Reduce is my word for 2018. Whether it’s reducing my time on social, reducing my spending habits or reducing the stuff that I own.
In September 2017, my dear friend Petros Kkolas suggested I watch a documentary on Netflix, titled ‘Minimalism’.
I was hooked, converted, a believer and probably recognised that I’ve always been a minimalist all my life and now I knew for sure.
Doesn’t mean that I behaved like one throughout my life, oh no! I was a shopaholic for most of my life, especially via the internet and of course the seductress Amazon. It’s interesting actually, I asked them if I could see my total spend from when I first started buying from Amazon and guess what? They can’t supply that figure, they said you have to go through each year on your profile and add it up manually.
Not many folks will do that right?!
Well I did and you can see the chart below. Total spend for my lifetime with Amazon is £5555.27. Now you would have thought that my spend in 2017 would be less compared to previous years because I had found Minimalism (September 2017) and yet it is higher compared to the previous 9 years. Oops!
Well that was mainly due to some technology spend and it included a scanner, which will assist me in reducing my paperwork by scanning most of it and saving it to the cloud.
If I discount the scanner and some microphone kit for making videos on my smartphone, the spend for 2017 would have amounted to just £74.00, 2nd lowest in the past 9 years.
Anyway on target to beat that during 2018.
Happy reducing!