The day after I posted on this blog last month, all proud that I hadn’t felt the need to cheat, yada yada, and saying that really the only thing on my post-September list was a pair of running shoes, what to my wondering eyes did appear, but a pair of my favorite brand of running shoes at 70% off!
I briefly considered walking away but then quickly ran down a hasty list of justifications and in no time at all, well, you read the title so you know what comes next… Do you want to hear my list? OK, here goes:
1. This is fate. A higher power has spoken. I just blogged about this…”ask and the universe shall provide,” right?
2. Running shoes are a tool, not really apparel. I don’t buy them because I want to and get a fashion high from them, but rather because they wear out and I need to replace them to stay healthy.
3. Though this is a purchase, it does comply with my new pledge to stop recreational shopping, and to only buy things that I have decided that I need. This is the one thing I’ve said I need and will buy, right?
4. Wow. 70% off!
5. I will buy them now, and keep them in the closet until September. So really it’s just a budgeting issue–post-TGAAD I get new shoes that I just happened to pay for a few months before.
Did I convince you? Obviously, I convinced myself. However, at the end of the day and this list of justifications, the truth is that I cheated. But I’m back on the wagon now!
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