- SansLux.com is an exploration of luxury and necessity. Each week I will give up one item or habit & blog about my experience.
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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 2, Day 3: Scale of 1 to 10
Visions of bloated bellies and schmaltzy music and flies landing on the lashes of cow-eyed children who know way too much about suffering way too young, and are wondering why these do-good douchebags are pointing cameras at them instead of giving them a goddamn sandwich, some dignity and a pair of shoes floated through my head.
