I’m pathetically late in checking in to this blog after the holiday but whattayagonna do? I would say it’s my New Year’s resolution to blog more regularly, but I think we all know what sort of lie that would be: bald-faced and blatant.

So here is my ideas for a little personal project in the coming year!

I’d like to track every purchase I make in a way I’ve never done before. Starting this week, I’m going to be keeping a log of everything I buy and how I first heard about it (if it’s a new-to-me product) or how I decided to purchase it again (if it’s an old-to-me product). The thought came to me as I was googling some winter-weather tights a friend had talked about on Facebook that pretty much everything I buy is a direct influence of online word of mouth. I have no idea if this theory is true and I would like to test it. Boring stuff like food and toilet paper don’t count, though. That’s just too boring even for a data dork.

This project will have two useful outcomes: I’ll be able to see where I am most influenced, and I will hopefully learn to spend more smartly. Mostly, though, I just want to remember why I do the things I do.

Welp! That’s my new thing. What’s yours?

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