I'm proud to say that I consider myself to be a responsible shopper.

I think deeply and critically before I buy things.

I rarely regret things that I buy these days.

I never buy something and then a month later think to myself,

ah, fuck.

Like, that was kind of a waste of money.

Like, I'm not even using that thing.

That rarely happens to me anymore. However, I wasn't of a waste of money. Like, I'm not even using that thing. That rarely happens to me anymore.

However, I wasn't always a responsible shopper.

For like eight years of my life, I had a shopping addiction, and almost every single purchase

that I made was an impulse buy.

I wasn't thinking critically about my purchases.

If I wanted something, I would just buy it. And I think the reason

why my shopping addiction went unchecked for so long was because it wasn't that bad.

Like, it was just harmless enough to last for eight years. Because I wasn't buying a lot of

expensive stuff. It wasn't like I had a shopping addiction and I was addicted to buying like Chanel

bags. I was buying like stuff had a shopping addiction and I was addicted to buying like Chanel bags.

I was buying like stuff from thrift stores, stuff from antique shops that wasn't like rare or

expensive. Like a lot of the stuff I was buying wasn't expensive. So it wasn't financially

damaging to me, which I think made it harder to catch and then

ultimately eliminate. But what ended up happening to me was I started regretting a lot of my

purchases. And that caused me a bit of stress, but also I started accumulating a lot of stuff.

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