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I'm having a bad day, and all of a sudden I feel this intense need to do some online shopping. Surely there must be some curriculum or furniture we need, right?? (that link to the ikea table recently posted got me started! )
Somebody talk me down off this ledge! 
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Amy...step away from the "check-out" button.
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O.K. hon, step S-L-O-W-L-Y away from the mouse, hands in the air, breathe in through the nose, exhale slowly through the mouth. Now, take a step back, away from the computer, now another, and then another. Chant softly to self, "Buying something new will not make my children obey promptly/my homeschool year go any easier/my house get any cleaner/contribute to my mental well-being."
Feel better? I know I do!!!
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LOL. Go to the library instead, and get some books and books on tape for the kids.
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I remember Maryan posted a long time ago about filling her carts up at all sorts of online places...but she didn't go through with it.
It is fun to fill them up...I agree!
Look at it like food...we think it'll taste great and make us feel better...it definitely feels better and then that full tummy feeling later ruins what was a feeling better thing!
So maybe if you fill the carts...but have enough will power to NOT actually enter the cc#, then you'll enjoy the taste but not the full tummy later?!?!
Did that make sense? Probably didn't help...but you can tell how I rationalize a lot of what I do
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Oh yeah... Amy as Kacky said I FILLED up my carts with tons of books (after our local curriculum share!) (Half the books were Kacky's suggestions.) We are talking HUNDREDS of dollars. 
I was SOoooo glad when my dh came home that all those books were in carts and were never "checked out!!"
Hey... and Amazon has wishlists!! Maybe you can just click away into a wishlist!!
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AHA! The wishlist is perfect...I love that thing!
It's huge for me! But it's great fun too! It's almost like a journal. I love to scroll ALL the way down and see what crazy things I had thought of buying...I don't know how many times I have wondered why I ever thought I wanted it!
And Maryan, am I being implicated in your imaginary spending spree??!!
That's okay...after my visit with Maryan recently, I made some purchases inspired by her too!!!
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Get out and go get ice cream cones with the girls. Lots cheaper and makes you feel just as good!
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Oh Amy... AND it would fulfill your calcium requirement in your 9th month!! I like that suggestion Theresa!!
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My Dh says one would feel just as good going for a nice run! Sorry, excercise doesn't do it for me...I like food or shopping. Both bad choices.
Now I play 3 games of computer solitare. (that's how many it takes me to "win" and yes I use the back button! )
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yep...I'm votin' for the wish lists! Just as satisfying, in most cases!
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Go to eddiebaueroutlet.com and try to buy something. They always have lots on "display" but it always ends up being sold out when you try to actually put it in your cart. Then you don't even deal with the temptation of a full shopping cart.
Amazon wishlists are great, too. But if you have one click shopping set up, it might be too easy to succumb.
And I really second the ice cream thing, too!
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LOL Susan - shopping where everything is sold out is probably my best bet! Less true temptation that way.
I think this is cheating, but I was saved by the UPS man showing up at my door today! A heavy box full of new math curriculum and manipulatives that I didn't think would show up for awhile. 
Since my kids can't all have ice cream, I think I'll save THAT little treat for myself (to celebrate) and dh (to mourn how much money the curriculum cost ) tonight! I need my calcium, you know.
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Chant softly to self, "Buying something new will not make my children obey promptly/my homeschool year go any easier/my house get any cleaner/contribute to my mental well-being."
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Mary, I have to write this on my fridge! :)
Thank you so much, ladies, for humoring me today, I really needed it!
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I live on this ledge! There is just something so productive about ordering something. And some days it seems nothing else around here is productive at all.
Wish lists are good, definitely. Make your Christmas wish lists. That usually keeps me busy for weeks, especially now that I am being extra vigilant about not buying Chinese.
You are in good company, you are strong, you can resist.
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Amy -- you're a better woman than me -- I'd have succumbed and not told anyone !
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teachingmyown wrote:
There is just something so productive about ordering something. And some days it seems nothing else around here is productive at all.
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Thank you, Molly for explaining something I could never quite put my finger on!!!! That's it, isn't it? Click, click...and it's done. Even though NOTHING ELSE was that day!
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Oh! I know EXACTLY how you feel, Amy! The thrill of clicking, the anticipation of a PACKAGE coming to the door with something that was so simple to order! My kids have a chant that they say with me "Mommy got a Pack-age, Mommy got a PACK-age!" How exciting!
.....oh dear. I don't think I am helping. 
Yes, I agree on the ice cream. Or, as I have learned, Chocolate releases the SAME endorphines that EXERCISING does! So, I think I would go that route next! Brownie Sundae, anyone?? Maryan? 
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And a something ordered, but not in our hands yet, is still a perfect pristine notion, just like the wonderful reviews it got from wherever we saw it suggested...amazon.com is like a little escape into a make-believe world for me, full of beautiful books that will make the whole world right...a perfect, virtual world, just a click away...aahhhh, it feels so good to go there!
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humanaevitae wrote:
Now I play 3 games of computer solitare. (that's how many it takes me to "win" and yes I use the back button! ) |
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Wait, how sad,
I never knew there was a back button
As for the jogging thing, is'nt your dh a doctor? Leave it to them to be reasonable
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Oh, wow, can I relate to this thread!
Of course, for me "shopping therapy" is more fun in real life than online, 'cause I hate to use the credit card and I'm such a bargain shopper that I hate to have to give the store anywhere from $7 up for shipping....
Sometimes in this mood I'll go with my family to our favorite "antique" store which is more like a slightly better-than-average junk store. We can spend $20 and get some books or some trinkets (one lady has a $3 jewelry booth) or some interesting/useful things, like the potato bin my DH picked up for me once when he stopped in on a workday. All the "therapy" at a fraction of the cost!
(And this one booth has vintage school books...) 
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