Wouldn’t Want Week #1 to be TOO Good

Point total: 10 (1 gold, 4 silver, 2 bronze)

Recap

Week 1 was 100% NNY, but it wasn’t exactly a beautiful rebirth as a minimalist household like I’ve sometimes imagined. It was a normal week. If anything, we bought MORE than usual because Jonathan & the kids realized that the used book store is a green light! So four new (old) books.

Also: two eBay purchases. The first was Charlie and the Chocolate Factory book in Spanish for Jonathan, who is quickly narrowing the gap between his Spanish ability & mine (it’s just not fair that he studies Spanish all the time while I’m reading the google entertainment newsfeed). ANYWAY,  Spanish language novels are hard to find through the library (García Márquez is not quite his thing). 

The second eBay purchase was a dress for little sis that matches a 2nd hand one that big sis already has (we are suckers for matching dresses). Everybody happy, money saved, earth hopefully helped at least a little (compared to ordering both new).  

Our gold moment wasn’t dramatic.  We travel a lot, and we always use a Peapod for the baby (who is 1.5). Right before the trip, we found a little hole in the mesh (insert crying emoji). Damaged baby sleeping gear is one of those places we won’t go. Then we remembered we still have a travel-sized Pack n Play.  It’s nowhere near as convenient, but it’s FINE. #contentedness

Lastly, a NNY kid update: our son got an Amazon card for his birthday.  In our past life (last week) as prime members, everything would have been great! I expected a tantrum when I reminded him of our family goal, but then we remembered: Amazon used books. He’s happy with that, though We’re starting to feel like the endless online used options undermine the point of NNY. We’ll go a few more weeks using these rules, and if it doesn’t seem like we are getting desired result, we can make changes. Arriba y adelante!