PHOTO: Sephora Deluxe Sample Givenchy Play for Men
If you know anything at all about me, I am a bath and body freak. That is, I love body products. This include anything that you can apply to your body, spritz, spray, waft, or cake right on in a variety of colors. One mascara is not enough. No, no, no. 10 is about right. I have invested so much money in Sephora and beauty/body products that it is just sick. I’ll spend $80 on shampoo and conditioner, but would never purchase myself an $80 article of clothing. I’m not sure why. I like the luxury of feeling and smelling good, maybe. Or maybe they just have really good marketing.
Anyway. Kenn asked me yesterday, “do you get a rush from getting things for a good deal?” And me, well, I thought about for a minute. Yes, yes I would say that I do. I have way more than I need, so really nothing is necessarily necessary. And I’m not sure why I never feel just content with what I’ve got. There always seems to be something that I want or feel that I just have to have. I fight that urge a lot by just not going to the mall or stores that I enjoy entirely way too much. I have more clothes than I can fit into my closets and dresser. Last month, I donated 3 huge garbage bags of clothes and 2 big boxes full of even more clothes, and I still have more to give!
Part of the problem is that my weight is always fluctuating. In the summer, I am smaller, and in the winter, I put on some winter weight. It is all that good hearty food that is just YUM. And mashed potatoes — my weakness. C’mon, everybody has a food weakness!! Whats yours??
But I digress, again. So, I have been trying to be good lately. That is, not buy anything that I don’t need. That means not going to the grocery store and just eating up all the food that I already have. I have full cabinets right now, but it seems to me there is nothing that sounds good. I doing this will spark some creativity in the food department.
Back to Givenchy Play. We went to the Sephora store when Kenn was here and talked to the scary old lady at the store who I think kept hitting on Kenn, and she convinced us to try a few different colognes. Givenchy Play Intense was one of them and I really liked it! Low and behold, when I placed my order with Sephora, I had gotten enough points to get a deluxe bonus sample which was this little bottle.
The thing that I keep thinking about is that I have way more than I need. I have beau-coups of make-up and body washes and perfumes and etc. I want to throw a lot of it away. I want to make the plunge. I want to live more simply. But, why am I holding back? Why is it so difficult? It is that fear of… well, what if I need it?? When, I am sure that I won’t. I mean, I use the same things over and over again…
It is funny — the difference between my mom and I. She chucks stuff out like nobodys business. If it is in her way, TRASH. If she doesn’t want to see it anymore, TRASH. She is VERY minimal. I remember being a kid and looking for something and asking “Mom? Where is the….” And she saying, “Oh, I threw it away because I thought you never used it.” Maybe this is a weird subconscious revolt against that. Regardless, I think maybe I should go against the grain and just do it. Throw whatever I don’t use out. *cringes*
