Rationalizing 101

The human brain is an enigma. Especially a woman’s. Even more especially, mine. The way I rationalize things is seriously one inch from insanity. Example 1: When I was trying to lose weight, I used to say to myself, well you can have that piece of chocolate because tomorrow you will go to the gym and work it off. Then my brain would say, but... If you didn’t eat that piece of chocolate, when you’re at the gym tomorrow, you’d be working something else stupid that you ate yesterday off. It was like a strange form of playing guilty catch up. Somehow I let myself tell myself these things.

So I may or may not have just come into about $1500. I kinda feel guilty bringing it up since lots of people have or are losing their jobs recently, but I work hard and like to tell myself I earned it (example 2). This is the first year that I hadn’t been steadily compiling a list for months of entirely ridiculous overpriced garbage that I coveted and planned to buy with my holiday bonus. I honestly didn’t think I’d be getting one this year and rather than be disappointed that I couldn’t own the oh so essential $195 Burberry rubber rain boots, I decided to just be happy with the things I do own that I bought within my means. However now, I am ill prepared to deal with the $1500 burning a hole in my pocket. I have no list. Now is when my brain explodes! What completely pointless overpriced thing can I get!?!!

The googling begins. Do I want overpriced shoes? A television? Ridiculous amounts of clothing? A bag? Ahhh sigh, there’s that Louis Vuitton I half covet. $700. And here comes the hilarious rationalizing. I would rather die than spend that much of my own money on a purse. But in the scheme of having a $1500 gift card... $700 isn’t even HALF!! I am so frugal!!...