You're listening to the Girl Next Door Podcast. I'm Kelsey.

And I'm Erica. We're two former next door neighbors and good friends who love a good chat and a good laugh.

We're inviting you to come on in, have a drink, and stay a while.

Hey, friend. Hey, friend. Today we're talking about whether we are over or under buyers.

These are traits described by the writer Gretchen Rubin, whose personality framework I am

personally a little bit obsessed with. So first to give everyone some context about what over and

under buyers are, Rubin says you might be an overbuyer if you relate to the following. You have huge

supplies of personal care items like shampoo, lotion, and medicines. You often buy something

thinking it will make a great gift without a recipient in mind. If you find an article of clothing

you like, you might buy it in a few different colors. And you think buying these

things shows that I'm responsible, organized, and thoughtful. All right. An underbuyer might relate to

these, which spoiler, as I was reading this, I relate to these 100%. Same for me, but the former.

Oh my gosh. Okay.

Here's for an underbuyer.

You might buy something you use daily, like saline solution, one unit at a time.

You often scramble to buy an item like a winter coat or bathing suit after the point at which you need it.

And often, these items are sold out by the time you show up at a store.

You often consider buying an item, then decide, I'll get this some other time, or maybe we don't really need this.

And do you think not buying these things shows that I'm frugal and not a consumerist sucker?

So we did have to reveal our tendency already. So tell me more about the, how being an overbuyer

rings true for you. And tell me about your mindset and motivation behind being an overbuyer.

Okay. So I am so much an overbuyer and COVID is not helping that.

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