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Hi guys, its been almost half a year since I draft my unpublished article haha

At the end of 2024 has been though for me cause of the L word going on my workplaces, 2 of my junior got hit by it like a trucks.

I still works on that place though but now there's new policy of no one can work from home anymore, we're going to our office everyday monday to friday 9 to 5, it's tiring for me cause I have to take krl and mrt (both are public train on my country) and almost everyday it would look like this.

And government has been somewhat pranking us by raising our tax on item from 11% to 12% but it cancelled due to high demand of cancellation by our people (Thank you guys, really!).

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Now since the prices has been raised for some items, I gotta save up some money to brace myself for daily needs, starting to cut off some useless buy or something people often says impulsive buying.

Scrolling through twitter I found some netflix movies called "Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy" spoiler alert, they say big corpo are making us to feel good to buy from them like recycle method where we often pick them even though usually it more expensive than the normal one but we feel contribute to society by using recycleable products or using electric vehicle that produces almost no smokes right? guess what, wrong!

They put sticker of recycleable products or diffrentiate between recycleable and nonrecycleable waste, but it says we only can recycle 1/10 of our produced waste, the only logical solution is to produce less plastics, I mean like the big corpo one, what I can do? is to buy less.

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Now here are my plan for 2025:

1. Wait! hype thing down before buys.
   I gotta calm my nerve before clicking that sofa even though I would miss my chance to buy that sofa for $1 less I mean come one $71 and $70 aren't so diffrent, lets take our time to think, is this sofa really my needs? can't it wait another month? it is? okay lets buy that then.
2. Spend less on social media
   Yes, I often impulsive buying cause I saw my friends new smartwatch. That's pretty avoidable if I consume less social media and focus on whats important on my life, I reduce time for my online game to offline or singleplayer games too.
3. Is there enough space on my house?
   I learnt this from minimalist culture to prepare items space before buying them, cause it will trouble and cluttering my house with pile of junk. It has been helping me to reduce my addiction of online shopping.

I think that's it, there is much more information but keeping it simple makes it more achievable and on the mid year I can just add more to that list than making perfect list that un-achievable.

Till my next article meet us again👋