Day 7. “What About Tampons?”

Day 7. 

Today was pretty uneventful and I managed to avoid all ability to impulse buy. I did however make the mistake of checking my emails. It’s not as you would think. There weren’t any heart agonising blasts from my favourite stores, just plain ones, including one from my beautiful girlfriend Rachel.

Sadly Rachel wrote to me about my blog with a very good question: “What about tampons?”

My initial response was, “Well I can buy anything I need from the supermarket…” But yes! The supermarket could potentially be a hazardous zone. I could go crazy with extra spending in there. I can do it anywhere! I am quite lucky that before these challenging 100 days of not shopping started Tim and I were in the habit of writing a shopping list. Rules were set and we were not allowed to stray from the list once we hit the supermarket. This would be useful. But I still need to stipulate a few more key agreements on my part in committing to my challenge:

No extra curricular purchases from the supermarket including anything that needs the phrase ‘Ooh I might need… insert unnecessary items such as hair pins, body scrubs, special hair towel thingy, lettuce dryer, cute shaped muffin trays, make-up sponges etc’.

Yes, any lady-needs like tampons or things pharmaceutical are allowed. (Isn’t this fair enough?!)

This does bring to play whether I’m allowed things like nail polish remover. Not nail polish, just the remover… Maybe if I sacrificed my coffee for one day I could buy this one and only thing?

Regrettably Rachel also emailed a question I have feared would be asked… “Ps- are you able to get your hair done?”

I cannot not get my hair done. I really really can’t!!

I still need to be able to get a job and can’t show up to interviews with not only black roots in my blonde-ish hair but –gasp- grey! No! I need my colour and cut. But how about this... How about if I experiment in home hairdressing? Not by me! God, I’d have the ultimate orange/blonde/ shaggy-dog-look totally down if I tried. I do think if I can work out a way that I don’t have to do my hair at home but someone else could, this solution is reasonable. But I’m happy to compromise. And maybe even find an environmental way to colour my hair. I’ll find a way…