This blog entry is about $MONEY$! and my no-spending diet.
It's been pretty difficult to resist spending, and I'm very masochistic in the fact that I am still subscribed to receive updates from my favorite online stores! I'm sharing below a list of items that I've been dying to own, but......but I must resist. And so they continue to be online big teases, and I shall resist!
But I need to share the list, perhaps to bring me some closure. I used to have a diary, in which I would jot down ideas and make pros/cons list and almost always, I'd discover something while writing that gave me a sense of peace or understanding. I never know in advance what I'm going to write, and maybe an idea will come to me that will actually bring me closure, and then I will have achieved my goal for today.
1. ModCloth No International Shipping promotion!
ModCloth is having a sale where shipping is free for international shipping! I live in Canada, and ModCloth works in the USA, so shipping to Canada is less than ideal. I bought a skirt and a handtowel, coming out to about 100$ after tax, in US dollars, so that meant I had to pay the bank's exchange rate + a 2.5% credit card fee for the foreign currency. Then, the shipping, the shipping! The shipping base rate was around 20$ (I can't remember exactly), and then the customs ! The customs fee was another 20-30$. So the whole thing cost me an arm, and it is a major source of lost money. See, if I lived in the USA, I'd be able to get free return shipping, and if the total cost is above a certain amount, free shipping to your house as well!
I love ModCloth, since they have so many 40s and 50s style dresses (as well as other eras), but this is a style I seriously love, I almost wish I lived in that era with the dresses and the music (but at the same time, I'm happy I live in this era, where I am able to work and have an independent life, independent on the income of a man, for example). They have so many cool and quirky styles and objects, and so many pretty dresses, I want so many items.
So I think you now understand why this deal here is a total tease +100.
It's been pretty difficult to resist spending, and I'm very masochistic in the fact that I am still subscribed to receive updates from my favorite online stores! I'm sharing below a list of items that I've been dying to own, but......but I must resist. And so they continue to be online big teases, and I shall resist!
But I need to share the list, perhaps to bring me some closure. I used to have a diary, in which I would jot down ideas and make pros/cons list and almost always, I'd discover something while writing that gave me a sense of peace or understanding. I never know in advance what I'm going to write, and maybe an idea will come to me that will actually bring me closure, and then I will have achieved my goal for today.
1. ModCloth No International Shipping promotion!
ModCloth is having a sale where shipping is free for international shipping! I live in Canada, and ModCloth works in the USA, so shipping to Canada is less than ideal. I bought a skirt and a handtowel, coming out to about 100$ after tax, in US dollars, so that meant I had to pay the bank's exchange rate + a 2.5% credit card fee for the foreign currency. Then, the shipping, the shipping! The shipping base rate was around 20$ (I can't remember exactly), and then the customs ! The customs fee was another 20-30$. So the whole thing cost me an arm, and it is a major source of lost money. See, if I lived in the USA, I'd be able to get free return shipping, and if the total cost is above a certain amount, free shipping to your house as well!
I love ModCloth, since they have so many 40s and 50s style dresses (as well as other eras), but this is a style I seriously love, I almost wish I lived in that era with the dresses and the music (but at the same time, I'm happy I live in this era, where I am able to work and have an independent life, independent on the income of a man, for example). They have so many cool and quirky styles and objects, and so many pretty dresses, I want so many items.
So I think you now understand why this deal here is a total tease +100.
2. Indigo Chapters Home : Pumpkin-shaped Soup Tureen
So not only is this soup tureen super awesome, because let's be honest, it could be used for Halloween including for Halloween candy, but also for soup, which is useful when you are serving soup to the table, but also for whatever else you may want to serve during the fall when you invite some people over.
But no, that's not all. Now, it's on SALE!!! And now I also want a little soup bowl, which is similar, but yes smaller, which I could use for Halloween candy! I could have a Halloween or "Friendsgiving" party, and have these bowls out and I'd be such an awesome host! And they won't have this next year, so I must have it this year! No, there will never me fall or Halloween decorations sold at Indigo ever again! Hahaha
I actually already have a couple soup bowls, about the size of onion soup bowls, in the shape of pumpkins and they are orange! with a handle, like a mug, but also a cover, like a pumpkin, so they are cool. And for this reason, I am telling myself I do not need another pumpkin shaped dish. (but I do!)
But these thoughts are exactly why I am trying not to spend this year. What is this dependence on "new products" that I am experiencing?!? Something i want to eliminate from my emotions list. I mean, other than the occasional treat of course, but I will have to wait until July 2016 for that! (or find other ways to treat myself)
3. DavidsTea sales and promotions
DavidsTea is my greatest enemy at this time. It is the thing that I own the most of and the thing that I need to cut back on purchasing the most. Sure it's a consumable product, but I buy it at a higher rate than I consume it, and that's become overwhelming, as in it takes too much space in my cupboards. Space I could use for more useful kitchen tools.
Here's the latest and greatest:
I actually was able to resist the end-of-summer 40% off sale, I am so surprised and at the same time proud of myself for resisting. I would check the specials regularly, and calculate which tea products were worth more bang for the buck, and then I even made a shopping list for myself (several times). I filled then emptied my "cart" many times. The thing I hate about DavidsTea's website, that the cart get's emptied if you close the window (unlike Indigo), has become a good thing, because I'd refill the cart many times, and realized how I really didn't need these items. Even though I really really wanted them!
So this special, you only need to buy 50$ of stuff (normally it's like 75$) and you get a 20$ gift! So nice! I'm always this close to giving up my challenge just so that I could have a candle that smells like crisp apples! But then again, I could actually eat a crisp apple, or make apple crisp! (haha!) Or better yet, sniff the pumpkin candle I do own!
I'm always this close to breaking my rule to have some extra Pumpkin Chai in my cupboard. It's my favorite tea.... Can I make an exception? The reason I'm wavering is that I have about 8 teacups worth left of that tea. Is that enough? That is the question!
So that's my list. I hope I can be able to resist further! Wish me luck!
Happy K
