I'm proud to say that I consider myself to be a responsible shopper.
I think deeply and critically before I buy things.
I rarely regret things that I buy these days.
I never buy something and then a month later think to myself, ah, fuck,
like that was kind of a waste of money, like I'm not even using that thing.
That rarely happens to me anymore.
However, I wasn't always a responsible shopper for like eight years of my life.
I had a shopping addiction and almost every single purchase that I made was an impulse buy.
I wasn't thinking critically about my purchases.
If I wanted something, I would just buy it.
And I think the reason why my shopping addiction went unchecked for so long was
because it wasn't that bad.
Like it was just harmless enough to last for eight years.
Because I wasn't buying a lot of expensive stuff.
It wasn't like I had a shopping addiction and I was addicted to buying Chanel bags.
I was buying stuff from thrift stores, stuff from antique shops that wasn't rare or expensive.
A lot of the stuff I was buying wasn't expensive, so it wasn't financially damaging to me,
which I think made it harder to catch and then ultimately eliminate.
But what ended up happening to me was I started regretting a lot of my purchases and that caused me a bit of stress,
but also I started accumulating a lot of stuff.