Consumerist withdrawal

[featherynscale]

I'm at an odd phase in the whole consumerist/anti-materialist tug-of-war.

I need a pair of tennis shoes. This is a legitimate need if I'm going to do this fencing thing, since my boots don't so much have traction on the bottom (which encourages me to slide rather than pick up my feet -- my first Bad Habit! -- and will no doubt one day trip me up, causing me to collapse in a heap with my foil up my nose). So I think I'll go pick some up today. No problem - legitimate need, legitimate purpose. The problem is that I think if I'm going shopping, I should hit a few more places. Now, I don't need anything else, and in all likelihood I won't buy anything else, but I can't resist the temptation of going to look, even though I know I'm not going to buy.

I guess this is a form of cheap entertainment, so on the scale of the world's evils, pretty minor, but still. What a waste of an afternoon.

Comments

[kcwitch.livejournal.com]

what? you're telling me you went shopping without me? i'm crushed! :)

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Just for shoes. Nobody *likes* to shop for shoes. It is possibly the dullest form of shopping there is, unless the other option is shopping for bras.

I had to, in self-defense, besides :-P

Had I gone with you, I'd have come home with three pair instead of one, and one of they would be sparkly and pink with kitties on them.

[kcwitch.livejournal.com]

this is very true. i am a bad person to shop with if you don't want to spend money. ;)

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you have to have a real firm grip on your persona to get away with sparkly pink kitten fencing shoes.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

And see, I don't even have a persona. So the kitten shoes? Right out.