My No-Spend Year, Continued…

Lisa Alexander
5 min readMar 29, 2020
Photo by Charles Deluvio on Unsplash

“Well, Lisa, where else would you like to go and not spend any money?”

This is my mom’s comment at Woodfield Mall the other day.

Since I was on spring break, I had offered to take my mom there for the day. It’s one of her favorite places, and she no longer will drive long distances. My mom doesn’t like shopping online, especially for clothes. She says she needs to see and feel things and…

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Lisa Alexander

Former English professor, full-time yoga teacher, failed Greek Orthodox. Searching for wisdom, clarity, and a fresh bag of circus peanuts.