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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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  • silverwhisper said on May 15, 2007....
    hm...i don't think there's anything like that for me.

    btw, it's great to see you again, danette--it's been months!

    ed
  • uniquely-ironic said on May 15, 2007....
    I seem to accumulate an ungodly amount of scented soaps, bubble bath, bath salts and all other bath accessories and I'm not really a bath kind of person.  Good think my daughter is.
  • danetteb said on May 17, 2007....
    LOL.  Bath things are so appealing though!

    Thanks for the welcome back silver, don't know if I said it yet, but I'm working like a mad person.  Its good to be back for a bit though!
  • silverwhisper said on May 17, 2007....
    sorry you've been so busy, danette. it's good to see you, even if briefly. :>

    ed
  • cotteralladams3 said on May 18, 2007....
    receipts, bookmarks, papers, pictures, magazines, paintings, beer and other stuff.
  • sweetlady said on May 24, 2007....
    I think one thing I do buy when tempted is magazines.  I see the cover in the shop and I think that looks so interesting.  I think I must read about Victoria Beckham or some other celebrity.  I buy the magazine, maybe read one or two articles and then I put it in a pile.  I have quite a pile of magazines in the living room.  I have still got to go through them and decide what I want to read and then put them in the recycling.

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