Designer Handbags - can not live without him? You like designer handbags. You collect them, lust after them and treat them better than your family and until your husband or your boyfriend begins to complain. Is that sound familiar?
Your credit cards and contraction flinched when the latest fashion magazines arrive in the mail, whining little sounds you gently run your handbag.
You convince yourself that you can withdraw it at any time, no problem.
"This is not a problem," you tell your friends "I can control it."
Then you find yourself signing your husband to work at night without his knowledge, visions of the latest creation Hyanuki shimmering in your eyes that you complete the application form.
Are you an addict? Is your habit becoming dangerous? It will all end in tears?
Well, if one of the following symptoms are familiar to you - perhaps you should consider cutting for a while to a lesser brand!
1) You hear the terms "blowing", "shluffing" and "blopping" and know what they mean. Worse yet, you can remember the last time you did one of them.
2) The UPS / FEDEX delivery men know you by your first name and say "Hi" to you in the street.
3) Your husband is convinced that you are having an affair with the driver because he is always at your house!
4) The "box" room has been renamed your "dressing" and you try to work on that wall down to make it bigger so you can hold in the new cabinets you need for your bags .
5) Your husband tells you how the cards are damaged and how you'll both have to make savings. All you hear is "Of course, you can get another handbag darling. You choose what you want and I'll arrange to sell a kidney!"
6) We must find new places to hide your latest purchases so that you do not have to answer any tough questions.
7) When you're asked about a new bag you lie to your tooth, arguing that you had it for years and only came out of the closet.
8) You start arguments on purpose with your husband / partner / whatever just to have an excuse to buy yourself a new handbag - to cheer you up that you felt so low!
9) You know exactly how much, in percentage, your weekly grocery bill is that the money you can not switch on a new handbag.
10) If someone asks what you want as a birthday or Christmas release, you are able to provide a list of your bags want you want to be "surprised" with. The list is sorted by 17 different topics and is indexed-cons.
11) The manager of your local phone shop to tell you they are holding a training session for new employees can they please borrow some of your bags for the session.
12) Then they phone again and ask if you are willing to give the training session instead.
13) fashion magazines phone to ask what you think of the new trend or design will be for the new season.
14) Your collection is so great - you must use a file to find the bag you need now!
15) You pass a field of cows and spend the next thirty minutes of work in your head how many bags and trim would be good for the herd.
If any of these strikes that you just a little too close for comfort - perhaps you should consider cutting down a little?
Just do not try to go cold turkey - it hurts like hell!
Posted on May 29, 2010.