Sometimes life is just odd and funny. Sometimes it is downright weird.
This experiment started in conjunction with a shopping extravaganzaat a Nordstrom store opening, just a random event. How weird is it that my 40 days and nights without shopping falls on Easter?? Without any intention, and for the first time in my life, I just spent an entire season of Lent depriving myself of something important, OK truth be told, life sustaining and necessary- shopping. The Catholics are probably going to say it doesn't count since it wasn't intentional.
To be honest, I didn't quite really know what Lent was until I just looked it up in Wikipedia. According to the smart people who write these things (I am paraphrasing here, no plagiarizing intended), Lent is a Christian tradition with the purpose of preparing believers to celebrate the Resurrection of Christ. Most people associate Lent with self-denial, or giving things up. It is typically 40 days long, representing the time Jesus spent in the wilderness.
I am really freaking out that my own self-denial of shopping for Lent falls on Easter and wondering if there is some divine intervention at work here. As a self proclaimed disbeliever of organized religion, this development has me wondering, hmmmm.
Check out the fascinating correlation of bible events to the number 40- you can read all about them in the Wikipedia when you are learning about Lent.