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A Fun Way to Stop Buying Things You Don't Need

A Fun Way to Stop Buying Things You Don't Need

Sep 9, 2016-- "A few years ago, illustrator and editorial cartoonist Sarah Lazarovic felt like she was buying too much junk. So she stopped shopping for a year, then documented her withdrawals and, eventually, all the lessons and tips and tricks she learned about not buying things. Instead of buying the items she coveted, she made paintings of them.During that time, instead of buying the items she coveted, she made paintings of them. That led to the illustrated book called 'A Bunch of Pretty Things I Did Not Buy'. It also led to doing that same "covet counseling" for others. She calls her project the "Office of Divestment." She will draw the thing you want to buy. You get the painting, and you won't have to buy the thing. A deal." (18549 reads)


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