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How A No-Buy Year Can Change Your Brain’s Response To Consumerism

The Financial Confessions

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The Wild Thing About My No-Buy Year

For the first six months of her no-buy year, Julia Louis-Dreyfus says she was in withdrawal. She felt herself psychotically doing all the things that she used to do and then only stopping right before making a purchase. Six months in, "I didn't feel like I wanted those things so badly" The author is now working on cultivating happiness by hacking into her inner demons.

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