20 days this time…my posting frequency is getting marginally better.

Well, so I’ve committed the #1 sin of personal finance bloggers, and no, I didn’t lie about my income or numbers. I spent unnecessary money on 2 luxury items, namely a leather ($164) and a terry ($116) Juicy Couture handbag, both from Nordstrom’s half yearly sale. I’ve never bought anything as expensive as each of these bags. This would be a textbook case of how the internet can poison your mind. I’ve been frequenting a lot of fashion and shopping sites lately, as a substitute for more worthwhile endeavors I suppose, and have been spending some time over at thepurseforum.com, the most shallowest, superficial forum that I’ve ever been to. Literally, the only two types of comments that you will see following a post is: 1.) “that is beautiful” and 2.) “i want that”.  Oh, and the only other topic of marginal amusement usually involves a self-righteous and astonishingly myopic discussion of why fake bags are the “scourge of the earth”…never mind that there is plenty of worse crimes out there in the big wide world (namely, unnecessary war, genocide, political deceit, etc…).

And yet, somehow I’m pulled in…all of the silly designer handbags with their names and classifications, sort of like how I used to have to memorize latin names of organisms in biology class. And then, the fun part is going out “into the wild,” and actually observing and naming certain bags that will literally just walk by you. Sigh. What depravity I’ve gotten myself into.

And so, I am putting myself on a self-imposed “bag ban” (as it is said) for the rest of the summer, because I can only see a downhill spiral from this kind of behavior if it’s not stopped in time…not to mention the fantastic levels of expense that will come from submitting a primary AMCAS application…