We all experience that love/hate relationship with the beloved red bullseye. We all love going but end up hating ourselves while walking out the door knowing how much money we just spent. Here's the Target thought process that makes us leave with 100 different items when we went for a single tube of mascara:
You've just walked through the sliding red doors and to your right is the in-store Starbucks. You think to yourself, "Ugh, what's better than walking through Target with a Starbucks coffee in hand?" The answer is nothing. Grande caramel macchiato, please.
After paying for your Starbucks drink, you realized how much you really hate your old wallet. You tell yourself, "What could be the harm of going to look in the purse section?" You promise you won't buy anything unless it's on sale. Oh, 15.99?! What a steal!
You ended up picking out a wallet. You also picked up a matching purse, tote bag, and luggage tag. But in all seriousness, you thought you needed all of that (at the time). AND it was on sale, so who cares? Now with all your cute new baggage you might as well head over to the clothing section so you can create a bomb outfit to top it all off.
You pick out three new sweaters to finish winter with and they were on sale because spring is around the corner! "Omg, I forgot about spring break. Where's the swim suit aisle?!"
The two new bikinis you just picked out have you smiling from ear to ear. Then you think to yourself , "Crap. What did I come here for again?
"Oh yeah, mascara." *heads to makeup aisles*
You pick out your favorite tube of mascara but continue to walk through the entire makeup section. Let's face it, new makeup is impossible to turn down. "I just lost my old pink lip gloss, I could use another... maybe a new red lipstick, too."
Okay. Now your arms are getting tired of carrying around all your soon to be purchases. You decide it's time to head to the check out line. When walking to the cashiers, you pass the home decor aisles. Your eyes are caught by the cute throw pillows that are sequined and embroidered with cute sayings like "Good morning beautiful". You then decide it's a perfect time to start buying furniture and home decor for your very own (non-existent) apartment that you will someday have.
With five pillows, two throw blankets, and a coffee table added to your purchase pile, you kart your stuff down to the cashier (again).
You made it to the check out line, there's about three people in front of you so you start browsing through all the magazines, movies, and other knick-knacks by the cashiers. You take two magazines because you wanted to read about how the latest bachelor/bachelorette season couple broke up, and you snagged the latest Melissa McCarthy movie because you and your girlfriends love her and who doesn't love a girls night in movie night?
The cashier rings you up and the total nearly gives you a heart attack, but you go along with it because you're still so excited about all the new stuff you just bought!
The sadness of your disappearing money won't hit you until next week. What's even more sad is that you'll be back in two weeks to do it all over again.
