99 Books Still Unread!

Z-Louise
3 min readOct 11, 2024
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Lately I’ve been getting frustrated at all the junk cluttering up my life. I struggle to find what I’m looking for. It stresses me out and now I’ve hit breaking point. So I took a hard look at my life and did some investigating.

I’ve started to get more serious about my financial situation and educating my self on money. Last night I looked at all my orders for the last 5 years on my amazon account. I wrote down all the things I no longer have in my possession and the cost of it. These items are books I haven’t read, clothes I’ve worn once and got rid of. Impulse buys because I thought they would somehow help my life like an electrical manicure tool, skipping rope and so on.

I added up the total for each year:

2019 — £282.08
2020 — £379.59
2021 — £412.90
2022 — £974.86
2023 — £557.57

The total for those 5 years adds up to £2,607.00! And let me be clear this doesn’t include everything I ordered each year on Amazon! only the items I no longer have in my life or the 99 books I have still not read!

There are items I have ordered several times such as exercise equipment, Pilates balls, swiss balls, skipping ropes. I ordered 3 skipping ropes over the past 5 years and I never kept up with skipping because of…

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Z-Louise

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