Addicted to The Real Real

Joining this group because I’m realizing my problem was worse than I thought. I browse in my free time, looking for gems. I build a library of obsessions. And then I become genuinely obsessed. I started checking my likes first thing in the morning, to see if they’d be discounted more, or worse, purchased. I couldn’t stop thinking about them. The gameification of secondhand shopping online, of a “likes” tab, has been bad for me. This weekend I could no longer take it, and bought everything on my likes list, to the tune of $1000.

Not great. I have a pesky credit card debt of 10k that I can’t lower bc of moments like this, and I have until the new year before the interest kicks in. I want to go as hard at it as I can before that. Luckily most of the stuff I ordered is returnable if I don’t love it but best of all, the items are no longer weighting on my mind. I feel free. Even tho I’m 1k more deep in the hole. Deleting that app once returns are made. I am not in the right mind frame for this kind of shopping. :(