feel like it's kind of more of like a mental game that mom that's not me i think it's okay if
i just like have underwear lines hey guys it's jen today i wanted to be sharing with you my anti-haul
i did a video kind of like this a couple years ago talking about 10 things that i
no longer buy anymore now that it's springtime it's time for people to be
cleaning out their closets going through their things and reassessing what they have and what
makes them happy to have so as i was thinking about this i just thought it would be the perfect
time to kind of share with you the things that i am no longer buying if you are new to my channel i
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my next video i post videos on saturdays anyway let's go ahead and hop into 10 things i no longer
buy anymore the first thing that i no longer buy anymore are sweaters that have a majority
of fabrics made of synthetic materials so i am a huge advocate of wearing clothing that
is mostly natural materials i love wearing them they're always super super soft and they keep me
nice and temperature regulated whether i'm wearing them in the spring or in the cold weather for the
most part my one exception is if the garment is specifically designed in a way where those
synthetic materials adds to the design or fit of that particular item i have a couple shirts that
have like a bit of a sculpting effect and you know you just aren't going to have every kind of cut
and form using just like cotton or wool but when it comes to sweaters when it comes to
things that i want to keep me warm i really rely on cotton and wool and cashmere it's just one of
those things where before i shop for a specific item i always look at the material content before
i make the purchase and a lot of times even if i like the look of something i just won't buy it
if it's not the materials that i want to feel on my body i don't know if this is going to be
like a forever thing but it's definitely for right now i'm specifically going to call out
stilettos i'm talking about the really skinny heels look sometimes i do like a little bit of
height a little bit of lift if i'm going out or if i want to like go to an event and look
nicer but in terms of buying stilettos i'm just not gonna do it because if i need a stiletto and
have my feet be really uncomfortable for a certain period of time i'm just going to wear the few
pieces i already own and not go out of my way to buy something that is going to be worn on occasion
versus an everyday basis because especially with me now the lifestyle that i'm living right
now i have two young kids a three-year-old and a five-year-old it's just not practical for me to be
wearing stilettos on an everyday basis they hurt my feet i have size four women's feet and it's so
difficult to find stilettos that actually match the arch of my foot even if i'm wearing a dress
i just feel more comfortable in a pair of boots or sneakers that's just where i'm at right now
and i'm okay letting go of the idea of that like picture-perfect mom with the full perfectly curled
hair family all holding hands and the moms and these pointy stilettos like that is just not who i
am that mom that's not me and if that's not you that's okay too the next thing that i no longer
purchase anymore are shoes and purses just because i think in the past a lot of times
especially before i had kids truthfully sometimes i would just feel like i wanted a new handbag in
my bag rotation because i was a little bit bored of the one that i was wearing or a new pair of
shoes just because i felt like it made my outfits more exciting to buy something new and really i'm
trying to push back on that kind of compulsion of like looking for new shoes just because i'm
bored or looking for a new handbag just because i feel like it even if it's like a big birthday or
celebration or specific reason which is when i would be probably more likely to have a big
purchase like that now i've found myself really stopping to assess how i feel about my bags after
i've owned them for one year two year three years five years and looking back and thinking well
which of my bags do i still love after five years and truthfully a lot of them cycle in and out so
when i think of like the bags that i want to buy which do tend to be less frequent but more
expensive now i still want to be very very careful about how i'm spending that money because even the
bags that are very expensive when i think about the bags that were super popular five years ago
they are not what everybody's wearing anymore and i honestly feel like a lot of the handbag
trends of like oh look the little teeny tiny micro bags were hot for a minute or like the
really really oversized bags the way that i want to look at those kind of purchases now is really
really not buying anything until i absolutely fall in love with something and then even after then i
will sit on it for another month or two because if i waited this long i can wait another month or two
and sometimes my feelings about it change now what tends to happen for me i don't know about you
i feel like when i love something and then i'm gonna buy it and then i stop myself a month
later sometimes just the adding it in my cart and then not buying it was enough of fulfilling that
thing that i felt like was missing inside for me to just not buy it in the first place and then i
realized i felt totally the same and the reason i wanted to buy it was more because of how i was
feeling internally more than the actual joy that i needed from buying the actual thing i
feel like it's kind of more of like a mental game than like a physical thing the next thing that i
don't haul anymore is furniture that fulfills the need for right now and what i mean by that is a
lot of times in the past when i would live in like an apartment or somewhere where i don't think i'm
going to necessarily live there for a very long period of time i would just buy something that was
more cheap or something that was just fulfilling the purpose for right now this will work for right
now but the problem is that furniture is so difficult to get rid of once it's in your home
more so than something like clothes or bags where it's easy to just wear it for a while and then
maybe give it to goodwill furniture is so much more difficult to get rid of you really have
to be more intentional about listing it on these like resale sites or having like a trash company
come and pick it up at a special time sometimes you just feel like because it's such a large item
you don't want to get rid of it because you feel like oh but i could have used it for something
honestly it's so much more gratifying to just save up your money buy exactly the thing that you want
even if it's more expensive than you wanted to pay for it because i found that those are the items
i still own now after like years of moving from location to location the things that i don't want
to keep around and i still have around are those larger pieces that i decided to buy from like ikea
or something but now when it's time to like buy something new i'm like uh this time i want to
make it really worth it something that i am going to love 10 years from now furniture sticks around
for years and years and years so the next thing i am not hauling it almost kind of makes me laugh
because i know this one is definitely something that is an anti-haul for right now for me i'm
talking about nail polish truthfully the reason why i even have this on the list is because i've
been getting gel manicures on my nails and it's something that i realized brings me so much joy
i love nail art i always have also i feel like my nails have been so much stronger and they've
been able to grow out longer because i'm not just having these like battered nails because it has
that extra layer of protection so it just makes me feel like my hands are really feminine and always
ready if i need to be like on camera or in a photo i love getting my nails professionally done and so
i no longer have been using nail polish on my fingernails unless i'm painting arya's nails or
i'm painting my toes but truthfully on my toes i don't do crazy colors i really kind of stick
to like white or pale pink pinks reds sometimes purples sometimes orangey pinks so that's just
kind of the color palette i stick with with my toes so that means i really do not need to go buy
any nail polish i literally have all of the shades i would already choose to use so i think that that
makes it a pretty clear anti-haul pick i'm not going to buy any new polishes because i already
have what i need speaking of color palettes that brings me to the next point which are clothes
that are outside of my color palette something that i've really been thinking proactively about
especially through the last two years is what is my color palette like kind of really thinking hard
about what are the colors where when i wear them it makes me feel really myself i used to just wear
all kinds of colors a lot of bright things a lot of crazy patterns a lot of like all over prints
and that felt really me at the time and i just feel like over the last two or three years
that has really become not my personal style i do like things that are a little more muted
i love things that are white i wear white a lot i wear a lot of blue jeans i wear a lot of black
i wear a lot of neutrals and then i also really love fall tones so i like coppers and burgundies
so knowing that when i see something like a dress or a skirt and i'm like oh my gosh it's so cute
but it's like a color that i wouldn't wear it's easy for me to say okay if i pass on that item
no big deal i've been really happy sticking with the similar colors that i have and then that way
every time when i'm trying to look for something to wear from my wardrobe everything coordinates
with everything else because i really love this kind of like autumn palette i've been kind of
intrigued here and there from like the idea of color palettes and things that match certain
body types and hair types and skin colors and hair colors and that sort of thing so if you guys are
interested in me doing a video talking about how to figure out what works with your own facial hair
body setup let me know because i find that kind of thing pretty intriguing it's fun to look into
color palettes in the past i've been so terrible about this even now it's just i don't know why
i have such an issue with this but the next thing i'm not buying are hair products until i
run out i think there's something about trying new shampoos and conditioners or like dry
shampoos or different things like that that i just naturally gravitate toward i think me oh maybe
this shampoo is going to be the thing that makes my hair feel so clarified and it's going to be so
soft and so awesome i just have to be like you do not need more shampoo sometimes i just have
like six bottles of who knows what in the shower and ben will just have to stop me and be like you
only have one head why do we have three different sets of shampoo and conditioner in the shower
let me know if that is just me or if you guys have that problem too but i'm like
such a product hoarder sometimes i just want to try a bunch of things at the same time it's like
going to a meal and not getting to taste all of the delicious things i'm korean
i want my banchan but i know that doesn't actually make logical sense it just makes more places in my
shower for like soap scum to stick on let's not if i just have what i need and use it up then i can
go through the rest of the thing that i'm hoarding and not have to spend money it's kind of a win-win
and uh by default also a less cluttered shower so the next thing that i am not going to buy and this
i felt like this for a couple years already i am not going to buy thongs and thong back bodysuits
and for the life of me it is so frustrating because i adore body suits but i cannot stand
that the default bodysuit has butt floss like why i get that they like the idea of like not showing
panty lines and that's cool but i'm also in the camp where it's like i don't think i'm embarrassed
if people know that i wear underwear i don't know maybe that's a very subversive thing to say
i think it's okay sometimes if i just like have underwear lines clearly if i'm wearing
like a super tight skirt and i want it to be seamless i'm going to be wearing like
seamless underwear which you can also buy in not thongs because i just i'm not comfortable
wearing thongs personally i can't ever get it to feel comfortable no matter how comfortable they
say oh this one is the most comfortable thong it still feels like i've got a wedgie to me again let
me know if that's just me or if you're also in the no thong camp let me know in the comments because
it's actually something i feel pretty uh secretly passionate about like i will not buy a thong back
bodysuit i've had times where i've bought a bodysuit not seeing the back butt part
and then being like oh no and the worst thing is when you're trying it on because i i get hopeful
and i put it on but it's like over my regular underwear and then i'm just like
no i can't i can't i can't i can't do this and and look if it's comfortable for you i am
so happy for you because i i'm just jealous i wish it were comfortable for me and i wish i could deal
with it and i just personally can't speaking of thongs the next item that i am no longer buying
are another thong type of thong not for your butt for your toes thong flip-flops i feel like i grew
up in the age where everybody's default sandal was the flip-flop and i'm sure flip-flops will come
back at some point in time but i just remember horror story moments where you would get a new
pair and it would rub that skin in between your big toe and it would cause blisters unless you
got one with a really really super soft strap you would have to wait for your toes to toughen up
like the toe skin i again don't know if my body needs to adjust to something that i don't even
think is necessary i guess i am now just in the no flip flops camp as well so no thongs in the butt
no thongs in the toes uh if something has a toe strap and i think will this have the potential
to give me a blister i would just rather not wear it in the first place like there's plenty
of other sandals out there there's plenty of their shoes that i can wear right away they're
not going to cause blisters or force my body to feel like there's something wrong with me when i
could just not wear the product and be perfectly happy and then the last item and things that i am
anti-hauling we are not going to buy these things are aerosol can dry shampoos i've talked about dry
shampoos quite a few times here and there i love dry shampoos that just are a powder in a bottle
for some reason all canned dry shampoos they leave this heaviness it's almost like a sticky feeling
that i really really hate some of them are very effective but i just don't like the sort of like
thick feeling it gives to my hair it's like the filler stuff it's not just the stuff that absorbs
in your hair it's like whatever they use to make it come out in an aerosol i feel like it sticks to
my hair and i just don't like it not to mention when i have to shampoo my hair after using an
aerosol can dry shampoo it just sucks up all of the shampoo suds like it takes multiple times of
washing my hair to get that feeling out of my hair for me to feel like my hair is actually
fully clean and i feel like that sort of defeats the purpose of the dry shampoo which is supposed
to make your hair feel cleaner for longer if you guys haven't tried powder dry shampoos before and
that's something that you're interested in looking for i'll actually leave a couple of my favorite
recommendations down in the info box below because sometimes they can be a little bit tricky to find
so hopefully you can try it out and then confirm to me if you also agree that they are way better
than canned dry shampoos it's just everybody only knows the canned ones but if you have the powder
ones and you try it out you'll know they're so much better okay that is it for my list of things
i do not want to buy anymore my auntie haul if you enjoyed this video and want to see me do
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