I Fought the Urge, and WON!

Posted by Jenn Greenleaf Aug 4, 2009

For those of you who have been following me on this blog, or my other one, you know I have a serious addiction to office supplies (fetish, love . . . whatever you want to call it). While running 1,000’s of various and sundry errands yesterday, I picked school supplies up for all four kids – high school stuff (lots of notebooks, binders, paper, writing instruments, etc.) for my nephew, and elementary appropriate things for my three little ones (who, oddly enough, aren’t so little anymore . . . ::weeps::).

There was a battle, and I won! There was a strong, nearly over-powering, urge to buy cases of notebooks and filler paper. There was an overwhelming need for goodies like fancy paperclips, neat looking pens, decorative folders, and notebooks of all different sizes that I KNOW I could’ve found many uses for. I was in the aisles, walking ever so slowly, fighting with myself over if I should or should not pick these items up or not . . .

Needless to day, I walked out of the store having purchased only what was on my list. I was shocked. I was amazed. The urge was fought, and the battle was won! Last year (and the several years before), I caved in and regretted it later. This year, I have to be smarter with our funds for a number of reasons . . . and I’m so proud of myself for not letting the urge to feed my fetish take over! (It brought back memories of trying to figure out how I could buy out all the paper my neighbors had for sale at their garage sales while I was growing up.)