Women’s Personal Finance

✨ happy 4th Women’s History Month since we lost Roe ✨

Don’t let anyone tell you that you’re overreacting this month.

Ps. I’m going to spend some time writing about this for this Tuesday’s newsletter - for those who want those long form thoughts (which are about much more than *just* clothes): womenspersonalfinance.org/socials%EF%B...

Q: Is this a ban on *new* clothes, or *all* clothes?

A: *ALL* clothes. I don’t buy clothes, period.

The ways I get new to me clothes:

Hand me downs
Buy Nothing
Clothing swaps
The (very occasional) gifts

My clothes buying ban is 9 YEARS OLD today 🥳🥳🥳🤯

It began as a 1 year goal as the sustainable way to wear out my clothes to have a minimalist wardrobe, but it has since morphed into a much bigger lifestyle change.

And the more I learn about the fashion industry, the less I think I’ll ever go back.

Doomhydrating!!!

Three things to do today:

1. Add $10 to your emergency fund

2. Delete 20 photos from your phone (or 200)

3. Do at least one thing that doesn’t cost or earn money - because anticapitalist joy is important

Love,

Women’s Personal Finance, not WomenSPF

Hey. Doomscroll check point time.

The doom will still be there in the morning.

Turn off the internet. Put down your phone. Give your brain a break.

New to me clothes come from:

Buy Nothing
Clothing swaps
Hand me downs
The (very occasional) gifts

But I have spent $0 on clothing for myself - new or thrifted - since before March 1, 2017.

Tomorrow marks NINE YEARS since I’ve bought any clothes for myself 🤯

What might make you feel better:

Doomcooking

Doomcrafting

Doomnapping

Doomdonating

Doomcallingyourrepresentatives

Doomwalking

Doomstretching

Doomgardening

I know it’s tempting, but doomshopping isn’t going to make you feel better today.

👀

The ultimate goal of the regime is to prevent a midterm election…

Hey maybe we just shouldn’t bomb anyone.

Three things to do today:

1. Add an extra bag of beans or rice to your next shopping trip

2. Clean your dryer vent (not just the lint trap!)

3. Spend min 1 hour with your phone off (or airplane mode)

Love,

Women’s Personal Finance, not WomenSPF

Another day with no money spent ✔️

Because fuck funding this system.

In case we haven’t said it recently:

Abortion is healthcare

And there’s no such thing as financial freedom without reproductive freedom.

That would be amazing.

Free childcare for everyone is a good thing, actually.

Three things to do today:

1. Open up that HYSA for your emergency fund. Don’t wait another month!!

2. Check your fridge & counter - what food needs to get eaten this weekend?

3. Sunscreen on your part (a Q-Tip can be a good way to apply)

Love,

Women’s Personal Finance, not WomenSPF

Here’s my lovely bumpy nose, full profile 🥰

Hey. Your nose is unique and wonderful and I love it.

How boring would the world be if we all looked the same.

Yeah. It’s bad.

Give it up for three months, and see how you feel. ALL of us can go three months. Promise.

T-3 days until my clothes buying ban turns 9 years old

When you stop shopping as a way to combat boredom and as the only way for “me time,” you realize how much you weren’t actually shopping because you needed anything, and how much was just about filling a hole or finding short term dopamine.

To our trans community today:

You are so loved. And perfect just as you are.

I’m so fucking sorry for the way things are right now. They are monsters and none of this is okay.

3. Be informed of what’s going on in your city, county, and state. Because politics are local not just national

Love,

Women’s Personal Finance, not WomenSPF

Three things to do today:

1. Make some noise about the seriously fucked up new Kansas law making trans people’s licenses invalid overnight

2. Send $10 to a trans organization or mutual aid - they need financial support right now

After 5:30pm and there’s still daylight! 😍😍😍

JUST BECAUSE IT’S ON SALE DOESN’T MEAN BUYING IT WILL SAVE YOU MONEY