Introducing "Notober", the month of no shopping...

No - this is not confessions of a shopaholic. I honestly don't even think I have a problem (I know everyone says that, but I don't. I DON'T!). At the very least I am a functional shopper - meaning my credit cards are not smoking as I obsessively bid on that last commemorative on coin on QVC. 

So why am I making October "no shopping" month?  I could say that I want to save money, or that I've been listening to people who comment that they haven't seen me wear the same outfit in 6 weeks straight, or that I'm worried I might be an emotional shopper alleviating the pressures of life by buying cool stuff.  The truth is, I just want to do see if I can do it. Kinda like when I kicked coffee cold turkey (after first making an awesome pyramid of my collected cups). And because I think it's funny that everyone is so shocked that I'm doing it.

So off I go, into the land of fiscal responsibility and personal denial....