Retail Therapy

Last week, as I tried to get over the depression associated with being unemployed and married to a man who thinks I am a housewife, I tried some therapy...retail therapy. You might be wondering why someone on a small fixed income is shopping, as am I, but I couldn't stop myself. I have always been a sucker for a deal and now that I have time to look for these deals I am finding them everywhere.

I started at Meijer, grocery shopping and using all the coupons I cut from the paper. If you bought 5 Campbell's soups and a loaf a bread you got a $5 Meijer coupon. That's like getting it all for free! So I stayed at that do it yourself lane and kept doing it over and over. I now have a lot of bread & soup.

Then I had to go to Menards to pick up parts to fix our wood stove (wood heat is cheap) and found some other good things, like these balls to put in your dryer that cut down on dry time, and really cheap rakes we'll need this fall. You know, the necessities!

But all this shopping got me feeling like more shopping and so I went to Ulta. And bought some makeup that was on sale, that I didn't really need. But I saw this advertisement on TV aimed at unemployed persons and it said to "invest in yourself" so I did.

The trip to Ulta then led me into TJ Maxx & Old Navy, because they're in the same plaza. I needed to find Ben new jeans but I also found me a new sweater. And I had to go to Old Navy because they so nicely had sent me a coupon.

So that was all Monday. The next day I met Marie at the mall, and on another day I met my mom at TJ Maxx, and by the weekend I was feeling a little guilty about buying new things so I went to some church sales on Friday & Saturday. There I filled bags for only $1.00 and got so many more things! I bought items for basically everyone I know so if you are reading this and I know you I probably have a bag in my dining room just waiting for you!

I don't know how well the therapy worked...but I think it did a little because I read my post titled "I'm a Loser" and thought to myself, "That girl is pathetic, I am way cooler than her."