Popularity, swingometers and the new challenge

How very thrilling - not only are two people following my blog, but three people have voted in my poll! I suspect one of them of taking my previous post's title literally and voting more than once, but I'm not complaining - two people read my blog! On the downside, we have something of a hung Parliament, with regards to the results, and my Peter Snow swingometer shows that each of the three options have an equal 33% of the vote.

Still, in the best tradition of autocratic dictatorships, the poll has been rigged and I'm happy to tell you, with my outsized military cap in place, that I've decided to go with the 'don't buy anything new for a week' option. And I'll tell you for why: my cupboards are quite well stocked with food at the moment, so 'not visiting a supermarket' would be too easy and not worth blogging about. Refusing all surplus packaging sounds good, but I'll do that one another time. In truth, this coming week falls between two niece's birthdays, so I know I can avoid buying anything new for at least this one week!

If you'd like to join in, here are the rules...or maybe I should call them 'ideals', so we don't feel quite so bad when we don't achieve them!

1. Aim not to buy anything new for a whole week, except for food (you don't have to forage in the

bins behind the Kentucky Fried)
2. ...but you can buy second-hand or use Freecycle

You're not banned from acquiring stuff, you're just aiming to reduce what you buy and not to buy new. No need to worry about the economy finally going belly-up, because there appear to be only three of us doing it!

I'm also going to keep up the kitchen-roll thing to, as that turned out to be quite easy and did, I think, make a difference.

Disclaimer: Mrs Ruby and the 'Do One Thing' blog do not endorse the idea of autocratic dictatorships.