Showing posts with label shopping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shopping. Show all posts

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Nillionaire

I am broke. No lollygaging on this subject. No preludes and interludes. No festooned descriptions of how, when & why. Coz no matter how hard I try, every subsequent purchase seems to be more frightfully extravagant than the previous one. Resultant, I am well and truly deep into Chapter 11 now. Almost cleaned out, dirt poor & near-penniless.

Until the next 23rd (when my monthly salary will be dutifully, I fervently hope, credited to my depleted account); don't allow your jaw to plunk onto the floor if you find me prowling the streets with a begging bowl in hand & a kilometer-long bill in tow (much like a bridal train). Coz at the rate I'm dishing out the good ol' greenback/plastic, you may more likely than not find my-self-indulging-person in that unenviable, austere position. Either I must soon untangle myself from this dangerous shopping binge (ranging from imprudent bags/exorbitant shoes/expensive apparel to a brand new car) that I seem to getting myself rapidly tangled up into, or face the consequences. And I think you will unwaveringly agree with me that the consequences do not look very shimmery-sunshiny.

Need to buck up and rid myself of this disease that has inflicted me, else might end up in a very special home of sorts.

A remand home, no doubt.

Saturday, July 26, 2008

Retail Therapy

I tell you, its simply the best remedy that can be offered to a distraught mind... Its liberating, extremely satisfying & presents you with paroxysmal happiness. It also burns a hole in your pocket big enough to see a piping hot mexican-green-wave pizza (slurp!) through.... but who cares! (as long as your deserving salary's credited next month). Out goes the pocket-with-a-gaping-hole & in comes a brand new 'un. For a clotheshorse like yours truly, the smell & feel of new clothes is nonpareil. Almost orgasmic. The slightest urge to shop & I'd even brave Mumbai's fickle & unrelenting rains, the resultant slush & the general chaos around, just to quell that drone in my skull yelling - YOU NEED TO GO SHOPPING, GIRL!

So, to all those gloomyheads out there, one piece of advice (sigh.... another gyaan-baatofyer in the house, didn't we ban them all???) Say goodbye to those blues and say hello to colorful hues (ok.... I sound more like an annoying, poorly-rhyming saleswoman now).

I hereby invoke Occam's razor (Occam's...WHAT!! I've totally lost it) and say - Go shop till you drop. And watch your money go pop!