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一年来我什么都没买

But once she started to go through what she had, she realized many of the purchases didn't reflect who she actually was. "A little more than halfway through I realized I held on to stuff that I had bought for an aspirational self."

一旦她开始检查自己拥有的物品时，她发现很多物品都不能反应她的真实面貌。"清点刚超过一半的时候，我开始意识到：这些东西都是为了那个更有抱负心的自我而购买的。"

"Classical novels, like I would be an interesting person if I read those books. Or a camera thinking I would like to be the kind of person that takes better pictures," she said. After realising this, and sorting her belongings by what she had bought for "the person I am right now or the person I want to become," Flanders "got rid of the stuff the real me didn't actually want."

"经典小说，好像如果读了这些书我就会变得更有趣。或者买了一个相机，觉得自己会是那种能拍出好看照片的人，"她说道。意识到这一点之后，她开始整理为了"现在的我和我希望成为的那种人"而购买的物品，法兰德斯"扔掉了那些真实的我不想拥有的东西。"

This happened to be 70 percent of her belongings. Flanders also gave up frivolous shopping - banning purchases of everything except groceries, toiletries, gifts, and experiences. And while she was able to successfully endure a year without shopping, it wasn't easy to change her habits. Flanders said: "It was six months into it and I was still thinking about buying things.