50 Things I Don't Buy or Own

hey everyone and welcome to this video that I feel like I have been wanting to film for so long now and I just had a note on my phone thinking of all the things that I don't buy or own at all anymore and I just think in today's world with so many expensive shiny things and kind of like materialism being so prevalent prevalent or consumerism however you want to call it and just like social media making you feel like you need all these things or you're missing out it's like I think there's something to be said for being a little less wasteful a little more minimalistic even though I wouldn't call myself a minimalist by any means you guys know I love my things that I do have and I would say I have a lot of things but I just thought this would be fun to kind of think about things that I don't own or that I am realizing that I don't use and I don't need to buy anymore and I just thought this would be fun to kind of point out all of these things to you guys and you can see if there are certain things that you're like oh I really don't use that I don't need to buy that anymore or that kind of thing we can all be doing our part for the environment not to get too deep down the rabbit hole but I just thought this would be fun I literally thought of 50 things you guys it's crazy and I have it in little sections we have like tech a home section food things we wear personal miscellaneous stuff like that so yeah if you guys are new to my channel make sure you subscribe I post videos literally all the time especially now that we are in quarantine I'm posting videos all the time and you guys can subscribe down below on my social media will be linked down below it always is follow me on Instagram everything like that but yeah without further ado let's go into it so was that English let's get on into it so first thing that I don't own I feel like all of you were gonna be like ah like you think everybody has one of these and I just never have maybe I'm just like really late to the game behind so this is in our tech section I do not have an Apple watch I've never had one I yeah I feel like I'm so behind I just feel like the whole world has their Apple watches and loves them and this is actually a terrible example of something on this list because I sort of feel like I have been missing out and I feel like it's something I would use a lot but I'm happy that I resisted the urge just because everyone else has one doesn't mean that I need to have one in two I've just been thinking about ever someone being like but I actually use it what I really enjoy it for the longest time I thought that I wouldn't want one because I thought that would be in the shower it's growing through my text messages or something and I'm like whenever I don't have my phone I don't want to be plugged in so to have this when I'm already on my phone so often it seems like a bad idea but I was texting my friend Taylor so you guys know I'm investment Taylor and she is a runner in Greece and she's like training for the Boston Marathon and I was like do you love your Apple watch because I kind of feel like I might be missing out like I kind of want one and she was like yeah it's the best thing ever like she's it every day well she runs so to be determined if I end up getting one but I actually don't know what own one and I have never had one so comment down below tell me if you have an Apple watch and if you love it and if it's worth it but I've never had one that was a long example of an item on this list okay the next thing I don't own in my tech section is an alarm clock I realized I feel like so many people have alarm clocks and especially because your phone I don't know can be maybe not like reliable in every situation that you would want an alarm clock to make sure you like get up on time for work every day and stuff but I don't own an alarm clock so that's just something that I realized but it made me realize - I don't need one because I'm fine without it and I always do just use the alarm on my phone I probably slept through it like a couple times and my ringers all the way down but yeah I don't have an alarm clock another thing I realized they don't have some of these are dumb but some I think you're good so sorry this is like dumb but another thing I realize I don't have is a laptop case like the hard one that's on your laptop or like the soft one that you put your laptop in when you travel and honestly this isn't that smart I probably should to protect my laptop but it's just not something that I own I have had like soft ones that you put your laptop in in the past I feel like in college I would use it like in my book bag and stuff but I don't know what happened to I must've lost it and I just don't have one it was um another thing I think this is a good thing to point out because maybe this will help you realize if you were not using this another thing that I don't buy is cable and ever since actually no that's a lie my first apartment off-campus my senior year I think with our internet we like had to get cable or it was like cheaper that way but then we just realized in the apartment now my tailor we I feel like are so busy on our own doing our own other things away from TV that we just realized we don't need to pay for cable we wouldn't use it and we aren't missing out at all because we just watch Netflix and the only time it's an issue is when the bachelor is on because we like want to watch it real time and so yeah that's been like a hassle you try to find like ways around that but we don't pay for cable because we know that we wouldn't use it um now going into my home section so something that I pride myself and not buying anymore is excessive decor I feel like for your apartment or specifically I think in my head like festive pillows if you guys I'm not bad nothing than all because they're like my favorite people ever if you guys know Aspen and Parker they're literally my favorite people on YouTube I think they're like the cutest couple they're babyco like they're literally the only people I watch on YouTube and I love them so much but Aspen is like crazy pillow lady like she loves getting pillows and if you guys watch their vlogs in their videos you know what I mean she I feel like is buying pillows at Target every day and is always getting pillows for every new holiday and I will say I probably have some like Christmas decor but other than that I'm not like running to Sharjah to get like heart themed Valentine's Day pillows and like pumpkin pillows for Holly and I like don't do that stuff and I'm having a job because a I don't have room for it in my apartment and my little Boston apartment like there's not that room to store it when they're not out and about and all that extra home decor like I feel like I've just learned that I'm very affected by my environment and extra things laying around in like clutter just taking up space clutters my mind makes me feel overwhelmed so I've just realized having thin things put away and kind of like tucked away in their place not too much decor is how I like it so yeah I'm happy that I'm not crazy with the decor like I know some people can be um another somebody ok the next three things I'm kind of like not like sad about but like I feel bad about but I'm just being honest so these things I just don't own which are really I might have liked book I really don't want books I don't own planners or notebooks and those are kind of all think of together because I feel like for the longest time I was fighting Who I am deep down to my core and I'm like I really want to read all the time I really want to be someone that like writes in their planner I know it's so good for like staying organized and it's better than your calendar and your iPhone or your computer and like the pen to paper is so important and notebooks writing things down like again the pen to paper and I would get all these things but I don't use them and it was like the biggest realization one day and very freeing and everything got a little bit easier when I just had a realization like crunching maybe you're not meant to write everything down under planner that's okay and if you're not a big notebook gal and I'm really trying to work on the read a but that's just never been my thing I actually think when I was a really little girl like in first grade like I loved reading whatever but things change and those are just things I don't really own and yeah like I said it just got a little bit easier when I realized that maybe I don't need to have those things like other people have and that's okay don't hate me for this video you're gonna hate me okay the next thing this is like loose home category I feel like a lot of times when people travel they will get souvenirs or knickknacks or whatever for gifts when they come home and I mean I'm guilty of it too especially like growing up I feel like whenever I would travel I would get a little knickknacks for people or like shirts or sweatshirts or whatever but then I just realized over the past couple years maybe the amount I've traveled I'm like okay I can't keep getting stuff every time I travel this is crazy but I think I just realized like the memories with the people when you're traveling and the photos are enough and you don't need a sweatshirt to remember your trip to Cancun like I promise you don't and you're gonna be like why did I spend $60 on that and then you don't even wear it that much and then it just takes up space and then it just makes you overwhelmed and it's like you don't need it so yeah I pride myself in not getting really souvenirs from places I will probably still get gifts from people and if they're like meaningful and it's like a gift for someone else but souvenirs for myself I'm like not into it anymore because you just you just don't need it um hey the next couple things for a home section I just really was realizing paper towels fig or something that I have never really purchased I know that sounds so weird and like living with my roommate Taylor who like always use paper towels are being at maximum they always use paper towels like that's just so interesting to me am I like so weird you guys growing up my parents just we never had paper towels or you know how you have like little paper towel holder on your counter with paper towels we just never had that we just always had like a dish towel when you like dry the dishes and then another another towels or like dry your hands after you wash your hands and maybe like rags if you spilled something till I clean it up and then you would just put it in the washer like we just never really did the whole paper towel thing I'm sure we had paper towels around sometimes but like that's just like not something I really buy and in my mind it's not really necessary um maybe now with everyone being very hygienic and not wanting to like maybe reuse a towel and you want like single-use things that you can throw away just cuz you don't want to spread the coronavirus that would make sense but that's just not something I really bought in the past another thing that I realized is paper plates I've never really owned or purchase because I just used the normal place that you wash in the dishwasher and you can reuse them and I'm sorry given here like I don't know if that's a motorcycle other cars outside but um I think some people and like their families or somebodies use paper plates cuz it's like easier to clean up but we just have never done that I think the only time I've been around paper plates really is about that like a birthday party and they were like pink and sparkly and themed or something but that's yeah I never really do like paper towels paper plates tissues I've never really bought is that like ratchet up he's a new story paper do I need to blow my nose I've just never really bought tissues all these things seem looks like so glamorous and I had like oh my gosh if I'd paper towels and tissues and paper plates like but I've just never really seen the need for it and now I'm like kind of happy that I've never really been in habit of buying these things because in my mind it's just wasteful and like I don't really have a use for like I don't really need it I don't have like allergy so they'd be like blowing their nose I don't know but you know what I will say I have had those even this is really glamorous I have that those tissues are they the puffs ones like puffs plus lotion and if you're sick and like have a cold and blowing your nose all the time I feel like those are just like so glamorous and very luxurious but yeah I don't really buy another thing that I don't buy is plastic wrap I don't think I've ever really bought plastic wrap I just wouldn't really have a purpose for it like I'm sure there's been plastic around plastic wrap around like growing up like I know what it is for certain things that you want to leave in their casserole pan into cover I don't know but in my mind in my cooking kitchen life I just always use containers like reusable Tupperware or glass containers with like a lid kind of thing so I never really have a purpose for plastic wrap my thing I don't buy his dryer sheets I just never really used them I don't know my mom might have them I just never really use him I just use my detergent and then I put my clothes in the washer and I just don't use dryer sheets see these are just all these little things that I just don't really buy I don't know another thing I don't find air freshener I don't know if that's like gross and I don't know do you guys have ever pressure I feel like everybody I ever freshener and uses it but I just never really bought that I have candles and I lied a lot so I think that's kind of what I use instead of that but is that weird that I don't buy in math I don't know are you guys gonna think I'm weird after this video another thing that I don't own and don't think I'll ever really own actually when I live with max maybe does he have fun I don't even know I don't have a Keurig or a coffee maker um try me today right Keurig Keurig I really don't drink coffee that much see now I feel weird saying that because you guys I never had a cup of coffee like ever and like I'd have a sip and I hated the way it tastes and I knew that ever since my senior untold my senior year of college and I started dating max who would drink like 10 ventis of Starbucks iced coffee every day if he could and then I started drinking here and there with here and there like once in a while with him and then it was a couple months later like maybe two months later I'm like why am I feeling anxious all the time I've never felt anxiety my whole life and everyone's like duh it's the coffee that you're like chugging in the morning like oh my god they're so right so then I was like off the coffee for a while and I don't have it so now I just have coffee here and there and I really only have it when I'm with Max and he usually will treat me for coffee and I won't buy it so anyway I would probably never use a Keurig or a coffee maker I'll use a Keurig maybe for hot chocolate but anyway that's a lot of explanation I just don't own one of those that we're on yeah another thing I don't own is an air fryer I know these are new more probably a lot of you don't have air fryers I know this isn't my crazy but I'm sort of feeling like I need one I think most of it is because if you guys knew my friend Brooke would meet you here on YouTube she like loves her air fryer so by her just saying how much she loves her is all the time I'm like do I need one but I don't know one currently so if you guys have an air fryer and you like it comment down below tell me if I need it like what really is appealing to me is like throwing some sweet potatoes and Brussels sprouts in there and I think they cut away quicker than the oven so that's just why I would do that but I don't have one another thing I realize you guys are probably gonna be shocked can be like what I don't have an umbrella like I literally don't own one and I'm sure I've had umbrellas growing up like at my house but I guess my mom my dad and Lucy me would all just share them and so when I went to college I think my parents would be like you and even probably like it rains in Boston a lot or like now that I'm on my own in my apartment um but when it rains I just get wet that's like terribly not practical and inconvenient um but I never really realized until it's too late and I'm outside in them getting wet do I have a raincoat I don't even know if I have that but I don't have an umbrella another thing I realized that I don't have is rain boots I think I had a hunter rain boots like a hot SEC and I wore them once and I just realized that I wasn't gonna wear them even when it rains out I couldn't be bothered to wear my rain boots so I just don't own rain bit okay on to the food section post mates it's something obviously I'd like ordered food here and there and post major ubereats or whatever but it's not something that I really buy that often at all maybe like once every couple months I'm really not into that I feel like now obviously things are different and if you want to order and like local businesses up that's probably a very good thing to do right now um but before all of this situation and what's going on right now happened I think I really just liked eating out to be like a special thing to like leave your apartment and go have an experience eating somewhere so I would just never really order in food and post mates food so yeah it's just not something that I really buy the next thing I realized I don't buy is frozen vegetables I feel like they have their time in place where do I feel like I've heard this I don't know if it was somewhere on YouTube maybe it was like my parents and they were like the only time it's acceptable to have frozen vegetables is when you're like in college and really busy and maybe you only have a microwave or something but in my mind I just always buy fresh vegetables and I just have never really had frozen vegetables I don't know the next thing on my food section is food that I won't be able to eat and what I mean by this is that I feel like I've gotten smarter about purchasing foods at grocery stores because I feel like I used to just go ham I literally wouldn't even have a plan I would just write some things down a grocery list would probably end up buying like two x amount of that food am i speaking English two times the amount of food that was on the list at the grocery store because I just be wandering around looking at all these like yummy snacks I don't go hungry which is obviously another issue in itself talk with the grocery store hungry you're just asking to get all those like Scandinavian swimmers from Trader Joe's and cookie butter and things like that and then you come home and you're like why did I get this no but yeah what I mean my food I won't be able to eat is I feel like I would get so many fresh like produce like fruits and vegetables and just everything like that when it's like as a single it's like one girl I'm not gonna be able to eat all of that before it even goes bad so it's like better if you kind of have a plan of you know like meals that you're going to be eating this week or yeah like certain meals that you like making and just getting the stuff for that instead of just like every single fruit under the Sun and being like I'll eat it when like it'll go bad before you can eat those raspberries or blackberries those go bad so quick it makes me sad but I've gotten better at that um and then these are just like weirdly specific but other foods that I realized I don't buy steak or I feel like just any really like complicated meats it took me maybe 21 years of my life just to learn how to cook chicken so I'll get chicken-like occasionally but cooking meat just scares me it's overwhelming and yeah I just really I would never buy steak on my own my Maxwell grill steak for me but yeah the other thing I realized is if you guys don't know this about me I don't really like cheese and I also weird saying that like cheese and the coffee and everything there's like little caveats because I do have it just like here and there I've never really buy cheese on my own because I don't really enjoy cheese but for example I think we'll probably have pasta tonight I will maybe put Parmesan my pasta but like I don't really have cheese in my apartment a there's also a vegan so she doesn't have any cheese I feel we just don't have cheese in our fridge and I would never really buy it because I just don't really eat it all that much but if you give me like cheese pizza like I'll eat it do you know what I mean it's just not really something I buy coffee is the next thing on the food list I don't buy for everything I was saying before I just really don't have it that often at all I'm not like obsessed with the way it tastes obviously there's some tasty ones I like that it can give me energy but I usually would just have it as a treat with Max sometimes if you like goes to Starbucks another thing that I don't buy that I realize I thought I'm just not really like a drink type of person I just drink water and that's pretty much it um but I don't ever buy soda I don't own soda we don't have it in our apartment me and Taylor are always like our apartment like our kitchen sucks like we're like we never have anything yummy in here all we have is just really whole things we have like rice and our sweet potatoes and our avocados and our like vegetables and fruit we have a very healthy kitchen so it's good keeps us on track but we're like a whole barrier like the fruit roll-ups and the pop-tarts and like the soda when you need it you know but yeah so it's just not something I buy I don't really enjoy it I'll have like a sip of Max's here and then when I'm with him and then the last thing on my food little section that I realized I don't buy is plastic water bottles and it's like in this day and age it's like oh my God why would you like I feel like if you were drinking out of a plastic water bottle anywhere people would like yell at you where is it I think my friend Hannah I went to UVM you guys and they don't sell plastic water bottles like on their campus and obviously it's just bad and weasel and you don't need it and I just drink right there out of my hydro flask like every day um so I don't buy plastic water bottles I never and yeah I'm happy that's not a habit of mine because you don't need it then in my next section in stuff you wear something I don't buy is outfits for events and I'm happy that I also haven't gotten to this habit because I feel like just being in my sorority in college whenever there is any date party or formal or whatever people would always go crazy and go shopping and I get it because like you need an outfit for the event but I realize that I have so many clothes it's like a closet full of clothes and I would just always go shopping in my closet look around in my closet and nine times out of ten there was something in there that you can make work even if you have worn before worn it before and that's why I really like to stick with like basics like if you have a little black dress no one's gonna remember that you wore before like it's freaking cute and you look good in it and it's flattering so yeah I'm happy that I never really buy out weights for events oh my gosh that reminds me we went to Max's cousin sorry I'm like touching my hair as much we went to Max's cousin's wedding in this past September and I was freaking out trying to figure out what to wear like tearing apart my closet for like an hour but I finally found like the best jumpsuit so it just took a little bit of effort on my part something else I realized I don't own you guys is flannel shirts and I know that sounds so weird sorry you could hear max playing video games out there I feel like it's getting noisy but um if you like everyone is flannel shirts and makes them look so cute and I have just never looked good and I'm whenever I try and lucy's I'm like I look like a farmer and everyone else looks so cute in them but I've just never owned them and I would be sad for a while and like half a mole that I couldn't wear a flannel shirt like everybody else but I've just accepted it that they don't look at me and I don't own one the next thing that I don't own is fun or like by it's fun or costume type makeup and I was just thinking about this because I remember when I first started youtube I was just so into makeup like my name was Gretchen Leslie if you guys were around and I was so into makeup and I would just like learn all the new collections of Mac for fun and want to get all the crazy colors for fun and then I just realized at one point well I stopped like loving makeup that much I just wasn't that interested anymore it is like hard enough for me to put on some blush and bronzer and mascara these days and yeah I'm just not as interested in it so like really fine costume more like a vent makeup that you would Reta Coachella are like a certain themes like party or whatever in college I just stopped really purchasing because I'm like I would use this once and never use this blue eyeshadow again and it's just gonna take up space and I'm just gonna go with my everyday look and it won't really matter that much I'm sure for certain things like Coachella I've got in like face gems and stuff but like typically I don't really buy yeah like costumey makeup that I won't use all the time another thing that so these kind of go together all three of these I realized I just had all these realizations that I don't need to be buying these things anymore is either like it's all kind of one category my head either with cheap or low-quality or just kind of trendy clothing shoes or jewelry and it's because I think I just learned through experience things that are cheap low-quality or just really trendy and that's why you're getting it so then it's cheap because you didn't want to pay that much for it because it's a China in it will end up going out of style at some point all of those things would make me happy in the moment but then they would take up space and they would probably get a hole in it or fall apart because it was so cheap and obviously it's not sustainable and it's just yeah something that I realized is not worth my time the shoes boat break the clothes will get holes in them or shrink or just like look really gross after you wash them a couple times and then for jewelry if you guys don't realize I've worn this jewelry like every day for the past I don't even know how long and I feel if the jewelry was a good realization without always get all the jewelry that's like badmouth brandy melville all the brandy melville jewelry but my fingers would turn blue and I'm like oh that's not like really a good sign you know I'm like really cheap jewelry does that and like they bend and break or like the silver turns black and just like things don't go right and so it's like I'd rather just invest in jewelry that I little bit aware forever and I know jewelry can be expensive so that's a big tough one um but yeah it's just something that I'm happy that I stopped with because I clearly don't have oh that's another thing I don't have like a jewelry box or anything I don't really have that much jewelry just like the jewelry that I wear and yeah my next thing that I don't buy yeah I actually own two but I don't buy them is bras like the traditional wire ones I'm wearing one right now and you know what I almost got I don't know how to describe I won't WA Scott influence after if you guys saw my video where I talked about what I wear under my clothes I know that's so random but if you're interested it's on my channel and I just talked about like boobs stickers like nipple stickers and like strapless bras new bra strap bras whatever but I literally have one bra with straps it's nude and has like the underwire like one of those and this is the nude strapless one with the underwire and I really don't wear bras all that often yeah maybe that's a couple times a month I'm wearing it in this shirt cause I was like filming and I'm gonna click presentable and it's white and would be like see-through and you would see my nipples and like maybe be uncomfortable I don't know even carries on nipples everyone has him but anyway yeah I just don't buy bras Owen Rosen says I was almost influenced because I got some comments on that video being like oh my god those bras are like 10 years old Gretchen they're so dingy I would feel embarrassed wearing those around like a boy or whatever and I'm like oh my god they're so right like they're so gross I'm like falling apart maybe I should get some new ones and then I was like you know what no why would I go spend money on these new bras when I'm really not gonna wear them and they're gonna sit there and I just don't care that much they're under my clothes like I barely ever wear them I'm wearing a sports bra no bra or like a bra lat 99% of the time anyway so yeah I just don't buy bras anymore I don't know they're next time I'll probably brought me been on like 40 all right um the next thing they don't buy ya or own really is hats and what I specifically mean with hats is the baseball caps and this is purely just because for like a functional recent practical reason I have a massive head and I don't know if you guys can tell you probably can't tell but I can't even describe to you how big my head is like way bigger the masses and all of its like you know cute little baseball cap so you wears everyday they do not fit my head and when I make the back loose enough to like put it on my head it ends like right here like maybe an inch above my ear like it's just like the very top of my because I just have such a large head so they look so dumb on me like they don't go down long enough like to your ear baseball caps just don't look right I mean the only type that kind of do were the ones that have the mesh in the back of you guys know this is getting very detailed right now the ones I have the mesh in the back are usually a bit bigger and can kind of like fit my huge noggin but I don't have them and I don't buy them and they don't look good on me so I don't wear them yeah that's just a functional thing that's just because my head is huge anyway next thing I realized is this is like kind of random and like kind of dumb but I just realized I don't have a ski jacket and this I just thought would be funny to include because it's like you just have to be honest with yourself and know yourself sometimes you guys because you guys know last pipi ride torment you CL skiing like the one time I was in the ski the whole winter I like don't let ski barely ever Taylor you know what she was impressed with me though she was like wow I'm so proud of you like you're away but her skier than I oh you're going down the black diamond nice cute like a little bit growing up and like had ski jackets then but yeah when I went with our last winter I think you're like borrowed one of hers I don't even know and then tore my ACL and had my whole rehab for the next year at surgery at the whole thing so I just know myself and know that I will probably never ski again don't get mad at me only skiers everyone's like you got hot back on and do it sometime and I'm like or I could just not like I don't care that much and I don't ever want to risk tearing an ACL again cuz it was like the worst thing ever no it's okay it's made me it's made me strong I mean like Who I am today but yeah I just realized I don't even have a ski jacket cuz I don't want to ski and I don't own one and I don't plan on buying one next thing I realized I was really digging deep and thinking I don't buy scarves I'm sure I have some winter scarves laying around that are like old it's really cold maybe I'd wear one but I can't tell you one time in last year that I wore a scarf I just don't wear scarves I remember in high school me beginning high school you're like really trendy and you get the infinity scarves remember those and I would just wear them to like school with like a flowy skirt and like a long sleeve shirt and like boots or something but no like I don't wear scarves that can't be bothered yeah unless it's like you know freezing cold and I'm at my mom's house and she has a bunch of winter clothes and I'm like take his car but I just don't really buy scarves have all that many scarves I might have like one or two I can't even like picture one in my head um cuz I just don't really wear them I just zip up my coat and deal with it it's over I gave you guys okay the next thing I realized this is see these next few things are kind of done for clothes the last two things but I just realized I realized so many things in this video I really don't have orange clothing like I can't think of anything in my closet that's orange I might have like a random orange shirt or tank top or sweater but I wouldn't like it because I don't like orange you know what I'm finally being honest I'm being true even with you guys being real I hated orange forever like it's been my least favorite color I just don't like orange I don't like orange flavored things I don't I just like hate wind I don't know why I like oranges a lot you guys are my soom orange is like my thing which is so in but like the orange flavored chicken everybody likes like a Chinese food I hate orange flavor chicken I hate orange flavor I don't I really anything but anyway the reason I'm saying that is I also hate the paint the way orange looks on me I just don't like orange as a color like with Mema sunset but like orange is good for the sunset I don't need it on me and so I really don't have orange clothes and the reason I thought this was meaningful to put this here is because I want you to deep down think about clothes that you have that you don't like and that you don't wear because they're colorful and so now I'm smart and I get like black and white and gray and it's cuz I know those are the colors I like wearing and I feel like my closet is just a lot more neutral now my wardrobe because I would get all these colors and things and then I wouldn't wear them because I wouldn't like them as much as the neutral thing so it's like just being honest with yourself you know and yeah I just can think of times where I would get like you know this shirt and I think wow I love this shirt like it's so great and I'm in every color and I'm gonna get it an orange a blue and purple and then I doing blinds up anyway I digress last thing for clothing is low waisted clothing I just had a realization all my things guys you're gonna be so proud of me right now in quarantine that I'm wearing jeans high-waisted jeans oh hello Highway sit so happy that came back in I don't even know how I was like functioning before high-waisted became a thing again because things back when we were younger like we all were booty low waisted like jean shorts from Abercrombie & Fitch in frickin low waisted jeans and I don't know how we did it like they are just not flattering on me and not Q and just for me personally I feel like the high waisted is just weird that so I really don't have low waisted clothing okay sorry do you know how long this video was gonna be it's getting wrong but second-to-last last section personal okay something that I don't buy is spray tans I think I've had maybe two in my whole life and I don't really like them I like my self-tanner so much better you guys know I use Lovington I love that I like tan to Nicole's I just would so much rather do it myself and I like the way it turns out I feel like it fades off very naturally and every time I get a spray tan I feel like it comes off all chunky and blotchy and you look like a cheetah and they're expensive and I just don't see the purpose I know a lot of people get spray tans and love them I'm not trying to like oh we actually don't want offend anyone with this video if you like love orange clothing and look man you like love getting spray tans your orange sure and you're like Louis Jean so now you hate me no I don't offend you at all just for me personally I just like the way self-tanner works on me a lot better and I just don't pay for spray tans it saves me some money okay next thing I realized this is what I mean when I mean personal we're getting real personal um something I've never owned or bought is pad I know that's weird like and if you're a boy listening your public oh my god like I know 95% of you were girls but girls who's with me actually I know a lot of you we're pop I know a lot of people were passes normal I guy friends that wear pads sorry this videos getting so long but um yeah I think ever since a day on my period I was using you damn hun we're getting like a really personal right now TMI and I've just always used tampons are just more convenient for me just like way they work for me personally better so I just don't know pads and I don't yeah don't think I ever really well actually maybe have to give the baby a few after you give a baby after you give birth to your baby I think you're supposed to Wow sorry this is like TMI um but I know some people that just have like excess like feminine care products like pads and tampons and you just everything in it if I had that just like fill up my tampon drawer it's like that would just be taking up space because I wouldn't use it you know I mean okay next thing see somebody's I think are good things to realize like maybe you're like wow like I don't need to buy shaving cream because I could just use my soap or maybe you're like I love my shaving cream white as Gretchen talking about but something that I don't want or don't think I'll buy I've never really used his shaving cream I know a lot of girls will you shaving cream on their legs I'm sure it's very luxury isn't nice but I just can't be bothered and I think even if I did have it I'd get lazy and once I use my loofah and just put my body wash everywhere my legs are all foamy and I can just shade them with my body soap so that's just how I've always done it and then I know what you do by shaving cream just one last on my list so I don't know the gym cream another two things that I don't really well I do oh nail polish I don't know a nail polish remover and I don't buy now I haven't bought nail polish I think in like 10 years and I don't my nail polish remover either well you know joke's on me cuz now we can't get her nails in anymore but I just really enjoy getting my nails then I like them having I like them looking really nice and I just remember before college I can high school when I would do my nails getting so frustrated I'm not getting out cry because I was so bad at it and I would get nail polish all over my fingers and it would just look so bad and I was like you know we're just gonna take the L and just regularly go to the nail salon and that's just a luxury that I'm okay with paying a luxury that I'm okay with you know what I'm saying that I'm then I feel good about paying for because it makes me feel good it's like a fun little self-care thing and I'm so bad at doing my nails that like it's just worth it to me and so I have nail polish I think it's all like literally ten years old but I don't buy it because I don't use it I just always do my nails down but you know this is just I Ron I'm saying this now because my nails were five weeks old of you guys saw me in story everyone was like feel that so course of you so it literally took me like an hour to get them off at home and I just soaked them and nail polish remover and everything it was Max's nail polish remover at Mae's house and yeah so now they look kind of like scary because these are my actual nails and then I just used some light pink nail polish of mine that was ten years old and this is what they look like but right as the nail salons open again you won't catch me painting my own nails because they literally turn out terrible and these I had to try so hard and I know they look and they probably okay right now but it's because I had to get so much nail polish remover and like clean up around the edges because I can hold my alright anyway I digress oh yeah and I don't have nail polish remover and actually to the point this is bad I should own some of that because I think you like this is so good thank you guys we made it to the end you're just getting really real with me I remember having like a really old pedicure and I was like this need to come off right now but I didn't have nail polish remover so I took a file and I just filed off my nail polish on my toenails I mean to me I wash like my pedicure and I filed it off and that's probably like not the way you should be doing it like probably not good for your nails your toenails and probably any gross but I didn't have nail polish remover so I was just being a little bit resourceful that's something I should own though okay the last two things in my personal thing well first thing is I wrote this is like traditional lipstick I don't know how to say it because I love my Kylie lip kits like matte lip creams but I realize I don't have any lipsticks I know a lot of people like just like the MAC lipsticks just like traditional classic lipstick but I've never liked it and I don't own it and I won't wear it because it just comes off in like one second it gets on your hydro flask it gets on like cups like I just don't know I'm just not about that if you like lipstick you do you girl and people like carried around with them and reapply and stuff but I'm just so about my Kylie matte lip creams red lip kit so there's so many like matte lip sticks because then it like stays on it's like cement it doesn't come off and so then you don't have to worry about it so I used to hide lipstick last thing is I wrote this down as favorite items in bulk and what I mean by this is I feel like I used to for example I let my Neutrogena makeup lips and I feel like I used to go and get them and I'd be like oh I can get like five of them so I'm stocked up and now I'm like no because you don't even have the room to store them once you run out then go buy a new one don't just like have so many of your favorite things then you're not gonna have a place for them you'll probably forget about them and buy new ones anyway like it's just just no Gretchen just like relax a little bit so I've stopped buying my favorite makeup Beauty personal products in bulk don't do that anymore okay last category is just miscellaneous number one large wallets I don't own I will be buying and you know I've never really been a one person to the point that you guys knew my Obi's would just have a little sticker like all of college I had one of those what are they called like pocket sticker things on the back of your phone where all your cards go and I just like never had a wallet um and I just don't use cash I don't have cash so I really don't have purpose but a big wallet now you guys know I have just like a tiny little coin purse thing but I don't have a large wallet and I don't really need one ah the next thing this isn't something that I buy but something that I don't pay for is interest payments on my credit card I just thought this would be like a fun like some financial fun to throw in here um yeah I'm just like proud that I've ever had to pay an interest payment on my credit card but I do realize that that's not realistic for some people obviously there's some big purchases that you would put on your credit card like furniture or that you know that you don't have the money for right now but you're gonna pay it off like things like that make sense mean I'm like maybe one day I will have interest payments on my credit card but I'm lucky enough and blessed enough right now that I can afford it and just pay it off every month as I go and that way I never have to pay interest my credit card because the interest you pay on your credit card you're literally like throwing away or just like handing over to your credit card company so that's something that I don't buy and then I'm like on top of to make sure that I don't have to pay for that okay wait two more things and then we have a bonus okay second class thing I realized that I don't own and then I won't buy or pay for is a Charlie card I know it's probably like random but you guys like live in his city like me in Boston maybe you would realize but I actually had one in college before I had a car I would use the T all the time but I don't have one anymore and it's just because I bought a car and I have a car so yeah I don't have a Charlie card and that's all right I'm sure most people in Boston do and most people take public transportation which is good but now that I have a car I just don't really have a need to not train like brag that one sounds like oh my god they don't have my Charlie card anymore no I just mean it as like I'm just happy that I like realize these things like I don't need to like be paying for that and have that when I realized that I don't use it anymore because I just drive my car that make sense okay last but not least but I don't have it in which I wish I had right now cause I'm going crazy over here in quarantine is a bike I think it's a little kid obviously I like a little bike with my what are those called training wheels you're like a tricycle when your training wheels come off right so were they training wheels you know the bike and they like the two little wheels man there's that day when you like take them all off and you're like flying down the street and don't know how to okay I don't know someone help me out someone tell me what I'm talking about I think they're called training anyway I remember having bikes it's like a little kid right that you would bike around the neighborhood its front of me and Lucy my dad would always bike around the neighborhood but um I don't have one anymore and a lot of people the reason I thought this was good to include it because if you live actually do people bike in New York it'd probably be dangerous because New York is just like mayhem it's actually pretty dangerous in Boston to you but I know a lot of people bike in Austin and that's very normal and like a very effective way to get around um but I just would never trust myself and yeah like I just feel like I would not be attentive enough observant enough biking around Boston and I would be too scared because it's kind of dangerous so I don't want to bike I mean I kind of wish I did know how to like bike around and yeah Wow Oh last but not least bonus when I realized today you guys is something that I don't buy and I don't think I ever will buy is scratch tickets this is so random but if you like gamble I don't know good for you be careful I guess but I've just never really went into that even places I've been like Las Vegas Aruba places with casinos um I just like don't really see the point I know it can be fun or where was I put the casino gesture through the Bahamas that's what I'm thinking of um and yeah I know it can be fun and people like that and all but I am just like why would I do that like I don't want to lose you know what I mean but the reason I was thinking of scratch tickets say it's because me and max went to the grocery store and he wanted to get um scratch tickets and I'm like times like to me that is so dumb but if you want to like that's fun so I just realized it's something that I don't buy Wow this video is long I did not realize it was gonna be this one you guys I'm sorry but hopefully I was like entertaining maybe I helped you realize some things you don't need to buy any more like dryer sheets or shaving cream I don't know and yeah if you wanna leave me a comment down below I read literally all of them and I don't want to offend anyone by this now I'm scared I'm gonna like offend people if you like all of these things and I don't have them I just yeah thought it would be meaningful to think about all these things that I don't own or buy and share them with you because I know so many times it can feel like oh this influencer is showing her luxury back again or whatever and I like this makes me feel like left out or bad or something and I like feel that feeling sometimes when I follow influencers on social media so I thought this could be fun to just kind of do the opposite of a hall show you things that I don't have and how it just kind of makes my life a little bit simpler but anyway before I get way too fatty thank you guys for watching love you so much thanks for watching this video and I'll see you next time bye

Channel: Gretchen Geraghty

Views: 117,049

Rating: 4.7461929 out of 5

Keywords: gretchen geraghty, gretchenlovesbeauty, 50 things I don't buy or own, things I don't buy anymore, things I don't buy, things I don't own, minimalism, michelle reed, opposite haul, haul video, vlog, day in my life, cape cod, quarantine, quarantine vlog, boston, boston vlog, minimal, minimal life

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Length: 42min 26sec (2546 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 09 2020