It could start with an email sent to your inbox with a free shipping coupon code to one of your favorite stores. You go onto the website just to take a peek and an hour later you checkout with 5 different items. It could start one afternoon when you decide to just stop and simply "run into Target" and half hour later you run out with a arm full of bags and a $100 receipt. It could start because your boyfriend broke up with you and just need to think about something else, or because you and your mom want to have a nice Saturday afternoon together. I could go on forever with reason's why we all shop but, its something we just do.
I love to shop and I think I am pretty good at it. I can justify purchases, and trips to the store, I can save money to get something I really want, I can say no when I need to and I can find great great deals. However, it still doesn't cover the fact that I have a roomful of clothes and when I have somewhere new and special to go I feel the need to go and buy a new outfit(example: St. Patty's Day is right around the corner and I am already thinking about what green shirt to go buy.... I have tons of green shirts that are just fine that I could wear.) My shopping does not make up for the feeling I get when I am standing in my closet an hour before I am about to meet my girlfriends almost not wanting to go out because I truly feel I have nothing to wear.
This leads me to my next point, I feel like I love to go into a store and buy something, I can fill up the walk in closet and ran out of hangers the day I move into my apartment, yet have shopped numerous times since. I decided today March 1st that I am going to prove to myself that I can go 1 month without shopping, I want to prove to myself that I am not a shopaholic. This includes clothes, shoes, books, movies, decorations, and so on. Of course I have an apartment so I will need to buy groceries, and necessities which include makeup(if I run out only, example: my eyeliner is one sharpen away from being put to rest) and I am going to Florida this month so I will need to buy travel toiletries but that is it.... So here goes nothing 31 days starting now.
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