Today someone mentioned the fact that all of us buy some sort of junk. Not always things that we can’t use. Just things that we don’t use. Those things that you think look interesting, and in the 5 minutes you spend looking at it on the shelf you’re convinced that you cannot live without this item for another day. Its really weird how we lie to ourselves like that! In a desperate attempt to quiet our conscience about the money we’re about the spend.
When you get home (or sometimes even in the car), you open this newly found treasure. You sniff it, try it on, and love it to bits for those first few minutes, and sometimes even days! But there comes a time when you wonder to yourself, “what the hell was I thinking when I bought this?”.
For me those things that go in a drawer is any cosmetic thing. Whether it be a new sort of loofah, sponge, cute make up brushes, make up remover, facial scrub, mousse foundation – you name it – I buy it. I love new fragrances and texture, and feeling what it does to my skin.
The person I mentioned previously collects gadgets like that. Anything which sounds as if it could save you time. Whether it be juicers, popcorn makers, and heaven alone know what else.
It was then that I realized that most of us has a “fetish” like that. The inconsolable urge to buy something we don’t really need. What is it that you buy and end up putting away in a drawer, cupboard, or even the garage?
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I’m like that about jewelry…shiny stuff…I’m like a crow! But I almost never wear it cause it irritates me.
I have a things for knives.
Not hunting knives or Rambo’s little numbers.
Kitchen knives.
My wife follows me like a hawk when we go shopping. I am banned from walking down the utensil aisle, as I will put a knife of one or the other sort into the trolley.
Luckily, my fetish is for books. I buy more books than I can possibly read, go home, put them on the shelf or in the drawer, and get around to them someday. I read like crazy, so I always get to them, but when I see a book I want I simply cannot say no!
Day planners, I have found more day planners that I used for a month and then just forgot about…how disorganized is that!!? I find post-it notes just work better.
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