The move and all that existential pondering of belongings and overwhelm at more stuff in small apartment again lead me to attempt an acquisition diet.  I promised myself not to buy anything. Anything.  Not the impulse cute cheap necklace at say TopShop or tunicy thing at H & M.  I allowed for sneakers because the old pair was pushing disintegration and with warmer weather upon us, I’d like to be running more.  That’s it.  It is a weird thing not to just buy something.  So many of us do.  Just because.  To have something new to go out in, to cheer us up, because it looked cute on that girl at brunch at the next table.

I have plenty in my closet.  Acquisition diet means: save money, recycle what I do have, be resourceful, stay calm.  Yes, I want some new items, but this is an interesting exercise.  So much so that I am pondering extension into a third month.  It’s eco-friendlier too. Detractors will say I’m not helping the economy.  Oh, I live in NYC.  I leak money no matter what just being here.  I have a recording to finish anyway… I shouldn’t be out shopping. When I do, I obsess and the floodgates open.  So maybe I will go for April.  I’ll treat myself in May–the one year anniversary of my abstinence from television.