Ep 190: Buy the Disco Ball (It's Going To Be Okay)
Gee Thanks, Just Bought It!
Caroline Moss
4.6 • 912 Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2024
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Caroline Moss shares her favorite gift she got during her divorce and why it felt more meaningful than anything else she purchased during her grief shopping sprees. Buy your disco ball here.
Caroline Moss runs the online community Gee Thanks Just Bought It and shares tips on shopping smarter.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Caroline Moss and it's going to be okay. |
| 0:07.0 | When I moved out of my house last year and into a new space, my friend Catherine sent me a housewarming present in the form of an 8 inch disco ball. |
| 0:20.0 | I bought one during the early days of COVID, the card read. It was a very nice addition to my space in an otherwise not super great time. |
| 0:28.0 | In early 2023, I was deep in the throes of my own not super great time. |
| 0:34.3 | My husband and I decided to lovingly, amicably, respectfully, and our marriage. |
| 0:40.8 | And don't let the Guenith and hold play of it all fool you. |
| 0:43.2 | Consciously uncoupling is still pretty sad. I didn't know if I wanted to stay in |
| 0:48.7 | Los Angeles. My family was across the country. Most of my friends were scattered across time zones and state lines and long drives. |
| 0:57.0 | But also, I can work from anywhere. |
| 1:00.0 | So then why did I just rent a house six minutes from where I had been living? |
| 1:04.4 | Because the house was great, it had room for the inflatable hot tub, and I wasn't ready to leave LA, |
| 1:09.2 | being my answer. |
| 1:11.6 | But at the time, I was very much like what the F am I doing as I continued to just do things like post |
| 1:22.0 | sales on Instagram and disassociate in my aforementioned inflatable hot tub. |
| 1:28.1 | This went on for months. You can listen to this episode of Gee Thanks Just Bought |
| 1:32.1 | it where I told my guest co-host Sally, |
| 1:35.5 | all of the things I grief shopped for this time last year. |
| 1:39.9 | Packages kept arriving, things I bought myself, |
| 1:42.8 | thinking they'd be the key to escaping my depression, |
| 1:45.6 | only to become more depressed |
| 1:47.6 | when I would inevitably realize that I would not |
| 1:49.6 | be cured by retail therapy. |
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