Day 8 of 61

Day 8 of 61: Blissful Denial

We've all walked into Target needing only one thing, but we walk out with a hundred dollars worth of "one thing." The thing is, this is my addiction in a nut shell. I apply this "one thing" mentality to every store, especially my guilty pleasure, Wahlgreens. Okay, I know what your thinking...Wahlgreens? Yup.

Just seeing the sign raises the hairs on my arms and creates a little patch of saliva on the corners of my mouth. Salivate. Salivate.

To make the matter funnier, I have always lived within one mile of a Wahlgreens. Atlanta, Miami, and now Chicago, find my home, and you'll find Wahlgreens within close Mapquest vicinity. By choice? Not really, I don't think, but I think my conscious would beg to differ.

Here's the thing, day 8, I entered a Wahlgreens! I know, I know, what could I possibly need there, when I just bought over three hundred dollars worth of stuff at the grocery store on day 5? Why I was there isn't the issue. I think. The questionable action is why did I stay so long? Why did I slowly stroll through aisles I had no business strolling down. I knew I was in mud the second I stepped in.

The delicious part is that I found a moisturizing cocoa butter body scrub by Neutrogena (new!), Blistex Lip Massage (new! micro scrubbing lip balm), LypSyl Lyp Moisturizer (with pure Swedish beeswax), two packages of gummi worms (fat-free), more hair mousse (when I have 3 bottles at home), and Listerine strips. If the world were to end, I would have enough hair products for all the Little Women.

To a normal shopper, no big deal. To this chick, ugh! I mini failed. I walked into one of my biggest weaknesses, and proceeded to enjoy buying needless crap. Not stuff, crap.

But, I'm not upset or discouraged. How could I possibly begin to complain....my boyfriend's lips are silky smooth, my lips are buttery soft, my stomach is happy, my hair is less frizzy, and my breath is fresh. Why complain???

Good night,
Discouraged Shopaholic