I really don't need anything but I have a really bad case of the wants. It's almost like the devil in my wallet is making me re-enact the scene from Carmen with the bayonets!
I don't know if maybe it's the season (after all, we're all kind of hardwired to shop for the first week of September from about the age of 5!), or if it's just boredom. Or maybe it's something deeper, somtehing in me saying happiness is a new pair of jeans or if I only owned that purse.
If my brain had subtitles and my life a film, the montage that has been the past few days would go something like this:
On the way to work:
- 'Ooh, honey, bad knicker choice with those trousers!'
- 'I really don't get the pashmina thing. Just put on a bleeping sweater already!'
- 'Fugly shoes, bud.'
- 'You totally do not need to eat that.....'
- 'Why is it that old people think the world owes them for not being dead yet?' (after some grey-haired twits stole my seat on the subway this morning when I got up to let the lady sitting on the inside seat get off the train! She and her bottom-dweller of a friend shoved me out of the way, took my seat and the newly vacated one! I hope your husband leaves you and takes the RRSPs with him!)
As the morning progresses and I am increasingly bored to death:
- 'I want that handbag/ top/ sweater/ pants/ suit/ skirt/ glasses/ tshirt/ shoes' and the unwelcome voice in my head going 'but it's only $X!'
- 'I should go buy ITEM X because I could wear it with ITEM Y.
Lunch - aka "the struggle to not shop in the underground mall"
PM is a repeat of the morning until 4PM rolls around, when I get the 'buy buy buy' and 'consume consume consume' bombardment that is the walk to the subway. I have a real fight on my hands until I get home and lock myself away.
I don't know what causes it, but it can't be healthy or wise and it sure won't make me wealthy either!
How do you fight this problem? I'm just at a loss and it's starting to stress me. And when I get stressed, I eat.
HELP!
2 comments:
Whenever I think I want something new, I force myself to think about what's already in my wardrobe and 9 times out of 10 I already have something similar.
Remembering the things I've already got (which is a lot of stuff!) always reminds me that I've got amazing clothes already and I don't need anything new.
Just hang on it there, it'll pass!
I think it's a lot like when you're craving ice cream. The best thing to do is eat a little bowl immediately, or else you'll cave in two days down the line and eat an entire tub in one sitting! Go and buy something inexpensive and small, like a pretty new scarf, or a pair of earrings and you'll have sated your spending appetite without blowing the budget too much. :)
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