Every time you see a woman looking frantic and pre-occupied, who jumps even at a small tap on her shoulder… you know that she’s received her credit card bill that morning! And that her jumpiness is the aftereffect of the scary event that occurred that morning -- that yellow/white envelope staring at her from within the other silly looking/not so important envelopes with the word “URGENT” written in bright red next to her name… And now she’s probably working at a plot to hide it from her husband/parents and wondering if her salary for that month would be enough to pay off the bill or which ex-boyfriend/friend who had a crush on her she could sweet-talk into paying off the bill.
Every time I go through my credit card bill; I trick myself into believing that the bank is cheating me! And that I could never have spent so much money on shoes, visits to salons, (err…umm.. how many times did I get my haircut this month!?), clothes! I clearly remember I haven’t spent a dime on clothes this month.
2000/- for shoes! Oh well… those were such beautiful red pumps. Glossy and shiny… simply couldn’t resist…
2300/- pair of jeans… Levis is expensive...
3500/- in a spa! A SPA! hmmmph….
1500/- snakeskin purse – it is so adorable and elegant and shiny and it matches with the new red shoes!!!
1479/- stationery – the cute little butterfly pins, the diaries with dates… ofcourse they’re essential stationary is always useful… and its even better when all the pens, pencils, pins match… could take a new colour coded one to work.. that is always an investment
$$$$$$/*- on six silk sarees… although one by two suggested I don’t wear sarees, but he doesn’t understand silk sarees is always an investment. Plus I was getting one free with two sarees… I could pass those on to my children!
$$$$$/- for the beautiful aquamarine bracelet, it was a snip! The sales person said its studded in real silver… silver is so expensive! Hmmmp… the texture has become scaly lately, like the polish has come off.. hmmmph!
$$$$$/- (gasp) for! FOR!!
Hang on a sec! this cannot be… I did not go to the Marks n Spencer’s! I don’t have anything from Marks and Spencer’s…
I’m going to call the bank right now! This is appalling… these people trick us into believing we are not thrifty! I would finally be able to convince one by two I’m thrifty because I carefully go through my statements.. Ahahaha!
Now wait a second…. I do remember going to marks and spencer’s… we bought a shirt for a colleague… for his birthday! And everyone paid me cash… I decided to keep the cash and use the card instead… cash is always so handy…. Oh My God! Where did I spend so much cash!?
$$$$$/- Bath and body works – Oh yes! I remember this one… they had the most beautifully smelling soaps. I picked up 15! It was a bargain… although the smell gives me a headache… but then soaps are always useful… you can tell a lot about a person from the kind of soap he/she uses. Plus they make such good decorative pieces in the bathroom.
I thought I will have a lot of explaining of to do this time. Oh god! The statement needs to disappear… how can I make it disappear!?
1- Hide it under the mattress? But one by two found it last time, it fell off
2- Throw it away in the garbage? Hmmm, he might find it there also
3- Aha! Just the right thing to do! I’ll drop it at the construction site near office. It’ll be buried under cement forever! And I can always claim that we never received it!
Dropping the statement actually helped! By then I’d paid off the bills! But then I couldn’t stop myself from splurging a little again. So it was the same story again! Sometimes I cannot help it... the smell of new leather, new clothes, the lights in the shops, the thrill and excitement of acquiring beautiful, shiny new artifacts! And I’m back to the shops…
*too exorbitant to be disclosed
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