Sometimes the shopping cleanse is easy, other times it is so hard.
Easy: I used that $10 bounceback to buy something for exactly $10 and then return it for store credit, which has no expiration & I can save for post-cleanse!
Easy: I found the box for the margarita glasses, and the receipt, so I can return them & get the money back on my debit card!
Hard: We had a $575 2 carat diamond tennis bracelet on sale at work today for $76 after all my coupons and discounts...I was literally salivating. But I had to resist! No diamond bracelet is worth giving up my cleanse (and pride).
So I have to say, so far, so good... I'm actually really excited to get to a point in the cleanse when I am not buying birthday gifts, graduation gifts, mothers' and fathers' day gifts, bridesmaid stuff, and can actually start reevaluating my finances and coming up with budgets (anyone who knows me knows I love lists) and seeing my money make money!
As far as the cravings, that is the hardest part. I literally crave possessing things - today for example. Today I wanted to buy: a TapOut t-shirt, a pair of black ankle boots, kitchen towels, wall-art, a white frame, that diamond bracelet, a coach wristlet, and travel sized "viva la juicy" perfume. I'm not even making any of that up, that is literally a list of things that I saw or thought about today and planned on buying until the big bodyguard in my head beat down the offending thoughts into a poor, shopless, pulp.
I may never be cured of the thoughts, but the cleanse is helping me flex my self control muscles. It's like Bank-Account-Boot-Camp, and I'm just getting warmed up.
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