Quote:
Originally Posted by issybird
Time to reset, like the sign in the hospital of days without falls. I’ve been there. Once you stop resisting that first purchase, the rest follow so naturally!
|
You're right. You know there was that voice in my head that said, "You've already blown October, may as well put off restraint till November..." but I resisted. I think I'm back on the right path. Not quite confident that I'm all the way there, but I'm at least thinking in the right direction.
Quote:
Originally Posted by pdurrant
Issy's right, of course. Just re-read the first post, try to ignore the oh-so-tempting 'bargains', and resolve to do better from now on.
I admit I also fell off the wagon this month because of an offer from Amazon. I ended up buying 10 books by the 11th October! But no more since, and I hope to exit October with no more purchases.
You can do it too!
|
I bought 22 this month. That's about 4x what I've bought the entire rest of the year. It was ugly. And normally my purchases are almost all non-fiction, as I'd been very good about getting my fiction from the library or KU. Not this time.
Quote:
|
Do you count free ebooks in this or is it just if spending money is involved. I get free ones all the time and don't think anything about it. It's just when money is transferring I try to be very cautious.
|
I don't count free books if I'm certain I would have wanted to purchase them anyway. I broke the "because it's free!" habit years ago (only after amassing hundreds I'll never read), and I've at least managed to maintain that.