“For some, it can feel a bit restrictive, especially if you’re used to little ‘treat yourself’ purchases,” said “Crush Your Money Goals” author Bernadette Joy Cruz Maulion. “If it feels too intense, it could lead to a bit of burnout or even a splurge at the end.”

Remember you can treat yourself without spending, too! You don’t have to “miss out” on culture just because you aren’t buying stuff. Often you’re just buying the idea of convenient access. As an added bonus, the more control you take over your arts and entertainment, the less you have to deal with propaganda inserted into it.

• Google

• Aldi’s

• Target

• Amazon

• Meta

• McDonald’s

• Molson Coors

• Ford Motor Co.

• John Deere

• Lowe’s

• Harley-Davidson

• Tractor Supply Co.

• Toyota Motor Corp.

This is the truest thing I have read this year

This essay seems relevant to help more fully frame the question.

But in fact, gender is maintained by constant effort from everyone in society. Imagine what a truly genderless society would look like: no he/she pronouns. No seeing a stranger and thinking of them as male or female. No such thing as being gay or straight. People of all body types wearing pants or skirts as they please. The vision I’m describing isn’t a fantasy based on some fundamental change to how the world works. It would happen if tomorrow morning we all got out of bed and decided to stop paying any attention to gender.

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[There are people who…] do care about gender. They have an internal sense that they need to look, dress, and act a certain way that conforms to their society’s idea of their gender. If they aren’t recognised as their gender, it makes them uncomfortable. These are the people who made our language have he and she pronouns. They’re the people who feel satisfied and fulfilled when they get addressed as “sir” or “madam”. They are where gender comes from.