Stop spending so much money online shopping

Yeah there’s a better range and better prices but I’m never in when they deliver which means I have to travel miles to pick up parcels from the depot. Life is too short.

Minor DVD binge on Amazon last night. I’m such a sucker for deals. Well, it did say 70% off…

Aargh. Why is it that whenever I make a conscious effort to stop spending something breaks or goes wrong or needs replaced? Perhaps it’s my subconscious urge to spend manifesting itself telekinetically. I’ve seen Carrie; I know how these things work!

Well, anyway, the bathroom scales are kaput. Either that or I should be believing that I’ve miraculously lost 11 pounds overnight (and I really did try to believe it too). So I may have deviated a little from this goal by browsing for new scales online. My twisted logic assures me that so long as I’m spending I may as well spend a small fortune and invest in a fancy body-fat, muscle-mass, BMI-type device. There are some affordable options out there but too many of them come with a scary-sounding “bone mass” measurement option. I’m sorry, but there are some things that I just do not want to know. Particularly as over the age of 20 there’s not much you can do to add to peak bone mass. What if I stand on the scale and am rudely informed that I have all the skeletal mass of a loofah? What then? Pre-emptive hip replacement? A bionic leg (or two)?

Hmm. On second thoughts maybe I’ll just pick up that cheap mechanical set of scales I saw in the supermarket the other day…