Buy nothing but food for a month: Could you do it?

I do. They are usually used and very cheap. I have three reasons for this:
1.) I like having my own library that is independent of streaming availability and it's nobody's business what I'm listening to or watching anyway.
2.)My tastes tend to run to things that are hard to find streaming.
3.)I'm an artist and thus have this weird preference for media that has a physical artifact.

Quick story: I have a friend who does small business consulting. His avocational thing is working with artists and artisans to help them get their businesses in order. He told me about an artist who had devoted a wall of his basement studio to shelf after shelf of CDs. He suggested ripping the CDs and getting rid of them to make room. The artist was aghast at the idea and pretty much shut down for the rest of the appointment. I explained the whole "most artists are makers who are more comfortable with physical artifacts, blah blah blah..." thing to him. It could be a generational thing as well. I went to art school in the 80s. Day-glo crates full of music were a part of the physical culture back in the day.

In the middle of eliminating a lot of stuff here. Even my library is going on a diet. This homebody entertains herself quite well. It's a lot easier now that I'm older.

 

I still have CDs, and occasionally buy more.
I rip them, but plan to one day have a home sound system with real speakers through which I can enjoy full, uncompressed music. That's why I keep them.

 

Assuming gas and recurring bills are excepted, this doesn't sound difficult for anyone who doesn't have kids. Boring, but not difficult.