Welcome back to another week of the awesome Random Thursday linkup with Lin, Meg and I! I wanted to say thanks to all of you guys who link up with us every week. I may not always find time to comment on every single link up - but I read them all and can't tell you how much it means to all three of us that you guys keep coming back. You like us! You really like us! Ahem. Anyway, that's enough emotion. Time for this week's topic:
Oh dear. Another one I could riff on for awhile. But I'm gonna try to keep it short.
1. Books
This is probably my oldest love. I remember saving up my allowance back when I got a dollar a week until I could buy books. (yeah, I remember when a dollar was worth something. I'm old.) My house is full of them, they're stacked on to of shelves, some shelves have two rows and I'm not even near having read them all - but I can't help splurging on them. There's just something magical about them.
2. Starbucks
Oh, lord. I know it's a rip off. I know it's not healthy. But goddamn it if I don't go every week. Usually more than once.
3. Cosmetics (obvs)
Well, this one you might have guessed. Currently it's skincare, but makeup - well, it's impossible to resist for long. I remember reading somewhere that during economically and socially difficult times in society lipstick sales soar. The theory being that they're not too expensive, so it was a justifiable way for women to treat themselves, and because they could wear it every day, it was a visible pick-me-up. At least, that's how I think it went. Makes sense to me. Also probably why I have so many - I tend to pick one up whenever I'm having a particularly terrible week! Hmmmm. Therapy would probably be cheaper.
4. Stationery
Like books, notebooks and pens are magical - hell, back in the day, that is where books were created. I am partial to Moleskine and my trusty fountain pen, but I do have a stack of unused notebooks of all varieties, shapes and sizes.
Alright, that's enough outta me. Your turn! Link up below:
Books are always a justifiable splurge, in my opinion!!
ReplyDeleteAnd justify them I do!
DeleteI have so many books, I can't even count them anymore. I am pretty sure that my house looks like yours! :) And I have heard the thing about lipstick too. It totally makes sense.
ReplyDeleteI stopped even trying to estimate quite some time ago. I have so many I swear they multiply when my back is turned!
DeleteBooks = yes! One of my favorite splurges.
ReplyDeleteI tend to feel like they're friends more than paper, ink and glue. I love the potential of the different world that exists in those pages. Unfortunately, I often get seduced away by a new "world" before finishing the old one, so I've got a ton of half-read books! I'll read them some day. Really I will. But first, just this one new book I read a review of.... ;)
DeleteBooks used to be on my list of splurge, now with my kindle I go for e-books, unless it's cooking books, then that's a different story!
ReplyDeleteSee, I have a Nook, but I still buy the real thing. I love the Nook for travel and taking on the bus with me - and for books I know I'll never re-read - but if I really love a book, I just *have* to have a "real" version! So really it just created a whole new addiction without actually resolving the old one. *sigh*
Delete1. Just proves you were a bookworm from the start. Oh I'm sorry, an awesome fucking bookworm ;)
ReplyDelete2. Yumm! Please dont disown me but I just realized I havent been to Sbux in months. Eek, this must be rectified asap.
3. We need to save up money & go back to Vegas. We can spend all day going from Starbucks to Sephora to that one fabulous Waffle place :)
There are photos of me hugging a book when I was three, and more of me turning the pages on the book I leaned against the fish tank for the fish to read if they got bored when I was four. It's a long-lasting addiction! I wish I hadn't been in that long. I went yesterday. When I win the lottery, you can bet your ass that's exactly what we'll be doing. We'll just live at the Venetian for awhile.
DeleteI always forget notebooks!
ReplyDeletealso. next time you head east, bring that makeup collection with you please!
Hard for me to forget.... I have a shelf of them next to my desk! I would, except there's no way I'd be able to carry it!!!! Yep, it's that ridiculous. ;)
DeleteI will splurge on Starbucks too but I always bank on Starbucks gift cards to support my habit because my damn drink costs me $3.83.
ReplyDeleteOh my word, yes - I splurge on coffee all the time. We have a coffee chain in our building (similar to Starbucks) and I cannot resist my morning Americano. It's £1.50. Every day. And I don't need it ... but I do.
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