I had tried it for January and never managed more than four days in a row before caving and buying a secret pie. Then I talked to another friend, Andrea Egan, who works for the UN as a results specialist on climate change projects. Just the words "Mum, can I ..." hang in the air, and my first reaction is to whoop a triumphant, "No!". It was freeing though, going into cavernous, neon-lit "everything shops" for a single pen and walking out with a single pen. I had more money, and time, and room to just buy the things that I really needed and liked.

Source: Otago Daily Times February 23, 2020 14:37 UTC