Thread: The Voice of Reason...

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I read all the entries about Michael's having put out the goodies, so I stopped by after work and picked up a FEW things, REALLY, only a few. When I got home that night I realized that the "RIP" stone with the skull on top was smashed on the bottom, usually not a problem, very "fixable" but I decided to take it back instead and exchange it for a new one. Well...

I went to the Michael's in Cedar Hill which is WAY closer to my house than driving back to Dallas. Mistake, Mistake, Mistake. The Cedar Hill Michael's had MORE stuff out than the Dallas store...you see this coming, right? Well, in I went to very innocently exchange my $ 16.99 item, when I went to get the new one from the shelf I started to see the things I hadn't seen at the other store. I don't know about you guys but I get this feeling like giddiness, mixed with complete resistance failure that you can literally feel in your muscles...you know, the kind of feeling that makes you wanna smoke afterwards.

Anyway, an extra $130.00 on top of the original $16.99 later, I came out with 7 bags full of bottles and "old fashioned" looking table top items, not anything large or over $12.99 and mostly under $5.99. All the way home I kept trying think up ways to justify what I bought, not to myself, but to the one that's gonna kill me and use me for a prop in my own front yard!

Needless to say I had to sneak all this stuff into the shop and up into the loft after hubby went to work! I never could come up with a really good story, darn it.

Do you guys ever have this happen to you, and do you stuff your treasures away until later? My husband won't really make big fuss...I hope!

Where is that little voice of reason when you need it?

i don't have a voice of reason

You know, I suffer from the same problem. I buy stuff for HW that I don't 'need', and I feel guilty enough about it to sneak it in the garage when I get home.

Of course, I lecture my wife when she comes home with bags of stuff... but at least she doesn't hide it. (that I am aware of!)

I find another tendency of people like us is to "forget" what stuff actually costs. When the spouse asks, we might say "I dunno, about $20." When in reality it cost $29.95 plus tax.

The voice of reason is a tiny, wimpy good for nothing thing. He loses every fight. I always hear people talk about not buying stuff when you see it, but rather let it dwell and if you still want it... then maybe you need it.

Not me. Not you. I may wait a day, but I'll go back and buy MORE than I originally intended!

What is this "voice of reason" you speak of? I have a lotta voices in my head and I'm pretty sure none of them are named Reason.

Wilbret:

I wanna go shopping with YOU! I know ALL about the "price conversion' method, hee,hee.

I also have this same problem with shoes. Only the little voice of reason is saying "buy the shoes, you can get a new outfit to match them, buy the shoes".

Heck I got lots of will power!

It's won't power i seem to lack.

I had my voice of reason killed off quite a while ago. It use to interfere with my Halloween shopping expeditions and well, we can't have that can we?

I used to have a voice of reason,then i buried her.......now the little man in my thumb tells what to do..............................

All too well do I know that giddy feeling when the Halloween stuff first comes out. It's almost the same feeling as falling in love or going to see your favorite band in concert for the first time

I'm having a hard time this year trying to restrain myself from losing my mind in Garden Ridge or @ Michael's, since I'm spending a boatload of $ on my cemetery fence. Once the H-ween stuff is in Target & Walmart and everywhere else, my self-control will wither and DIE! I can avoid specialty stores, but I can't avoid buying groceries and TP

Truth be told, my worst lapses of shopping restraint are at the after-Halloween clearances. I'm a sucker for 50% off I spend all my b-day $ on Halloween clearance goodies (my b-day is Halloween!), then pack it away for the next year. Since it's largely my $, I don't even bother trying to sneak the bags in. DH just rolls his eyes and asks where on earth I'm going to store all the new stuff!

I'm the queen of hiding things and then bringing them out later. I just gleefully pull it out and say something like "oh, there's the ----- that I got such a great deal on after Halloween last year" or "I've had that a couple years now, just forgot to use it" or "I've had that awhile, don't you remember how nice it looked on the -----?"
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