I didn't mean to. I went to the mall with the intentions of just buying one thing; yet somehow, I walked out of the store with five shirts, two pairs of jeans, and a $240 charge on my credit card. I couldn't stop myself.
It's extremely frustrating to be addicted to shopping. Especially when you go in your favorite store and see a million things you'd love to buy. It takes a lot of self-control to live this lifestyle and every now and then, you can't help but lose it.
Every now and then, a shopaholic has got to do what shopaholics love to do, which is obviously shop and blow some money. No one understands how hard it is to go over a month without buying yourself a couple new shirts or dresses, no one except a fellow shopaholic.
When I'm going on one of my splurge trips, AKA a trip where I buy several things I don't (but actually do) need when I have no business charging anything to my card, I like to think about the simpler times; the times when the most expensive thing I wanted was the $30 jeans in Limited Too. Now, things are serious. It's almost impossible to make it out of any store I'd be caught dead in without spending at least $100.
I really try hard to avoid thinking about is how nice it must be to be a guy. All they need is a couple pairs of khaki pants, a couple pairs of khaki shorts, a few button ups and polos, maybe some athletic shorts, and a few t-shirts and they're legitimately set. Girls have to have several different colors of pants, shorts, and leggings, a dozen different casual dresses, and millions of cute tops and t-shirts, because ya know, if we repeat an outfit, it's the end of the world.
In a perfect world, I'd go to my favorite store every three days and buy everything I saw that I loved. And I'd order at least one thing online every day. But this isn't a perfect world and I'm a poor college student.
So basically, I'm going to use my shopping addiction to succeed in school. How you ask? By using my need for money to buy everything I want to give me a reason to work hard. You can't buy what you want if you don't have money. Money comes from a job, and a well-paying job comes from an education.
So here we go. Get ready to work hard or suffer the consequence: you die from not feeding your shopping addiction.
