This is like dieting. One chip. Two chips. Three chips. The bag!
Doesn't everyone. Isn't this the same thing as putting on 10 pounds from Christmas holiday cookies? It's the New Year's resolution to exercise EVERY day, and by week three you are thinking, "who am I kidding. I'm not retired and don't have all day to work out! I can't find time to go to the bathroom let alone, stretch, workout for an hour, stretch, shower, make up, hair. What is that - an entire morning?!
And so, we back slide, cut corners, just give in a little. And we will always find a justification for it.
Like yesterday.
I'm working and a friend e-mails me. "HSN has scrapbooking day today." You would have thought that the gun went off at the start of the race. I quickly turned on my tv to channel 3; HSN. Facial Cream. They are showing Facial Cream. Do I have the wrong channel? In a panic I log on to a second computer, pull up HSN and there spread across the screen in glorious 18 inches is "Today's Special Value". An Anna Griffin card making kit.
Ohhhh Anaa..... your stuff is so Victorian, so ageless, so formal.
Known for her "Grand Adhesions" (yeah-they are stickers) they are always beautiful and always 3 dimensional. Anna does a good product.l How do I know. She's been around ever since I've been scrapbooking. (Yeah - that's 11 years now.) And the price... to make 30 cards is only $26. It was an all occasion kit and I KNOW I will use every bit of the kit in my cards. If I use her design, or modify it, (which I usually end up doing) I know that this product will be opened and used upon arrive. (There's justification - at least if I use it, I can buy it.)
Come on U.P.S. - my "brown Santa" - everyone thinks Santa wears red ; no way, he wears brown.)
For $26 dollars I can double my money and it's not as if this kit will just lay around. I'll use it. (I promise.)
So with a quick sign on, a password and three clicks of a button, it was done. I had purchased.
Buying, it can be emotional. When 16,000 other people have purchased the same item - you want it to. If they think it's a good deal, it has to be. Right?
In order to help in my backsliding capacity I went to the library and have stared reading "I'm Not Buying It"; a couples journey of not buying anything except necessities for an entire year. Maybe it will help. When I sat down to read it last night, (I probably should have started reading yesterday morning to avoid the purchase today). Really, when you think about it. How much stuff do we buy that keeps at least 4 different stations on cable, selling stuff 24/7. And one is exclusively jewelry. There has to be enough interest, or they would not be on the air. And we won't even get into info-mercials. Our national hobby seems to be shopping.
So I'm back. Back on track. The train may have jumped the rails for a little bit, but we have to get things in line again.
What is the saving grace here is my gift certificates. I have some left (I know hard to believe when it's January 21st already.) And I will use those funds to be selective.
What really seems to drive the no shopping home to me is when I have to put my "toys" away. Last night I was emptying packages from layouts completed. (That is a task that is NO fun, but so has to be done regularly or the piles become unbelievable!) When I have to put it away from using it.... I think, holy cow! I've used all this stuff to make layouts, cards, etc... and it doesn't look like I touched any of my supplies. I find things I didn't know I had, and makes me want to use them. You have to "get into" to your stuff, and LOOK to see what you have. And once you do, you come to realize - I have it all. :) And I'm so grateful.
(Although.. I still believe, never enough flowers or ribbons- right?)
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