YOGYAKARTA Entering the new year, the No Buy Challenge 2025 trend emerged. This trend has drawn attention on social media. Interestingly, this No Buy Challenge is echoed in the midst of unstable economic conditions, not only in Indonesia but in various countries.
No Buy Challenge is a challenge that is campaigned a lot on social media in the form of a commitment not to buy items that are less important for a certain period. This challenge is one of the responses of many people shopping for goods that are not too important while reducing impulsive spending.
The challenge of saving this budget has actually begun to be echoed several years ago in online forums, especially Reddit. The movement was triggered by a group that has 51 thousand members. They often share tips for living an efficient life that leads to efforts to suppress expenses by not buying certain items.
The No Buy Challenge movement was initially not as big as it is now until 2024 the challenge has gone viral on social media, especially TikTok.
Goods Included In The No Buy Challenge Movement
As explained earlier, No Buy Challenge tried to suppress expenses by not buying several items, namely as follows.
New clothes are one of the items included in the No Buy Challenge list. Instead, the challenge participants are asked to be more creative in combining outfits armed with old clothes that were previously owned. If you need certain clothes that are not owned, participants can buy used clothes through trifting, exchanging clothes, or even borrowing them temporarily.
No Buy Challenge also asked participants to save their food and beverage consumption by avoiding eating outside or not buying less important snacks. Participants are asked to cook their own food at home to reduce expenses.
Participants of No Buy Challenge are advised to avoid buying as much gadgets or similar items as possible from the latest output. Participants are asked to use old devices that are still functioning properly to meet their needs.
Participants can avoid buying items intended for house decorations that are less important or only bring temporary satisfaction.
Housing items are indeed quite draining of savings, therefore the challenge of No Buy Challenge asks participants to suppress shopping for hobbies.
The expenditure required for paid subscriptions is sometimes quite large. In the No Buy Challenge challenge, participants are asked to press it by selecting paid subscriptions that are not really needed.
Personal beauty and care products that are not really needed do not need to be purchased. On the other hand, participants are asked to maximize beauty products and personal care that have previously been purchased to the end or have gone through expiration date. Participants can also carry out personal treatment with available natural products.
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