my consumption rules for the rest of 2026

my consumption rules for the rest of 2026 to buy less & buy better we're about halfway through 2026 so if you set the intention to consume less this year now is a really great opportunity to review and update your consumption rules so let's go through what my consumption rules are for 2026 and I'll let you know if I have any updates Consumption Rules for 2026 Overarching Theme: Refine Intentionally Starting with a January No-Buy for Clothes + Beauty Clothes: • Focus on Quality Per Wear • 4x Seasonal Closet Refresh + Edit • 72 Hour Waiting Rule Beauty: • Focus on Project Pan - use things up first • Build my signature routine + edit down to this only • Quarterly Beauty Indulgence Home: • 12-item Edit: donate one item per month • Must fit into my next home overarching the consumption theme that I set for this year is to refine intentionally meaning that I am slowly discarding and upgrading certain things and making sure that they're being replaced with the better or best version the whole goal or best version the whole goal here is to only own things that I am absolutely obsessed with I started this year off with a January no buy and I'm planning to do a no buy July just to reset a little bit the first half of 2026 for me has been very very expensive I've definitely been a little loosey goosey with my credit card we gotta get things back in order anyways I break up my consumption rules into three separate categories clothes so let's get into it when it comes to my clothes I generally focus on quality per wear meaning that I want to have the highest quality item for the clothes that I'm wearing all the time the second rule I'm actually gonna be shifting to a 2 x seasonal refresh when I made these rules at the beginning of this year when I made these rules at the beginning of this year I was living in Chicago now I live in LA and we don't have winter here and lastly I do follow a 72 hour waiting rule honestly I think I wanna make this a little bit longer for the back half of the year so I think I might extend this to a week moving on to beauty my project pan is still in motion I do receive a lot of PR and gifting though but I've done a really good job of offloading that to my friends and my family I can't say I've purchased no new products but I have purchased very very minimal ones number two I have actually accomplished building out my signature routine if you want a video on that let me know however I've not been able to completely edit down to just that and like I said that's cause I do receive a lot of PR and some of these products I wanna try so the quarterly beauty indulgence has been an amazing rule honestly I might up this to a monthly beauty indulgence because I'm feeling a little crazy in Q1 I got a lymphatic drainage massage in Q2 I got Botox in Q3 I'm probably gonna re up my Botox and I'm gonna get a massage so you know at that point we might as well just do it every month and to be honest I'm really enjoying spending my money on that right now it's making me feel really good and lastly home stuff I'm in the curation phase of my current apartment so my first rule is no more furniture I have enough furniture in this house all the big stuff is purchased I honestly did a great job of making sure any new furniture that I bought for this new apartment would be like long term furniture for future places so that's a win what I need to do is fill up my walls this is the only piece of art in my entire apartment the rule that I'm gonna be implementing for this is I need to mock up clearly what I'm gonna be looking for and how I'm going to style the art on my wall either in chat GPT or in Canva before I buy anything rlly into this vibe art is very expensive I have a tendency to like impulse buy art and we're not doing that this go around anyways let me know what your consumption rules are and if you're making any changes for the rest of this year