Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Material girl

I am hanging my head in shame. I have been a bad bad girl lately. Rather than spending my limited free time wisely when the cherub naps, I got caught up with the greed demon, Mammon. All these newsletters bombarding my inbox, announcing their sale season has begun, successfully ignited the dormant desire to possess worldly gains.

Hitting the stores in Stuttgart hasn't been happening that frequently for a long while now. Which fully explains my latest preoccupation in the comfort of my couch: shopping online.

In contrast to traditional shopping, online shopping is way more addictive and for a few moments there, I panicked and wondered if I have turned into a compulsive online shopper. Let's just say spending every second of my spare time everyday browsing those online shops doesn't sound exactly sane.

In my vain and shallow attempt to be hip, trendy, be a fashionista or whatever you call it these days, it's not helping when the many loots arrived and I discovered I don't really need those items. How many brogues, dresses, skirts, sweaters, cardigans does one need actually? Not that I am that IT girl whose social calendar is filled to the brim thus a different getup everyday is a requisite. I am just an ordinary mortal so of course I don't need so many of these glad rags. My wardrobe is already bursting with you-know-what that the man quipped it's high time I do some spring cleaning. Mammon is obviously working its psychological urge of 'I want, I want, I want!' here.

But sadly for Mammon, I am ruled by Capricorn's ruling planet, Saturn. The strict composure and self-control of Saturn has got my good sense back. I am sending most stuff back except for one, two items. Talk about wasting time. Heh.