We fight it, we argue against it, we try hard to be rational about it... We resist temptation...
But we do it anyway...We all love it... At the end of a work day, on a lazy Sunday afternoon, when we are depressed, when we feel up, if we need something and even if we don't need anything.
You don't have to be a shopaholic to love shopping. Shopping is therapeutic, it is called "Retail Therapy" after all! If you don't believe in Retail Therapy, here are 10 reasons to convince you to think otherwise:
#10 - Free Stuff
Let's start with the obvious, we all love free stuff. Where else do we have people following us around to give us free samplers? Even when we don't want to spend a penny, the good stuff is always free. You can sit in Landmark & read for hours or listen to the latest tunes at Music World or have a MAC professional work wonders on your eyes.
Hitting the gym may not be our strong suit but moving from window to window and staring at retail temptation is definitely a work out. It gets your lazy a** off the couch and keeps you moving for hours. So, men, please stop complaining. Walk your girlfriends around & carry their bags. It is definitely a rewarding work-out. ;)
#8 - Motivates You To Lose weight
Shopping can be a rude intervention when you suddenly realize that you no longer fit in to your old size or when you see an amazing dress that is so you but fits someone 5 Kgs lesser. That moment of truth in the trial room is the only time you FEEL that you need to lose weight from deep within. At all other times, it is just in your head as one among many things to do in your hectic life.
#7 - Gives You New News
The average person receives about 63,000 words of information in a day or roughly 5000 ads. But our brain is in a constant state of shutting out all the unnecessary information out of your head. Shopping is the time you let this guard down, you soak in the new sites and information. Because after all everyone is curious to know just what reconstructed jeans are or what motion control can do in a TV or how the hell can it be low-sodium salt. (Hello, Sodum Chloride!? - Na+ Cl-)
#6 - Doing the Math
Even if you don't calculate how much more you can put on each of your credit cards or how much you are saving when you have 30% discount or wondering if you could survive the rest of the month on air. Shopping counts or at least makes you count...
#5 - Making Compromises
At the end of the day, we don't always get what we wanted. Shopping teaches us that lesson too and helps us reach a compromise. One that we have the power to make & accept gracefully.
#4 - Creative Rationalization
Shopping can make your brain work overtime. You can come up with a 100 different reasons to buy something you don't need. If only we could talk ourselves into more productive things as easily!!!
#3 - Welcome Distraction
There ain't nothing like indulging in some Retail Therapy when your brain is fried and your nerves are frayed from working & thinking too much. Shopping is deeply sensorial, it takes over & helps you forget the bad and ogle at the good.
#2 - Fires your Ambitions
We all want pretty things that are bigger, faster and obscenely priced all the time. Be it the shiny metallic sheen of swanky new gadgets, the gleam of couture shoes or the rev of the engine in a convertible. Shopping is sensorial, we are not just looking or thinking, we touch, feel & smell all these temptations that sends a message deep within. "Buck up mate, get a job, get a raise, start out on your own or maybe just marry a rich guy...", it motivates you from the pit of your stomach, to do more, get more so you can buy more and be more.
#1 - Ego Boost
We can be ignored, ill-treated & insignificant at work but at Retail Paradise we are KING! With the power to summon & dismiss sales people as you seem fit. Make queer requests and watch them scamper to have it fulfilled. The only place you can get all the info & items you want at a command without having to do any work. Now, if that ain't a tempting offer after that bashful meeting with your boss, I don't know what is.
So go ahead, stop resisting temptation and just give in. Indulge in Retail Therapy, it does wonders beyond the obvious.
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