Five Things I Stopped Buying After Building SharedOut.
I want to be clear about something before I write this post. I am not a minimalist. I have never been a minimalist. I am the person who bought a bread machine for my wife in 2019 because a YouTube video made it look therapeutic for her, used it four times, and then quietly relocated it to the back of the storeroom where it has been living peacefully ever since, judging her every time I open the door. I am also the person who built an entire app around the idea that people should stop buying things they don't really need. The irony is not lost on me. But here's the thing about building SharedOut — it has genuinely changed the way I think about buying things. Not in a dramatic, life-altering, declutter-your-soul kind of way. Just in a quiet, practical, "actually, do I really need to own this?" kind of way. Here are five things I stopped buying after I built SharedOut. Said with love, and with full acknowledgement that I probably should have figured all of this o...