The Floating Head!

I think everyone is addicted to something either drugs, alcohol, gaming, facebook or any multiple things. It took me a long time to realize it, just like most addicts. We do not know we are addicts for years and sometimes never realize it. Until you do and you truly want to beat this addiction you will never be able to beat it. So, my name is Christina and I am a shopper addict!

My aha moment, as Oprah puts it, is one day when I went into Target to buy a CD that was on sale for $9.98, then walked out with over $200 worth of items that were mostly on clearence (nothing I really needed, mostly just in case items "you never know I could find a use for this"). People in my life had been amazed at the way I would shop and use to tell me that I had a problem...mostly my parents, my husband and my business partner. I use to think "no way could you be addicted to shopping", you can only be addicted to sex, drugs and alcohol because they had doctors and groups that help them out. Knowing is half the battle and I work hard everyday to beat this addiction. It has been hard but what has really helped is my floating head!

You must be asking, "Whose head is it?" Well in my head it is like the Oz in the movie the Wizard of Oz, but not so green and scary and more of my business partner's head. When I am shopping for anything and I mean anything, she seems to appear telling me, "Do you really need that, can you do without that, how many do you need of this or do you really have the money for this right now?".

She did not realize that I did that until a couple days ago. I had been buying supplies at Office Max for the office and found her head asking me, "Do you need the heavy duty, more expensive sheet protectors or the less cheaper ones for our paper?". I bought the cheaper one then off to Target and I found a white Christmas tree for our office decor next year at 50% off. I heard the head talking say,"$124 is still not a deal, you can finally get a cheaper one if you hold out". I have really wanted to have a white tree for the last 2 years so I hoped if I talked to her she would overrule the floating head. You guessed it she said, "I thought you were gonna say it was like 60 bucks, no maybe if you wait for the after Christmas sale." The floating head is really in sync with it's original.

So if you might see me out there shopping, just know the reason why I look so intense when I am looking at a item I want to buy....the floating head is conversing with me!