- SansLux.com is an exploration of luxury and necessity. Each week I will give up one item or habit & blog about my experience.
Monthly Archives: October 2009
Guest Post: Week 2, Plastics
We already compost food scraps on site in our own office composter and reduce and reuse whenever possible. We take computers to e-cyclers and other hard-to-recycle items to the appropriate recycling centers. Surely we were fairly eco-conscious folks, we reasoned. Avoiding purchasing plastic should be second nature by day two of the challenge. Our first attempt lasted precisely until lunch time.
Week 4: Dining Out – Epilogue
After not really cooking for, oh, 35 years -- 3 weeks without break of cooking every night was a bit rough. It takes a great deal more mental energy for me to prepare a meal than it does for folks who have been doing it for ages. Admittedly, I was pining for a drive-thru by week's end as I stared at the Spaghetti Squash on my counter and wondered what, in the name of all that is vaguely food-like, to do with it. Seriously. Total bachelor moment. I must have stood there staring at it with a deeply furrowed brow for a good twenty minutes.
Guest Blog: ReDirect Guide Gives Up Sugar!
Last week I mentioned that I'd received word from the fabulous folks at the ReDirect Guide that their office was inspired by SansLux and that they'd decided, as a team, to join in by giving up sugar and all sweeteners for the week. That's an intense thing to give up, and I asked them if they'd be willing to write up a guest post to tell us all about it. Here it is!
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Week 4: Dining In Prologue
I struggled a bit about what to give up this week. In some ways, giving up spending extra money at all was pretty encompassing. I thought about giving up drinking anything but water this week, and had actually decided to do so, and then I woke up this morning and downed a Diet Coke before I even thought about it. Caffeine-addiction is a powerful agent of denial.
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Week 3: Epilogue
I struggled with myself all morning about whether or not I was going to give in and have breakfast, or if I was going to stick to it and not spend. I didn't want to make other people uncomfortable by hovering there at the end of the table as the only one not eating, but I didn't want to break the challenge either. Ultimately, I decided to stay true to SansLux. I drank so much water at breakfast that I had to pee 4 times in 2 hours.
Week 3 – Prologue: Making it Hurt
This week will pose some interesting challenges. It already has, to some degree, and I've already committed to breaking my no-spend rule as an exception where it's impacting someone else negatively.
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