I am dominating this no shopping thing. I mean, it’s only the second day but I’m doing fine. No problems here. Last night I immersed myself in work and The Bachelor. I didn’t even have time to think about making frivolous purchases when I was busy analyzing the most sick and twisted television show of all time.

I did, however, overhear a conversation between my roommate and her boyfriend in which she told him all about my vow of no shopping. Their conversation went a little something like this.

Roomie said: “Well, Emily is giving up shopping for the entire month of February.”

BF said something like: “Oh, that’s not hard. I go months without shopping all the time.”

Roomie said: “Yeah, but this is Emily we’re talking about. She stops at Macy’s on the way home from work and treats herself to stuff all the time.”

I got a kick out of it. It was pretty cute. And it made me realize that shopping was pretty much embedded into my normal daily activities. Which is fine…I think. And then someone else harassed me last night about my shopping abstinence. He pointed out that I had a ski trip planned this month and that I’m still planning on buying alcohol this month. I kindly explained to him that a ski trip was not shopping (not at all)…and that alcohol is one of my main food groups. And I decided yesterday that I’d keep buying groceries . So I’m keeping vodka on the list. After all, I’ll need it more than ever during this difficult month of no frivolities. I'm not necessarily trying to save money...just not shop!

So. There you have it. All is well in the land of no shopping!