Shop with Reason, Not Abandon.
July 2, 2012
My husband came up with a new guideline, as I was about to embark on a trip to Uber-Quaint Shopping Village: shop with reason, not abandon. Well, I did shop with reason. I saw a beautiful metal dragonfly sculpture that would look awesome above our headboard, a great necklace unlike any that I have, and…
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Summer Vacation Fallback.
July 10, 2012
Spotty internet so I have to make this quick. I wanted to shop and decided to shop. I went to two consignment stores and had great luck. I can’t call it success because I wasn’t thinking about budget or cash. I forgot all about that. Oops. It doesn’t feel good. I did remember to be…
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A Character Sketch.
July 16, 2012
I’ve had this shopping problem for a long time. To illustrate, here’s a character sketch I wrote 19 years ago for a creative writing class in college. This piece comes to mind every time I get that heart-racing thing when I think about shopping. I dug it out of the recesses and converted it from…
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Giving In.
July 16, 2012
My husband’s solution to my spending problem was always: track all our spending each month. Bills, groceries, everything. Get the Big Picture so we know how much we have to spend and how much is left over. What? No way, that’s too much work! I just wanted to track my own spending. I didn’t want…
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Temptation, Thy Name is TJ Maxx.
July 16, 2012
Yesterday, I faced temptation. I had to drive by TJ Maxx to get to the grocery store. I thought I would be strong. I had resisted other TJ Maxx stores over the past couple of weeks without much effort. And then… I asked the kids if they wanted to go in. You know, to kill…
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Goals are Changing, One Month In.
July 24, 2012
I just realized that it’s been a whole month since I decided to stop shopping. It hasn’t been as hard as I thought it was going to be. It’s remarkable how all it takes is a single thought in reaction to the impulse. I never thought to not act on the shopping impulse before. Should…
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Saved By the Bell.
July 27, 2012
After dropping my older son off at VBS for the morning, I took my younger son to the mall. There’s a nice play area there that is very quiet (and freshly cleaned!) for that hour before the mall opens. After about 20 minutes there, it became very not quiet. Loud, in fact. Painfully so. The…
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Filling the Void.
August 3, 2012
Last week, I had a particularly difficult day with my older son. He requires extra attention, and even after six years, I’m still not used to it. I don’t want to have to supervise constantly. I want him to be able to go play on his own or with his brother without getting into trouble….
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Planning a Shopping Trip.
August 9, 2012
This is a quick one. I’m a little nervous. One of my favorite tops is falling apart, despite my attempts to fix it. I want to replace it with something similar and plan to go shopping tomorrow. I want to have tunnel vision for only that one item, but am worried that I’ll fall into…
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