C'est la vie
Clothes Horse - a framework on which to hang clothes (as for drying); according to Wiki it also refers to a person excessively or obsessively interested in clothes, often to a humorous extent.
I am a veritable clothes horse, I simply keep on buying clothes. And I totally hate myself for that. It is useless, vain and leaves a huge carbon foot print. But the urge is so strong that it just takes over and overrides all better judgment and I end up sleep walking into a store and buy some outfit or the other. My husband thinks it is the same stuff I keep on buying and no two dresses look different! Personally some I love and keep on wearing them day in and day out (must be the repetitive variety), but some I have huge remorse over and they just veg on my wardrobe shelf till I give them away to charity in every six months. Most of the times I am angry at myself for these sudden bouts of madness. So for a decade now I have been fighting to disclipline myself but I so miserably fail to meet my goal.
As a close friend is getting married soon I have a huge excuse to buy some new stuff but I have been just telling myself to be a sensible person and not waste money in these times of recessions, I have no qualms in admitting that it is indeed giving me sleepless nights. As luck would have it this just had to be the time when I catch some Hollywood trivia to agonize myself further. My great hero Johnny Depp had impulsively bought an island while on a holiday!!! Wow! May be not all of us can do that but surely it must be great fun to just impulsively buy off an island or a village as I would like in the mountains somewhere!
Here I am curbing the extreme urge to buy a new sari or an outfit (still in two minds there) and Johnny goes and buys an island! But I am sure even for Depp this must be one of those expensive impulsive purchases, but as he had invested in property I am sure he will reap the dividends well so he definitely does not have to go through the so called 'buyer's remorse' thereafter. So just thought I will publicly list my crimes and as dear reader you will find them absolute horrendous may be you can suggest how I can cure myself of this illness. Or even better if you can list what is the most expensive impulsive purchase that you have made probably it will be funnier. So here I go...
1. Buying a Go Trek jacket and instantly burning it accidentally within couple of hours and come to think of it I don't particularly like the colour - Rs. 1800.00
2. The high heels, low heels, no heels shoes that keep on piling on my shoe rack. Total cost - Rs 5,000.00
3. Trendy tops which I did not wear more than once - Rs 800 (thank heavens these were all from export reject stores)
4. Accumulated value of clothes which I purchased but hardly wore - Rs. 15,000.00 (I just realized I am a horrible person)
Please tell me dear readers am I mad or should I be institutionalized?
I am a veritable clothes horse, I simply keep on buying clothes. And I totally hate myself for that. It is useless, vain and leaves a huge carbon foot print. But the urge is so strong that it just takes over and overrides all better judgment and I end up sleep walking into a store and buy some outfit or the other. My husband thinks it is the same stuff I keep on buying and no two dresses look different! Personally some I love and keep on wearing them day in and day out (must be the repetitive variety), but some I have huge remorse over and they just veg on my wardrobe shelf till I give them away to charity in every six months. Most of the times I am angry at myself for these sudden bouts of madness. So for a decade now I have been fighting to disclipline myself but I so miserably fail to meet my goal.
As a close friend is getting married soon I have a huge excuse to buy some new stuff but I have been just telling myself to be a sensible person and not waste money in these times of recessions, I have no qualms in admitting that it is indeed giving me sleepless nights. As luck would have it this just had to be the time when I catch some Hollywood trivia to agonize myself further. My great hero Johnny Depp had impulsively bought an island while on a holiday!!! Wow! May be not all of us can do that but surely it must be great fun to just impulsively buy off an island or a village as I would like in the mountains somewhere!
Here I am curbing the extreme urge to buy a new sari or an outfit (still in two minds there) and Johnny goes and buys an island! But I am sure even for Depp this must be one of those expensive impulsive purchases, but as he had invested in property I am sure he will reap the dividends well so he definitely does not have to go through the so called 'buyer's remorse' thereafter. So just thought I will publicly list my crimes and as dear reader you will find them absolute horrendous may be you can suggest how I can cure myself of this illness. Or even better if you can list what is the most expensive impulsive purchase that you have made probably it will be funnier. So here I go...
1. Buying a Go Trek jacket and instantly burning it accidentally within couple of hours and come to think of it I don't particularly like the colour - Rs. 1800.00
2. The high heels, low heels, no heels shoes that keep on piling on my shoe rack. Total cost - Rs 5,000.00
3. Trendy tops which I did not wear more than once - Rs 800 (thank heavens these were all from export reject stores)
4. Accumulated value of clothes which I purchased but hardly wore - Rs. 15,000.00 (I just realized I am a horrible person)
Please tell me dear readers am I mad or should I be institutionalized?
Comments
'Cognative dissonence' has become a regular part of my life...!!
But what the hell... you live only once...!!!
So,Carry on dear....Here's to many more...
(PS- do let me know, if you get fed up with saris, before you give them to charity though... :D)
the remark is hmm.
the reason being, [1]there are far more important crimes than yours. [2] clothes are kind of extensions of us besides shoes, accessories et al. [3] we shed skin. [4] most importantly, i am there in line before you. and trust me by the time they are done with the admission processes for me, the entire unit will be scrapped. :).
The most I spend these days is on fiber and books and I don't regret it. I wouldn't even want an island.
I don't know if this is true or not, but my class V history book had a chapter about Garibaldi. It seems he kept only two shirts - he'd wear the second when he had washed the first.