Confessions of a (Window) Shopaholic

Like probably a majority of women out there, I have a slight *ahem maybe not so slight* addiction to shopping. Yes, I'm afraid I could be classified as a shopaholic. However, there is a slight twist to my madness, which might be considered better or worse than your typical shopaholic, depending on how you look at it. I would say I'm a window shopaholic because I don't really buy a whole lot of what I look at. How much you say? Well honestly, I've never really done any of this "hauling" women post videos and pictures of themselves doing. Except for perhaps this Labor day, since I realized I did indeed post one such picture. Whoops, I guess you could add hypocrite to my list of faults too. But in all honestly, I rarely buy tons of thins in one go, save groceries/essentials. Even black friday as of late has been very quiet. A few clothes here and there, some of which would be gifts, and a few DVDs. Part of this may be the fact that I've slowly transferred my wardrobe into a more "adult" style and so there is less to buy, the fact that I'm not around my sister much being in a different city, and probably the most prominent factor, which is that I've basically got negative income being in school. 

So while I may not buy an extreme amount, I make up for it by window shopping. A lot. It's been made a whole lot easier too with the lovely internet. I'll spend hours (yes, I know I should spend it studying and I'd be doing so much better, dangit!) surfing the sites, ogling at things I'd love to buy if they were on sale or if I had the money or if I would use it. And then I'd sit there for hours more trying to convince myself to either just suck it up and buy it or that I wouldn't use it enough/have no use for it. It'll be a constant internal battle, and usually the don't buy it/cheap side of me wins out. But only after many hours. And plenty of times I will still just window shop the same object. For example, I've staked out the same green J Crew necklace on Ebay for well over a month, just seeing if it's still there. So while my wallet isn't getting damaged by my little shopaholic tendencies (which reminds me--I actually need a new wallet. Gah!), I waste an unfortunately large amount of time window shopping. 

I suppose the only good thing about it is that at least window shopping doesn't put me into horrendous debt like the character of the novels :)