A Groundbreaking Experiment

Thursday: gold Jimmy Choo sandals

Gasp! Has hell frozen over? Because I’ve decided to put myself on a shopping diet…. Though it does depend on what you think the word “diet” means. I’m not into the whole cold turkey thing, by any means. That never works; depriving yourself completely just makes you more susceptible to bingeing. I’m all about easing into things. So, as I mentioned, on my West Coast trip (during the sales no less) I bought a mere two items. Perhaps I’ll be able to get down to one item per week… then one item per fortnight… then…

Granted, this is a lousy time to begin a diet. Right in the middle of the sales? But when is there ever a good time? It’s like, beginning a diet-diet just before swimsuit season — but then there’s Easter and Passover and all that good food. You can’t start during the summer, either, with all the entertaining you do. Then comes fall, and before you know it, it’s Halloween… then Thanksgiving… then Christmas and Hanukkah… then New Year’s… then Valentine’s Day… I could go on forever. And just the same way, this is a bad time to cut out shopping, since the sales are going on. And then the fall merch will be in stores, and God knows how much I love fall clothes… There are temptations year round.

But once you make that momentous decision, you gotta start sometime. (Thank goodness I did plenty of shopping this year already, so I do still have some new things to enjoy…) So here I go. Day one: 0 in-store purchases, 0 online orders. 0 window shopping excursions. V. v. good!

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