won’t be buying any more this year.

I have promised to treat myself with a high-end eyeshadow palette next year if I’m able to hit pan on 5 existing shadows by the end of 2019.

10 Things I Wont Buy This Year Eyeshadows
10 Things I Won’t Buy This Year | Eyeshadows

BTW, another beauty goal of this year is to not buy any makeup for 6-months and till now I’m going strong. While it is not for the entire year but I’ll still try to limit the makeup I buy for the rest of the year.

8. Nailpaints

For me, one beauty product that ALWAYS goes waste has to be nail paints. I have never finished one up and throw them because they’ve dried or I don’t enjoy the shade anymore. Currently, I have 5 and I’m not planning to buy any more this year.

9. Sheet Masks

While sheet masks are in trend, I’ve no shame in accepting that I’ve used them just once in my life. And I have no plans of investing in them in near future. These are just too expensive for something that hydrates or brightens.

I’d rather invest in a good moisturizer or some molecules such as Niacinamide or Alpha Arbutin or Hyaluronic acid. And for masking, I prefer wash-off masks as they’re cheaper and help me detoxify. 


Related: My Current Favourite Detoxifying Wash-Off Mask


10. Plastic/ Paper Bags

This is completely off the beauty/fashion topic but I’ve made a point to not pay for plastic or paper bags and carry one myself. While some stores do provide paper bags for free, some charge up to INR 10. (Yes, a very small amount!) But I have so many paper bags now, that it’s better I carry one while going out for shopping.

Coming to plastic bags, gosh I have A LOT. They’re very harmful to the environment so I have made a point to carry a plastic bag in my backpack every day because I go for grocery shopping after work. That way I will use the ones I have before sadly disposing it off in the environment.

By: Rifat Yaseen · In: Lifestyle

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  1. Rajinder Singh says

    February 14, 2019 at 11:58 am

    Dear Rifat, must say good list keep adding things every year :-). God bless and good luck !

    Reply
    • Rifat Yaseen says

      February 15, 2019 at 12:18 am

      Thank you so much sir 🙂 Glad you gave this a read!

      Reply
  2. Kacie says

    January 21, 2019 at 12:46 am

    Have you thought about buying a reusable bag for when you go to the grocery Store?

    I use my plastic bags for the small trash bags in our bathrooms and for cat litter! The paper bags we use for our recycling – so we at least try to reuse what we can!

    Great post otherwise! I really need to look into how much I’m spending on these things myself and cut back!

    Reply
    • Rifat Yaseen says

      January 21, 2019 at 9:06 am

      Hey! I have a lot more than usual plastic bags which I’m using for trash can as well. When all of them exhaust, I’ll start with a reusable bag. Currently, I just keep 1 big poly bag that I use every time I go grocery shopping. Thank you so much 😀

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#AD Earlier this month I got to try @thefaceshopin #AD Earlier this month I got to try @thefaceshopindia_official CHIA SEED ADVANCED range. It has 4 products, all meant for hydrating and moisturizing your skin (which they did! Continue reading)

The 🌟 ingredients here are: 𝘾𝙝𝙞𝙖 𝙎𝙚𝙚𝙙 𝙀𝙭𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙨 (it's a good skin conditioning/nourishing ingredient I've seen in a bunch of other much-loved products too!) and 𝗩𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻 𝗯𝟭𝟮 (it's an antioxidant and has skin conditioning properties too - a little difficult to find more info on this one).

Anyway here are my thoughts on this range,

𝗛𝘆𝗱𝗿𝗼 𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗿 𝗵𝘆𝗱𝗿𝗼 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘁?

Since they're both hydrators and I'm a skincare minimalist 😌 I'd pick one and it has to be the toner. super hydratant👌It matches my hydration needs much better than the mist.

𝗛𝘆𝗱𝗿𝗼 𝗹𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗿 𝗵𝘆𝗱𝗿𝗼 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺?

Both, depending on skin's needs. 

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𝐍𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐧, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐛𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐛 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐧𝐨 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝.

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜 𝗱𝗶𝗱𝗻'𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲?

The smell. You guys know I'm a picky doll💅 when it comes to how my skincare smells and all these remind me of greek yoghurt (which I don't like) - sweet-sour. I'd rather have them get rid of fragrance or tone the scent down.

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Not every product will remove your acne or stubbor Not every product will remove your acne or stubborn dermal PIH. But do they suck? Maybe they have ingredients that will help you in maintaining your skin?🤔

In many cases, the brands are to be blamed too. They tend to overpromise and underdeliver which sets wrong expectations in consumers.

👉 Anyway, these were just my thoughts and idk about the research behind it. Take it with a grain of🧂

✨Feel free to drop in your skincare queries.✨

‼️By no means I want to imply that skincare is as important and necessary as food. That was just an analogy.😌
I see too many "Oh it's just hydrates the skin" bu I see too many "Oh it's just hydrates the skin" but,

What if your skin is dull because it's not hydrated? What if you're breaking out because your barrier is impaired due to lack of moisturization? What if your face feels tight because it's dehydrated? What if the minor fine lines are a result of lack of hydration? Hydrate your skin... with skincare products ofc, not by drinking water😋

PS: apologies for playing with the emoji. I got carried away🥳

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I have a super low maintenance hair (not the scalp I have a super low maintenance hair (not the scalp though but that's another story). They're straight, moderately frizzy, not too dry, and not too dense. Now let's see how the @nykaabeauty Onion & Fenugreek haircare worked for me. (gifted)

TL;DR Shampoo is good.

𝗗𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗼𝗼 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗳𝗮𝗹𝗹?
I don't know. I do shed a lot of hair in general but I don't sit and count them. I don't want to stress about nothing. I do have certain areas that lack density but idc atm, I'll marry rich and use the guy's money to get a transplant or something.

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𝙀𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙄 𝙨𝙠𝙞𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙞-𝙙𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙧𝙪𝙛𝙛 𝙨𝙝𝙖𝙢𝙥𝙤𝙤, 𝙢𝙮 𝙨𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙥 𝙙𝙞𝙙𝙣'𝙩 𝙜𝙚𝙩 𝙞𝙩𝙘𝙝𝙮.🥳

Which shampoo are you using these days? Do you like it? Hate it? Meh it?

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I expect a conditioner to soften and detangle my hair. And this one failed. The softness is OK-ish, doesn't help with frizz, and my hair feel tangled. It's as good as not applying any conditioner. And as I said, my hair is easy.

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Which nailpolish remover would you choose?
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Khadija (@beautyanomaly) tagged me to share 8 thin Khadija (@beautyanomaly) tagged me to share 8 things about myself and it really took me a while to think of all these points. I didn't know that I didn't know much about myself but here you go:

1. I've always achieved well academically just by putting in the least efforts.

2. I like to impress people (both online and offline) and make them happy so I get really nervous and tired while socialising.

3. I haven't watched Harry Potter. Ok maybe I have (a part or two) when I was a kid. But I really don't care about it. Same with DC/Marvel or whatever sci-fi comic stuff that exists. Don't unfollow me.

4. I like to overplan, decorate, and organize. I can't wait to have my own place so I can decorate it the way I want.

5. I'm very scared of October. I have lost 3 close family members in the past 3 years - each of them in October.

6. I'm camera shy and that's why I've been delaying my YouTube appearance. I just don't wanna look ugly and awkward.😭

7. I sometimes sniff my underarms on days I don't take a shower. The weird smell makes me gag but I still like it.

8. No matter how hard things get, I never actually complain about life. I'm always very grateful. Might be surprising because I don't talk much about positivity and shitting rainbows🌈. But that's because it's a part of my nature so I just think it's like, idk, brushing your teeth? You don't need to tell people to do that because you think they already do.

Tell me one RANDOM thing about yourself. Please embarrass yourself so I feel better🥰
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For more than 3 years, I stepped out of the shower with red, itchy skin mostly on the upper body. It'd take at least half an hour to settle down no matter how much I moisturized. I changed bodywashes and soaps and even changed water as I moved  cities but nothing worked.

Initially I accepted that this is how it's going to be but the annoyance made me decide to visit a doctor and get it checked. But the pandemic happened and my appointment was postponed indefinitely.

Around the same time, I found the Aveeno Skin Relief Body Wash. It was fragrance free and had oatmeal to soothe the skin. It felt like a perfect match so I asked my followers about it. They unanimously approved it✔️ (thanks guys!) and I went ahead with the purchase.

Ever since I have started using it, there hasn't been a single case of redness. No itching either. So gentle, calming, non-foaming - truly a skin relief💙 I can't imagine trying any other body wash now 🥺 Thank you for making this!

With love❤️
Rifat

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