Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Shopping Ban Update

So I wanted to post a brief Shopping Ban Update after the first week or so. I know, I know, its only been like 8 days. But its been interesting how removing the possibility of buying has changed my day--I immediately delete promotional emails from my inbox, and I spend way less time trolling JCrew.com looking for some Fall 08 sweater that I "missed out on".

However, I did have a shopping dream last night. This is so embarrassing to admit, but I know it must relate to the shopping ban so thought I would include it here. I feel a bit like Bizkit the Sleepwalking dog, or perhaps its like a time a few years ago when I tried out the South Beach Diet and I had dreams of French baguettes and waffles.

Anyway, there are many parallels for this, but last night I had a dream I was at Nordstrom's shoe department, and were just bins and bins of shoes, including JCrew shoes ( I think this was a bit of Jeremy's mixed into this scene )--Juliets, Lulus, Cognac heels I hadn't seen before. It was sort of like a realistic shoe wonderland.

The sad part of this dream was not that I had the dream at all, although that is a bit mortifying. The sad part is I attacked the shoes with abandon, trying on shoes for what seemed like over an hour and THEN BUYING them even though I knew I wasn't supposed to. I actually had the whole decision making process in my dream of standing by the counter and narrowing down from a stack to my dream maximum of I believe three pairs.

Sadly, I woke up thinking this had really happened.

Even more sadly, I was SAD I didn't have the shoes in hand when I woke up.

I think I have more to learn--3 more weeks of education ahead!

4 comments:

  1. Your dream cracked me up, I have to admit. I have read (and believe) that we process things through our dream so consider it something good. ;-)

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  2. I give in to my shopping passion daily and have broken my "no shopping" ban constently since Jan 1st. Tomorrow is another day and another challenge. Good luck

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  3. The interpretations given to dreams about shoes are really interesting--you should check out a couple of dream dictionaries!

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  4. During the TJMaxx madness, I had the same type of dream! If you ever see any Lulu peep toes in a 7.5 in your dreams or at Jeremys, please let me know! :) I know you did a search a while back for some other JCAs to no avail, but if you ever pop back in... :) Thanks! kate.cw.lee@gmail.com

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