Taking control over my shopping addiction
I don't know why, but this year more than any other year, my shopping addiction has really gotten to me. Maybe as I have gotten older I have realized that all that material crap I collect doesn't really do anything except make me feel worse.
I decided that I needed to make some serious changes in my life and the biggest change I wanted to make was around my financial freedom. I have a well paying job, but with two kids, living in an expensive area and my issue with shopping it isn't leaving me with much left. I think back over the past few years and all the shit I have bought. Not many of those things mean anything to me right now. They meant so much to me at the time. Probably more to dig into on that topic.
I decided that my first step was to look at all the shit I have bought and decide what of it I actually wear or use. I have spent all my money on it....so rather than just keep it and try to save I might as well get rid of it and make some money back. This thinking had me awake at 3am and I decided to get up and spend the next hour assessing mostly my shoes and handbags and determine where to sell them.
I know myself well enough to know that I can jump into these things and then overwhelm myself to the point that I won't sustain it. So rather than spending the next five hours I decided I would only spend an hour and see what I could get done.
So here is what I ended up with:
I listed 12 items on eBay with five day listings. I get too impatient with the seven days.
I loaded four items into Fashiophile to see what they would offer me - this includes one of my favorite bags ever.....a bag that I dreamt about and stalked online.....which hasn't been used in over two years. So waste of time? I would think so.
I filled up a thredUP clean out bag with all the other items that I didn't think I would score enough on selling myself.
I am hoping this one hour may result in my making close to $3000. This is the goal of all the items that I am trying to unload. That $3000 will go directly to a credit card. I need to be careful not to put it in my bank account and then magically spend it. Super weird how that happens...I know.
I am going to see if I can try to spend an hour a day focusing on this goal. I am not sure what I am going to focus on tomorrow and I am not going to worry about that today. I am just going to take it one day at a time and see if that helps me chip away at the debt that I have incurred and also help me STOP buying crap that I do not need.
I decided that I needed to make some serious changes in my life and the biggest change I wanted to make was around my financial freedom. I have a well paying job, but with two kids, living in an expensive area and my issue with shopping it isn't leaving me with much left. I think back over the past few years and all the shit I have bought. Not many of those things mean anything to me right now. They meant so much to me at the time. Probably more to dig into on that topic.
I decided that my first step was to look at all the shit I have bought and decide what of it I actually wear or use. I have spent all my money on it....so rather than just keep it and try to save I might as well get rid of it and make some money back. This thinking had me awake at 3am and I decided to get up and spend the next hour assessing mostly my shoes and handbags and determine where to sell them.
I know myself well enough to know that I can jump into these things and then overwhelm myself to the point that I won't sustain it. So rather than spending the next five hours I decided I would only spend an hour and see what I could get done.
So here is what I ended up with:
I listed 12 items on eBay with five day listings. I get too impatient with the seven days.
I loaded four items into Fashiophile to see what they would offer me - this includes one of my favorite bags ever.....a bag that I dreamt about and stalked online.....which hasn't been used in over two years. So waste of time? I would think so.
I filled up a thredUP clean out bag with all the other items that I didn't think I would score enough on selling myself.
I am hoping this one hour may result in my making close to $3000. This is the goal of all the items that I am trying to unload. That $3000 will go directly to a credit card. I need to be careful not to put it in my bank account and then magically spend it. Super weird how that happens...I know.
I am going to see if I can try to spend an hour a day focusing on this goal. I am not sure what I am going to focus on tomorrow and I am not going to worry about that today. I am just going to take it one day at a time and see if that helps me chip away at the debt that I have incurred and also help me STOP buying crap that I do not need.
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