"My name is D-Booth and I'm an addict"

This is where you would say: "Hi D-Booth"

Yeah, so I have a problem... one of many, you might say. Anyway, I figured who better to come clean with than my nonexistent cyber pals.

One problem with trying to conceive a mini-me at this point in my life is that I'm OLD - at least in baby-making years. I'm 37 and a half (when did we become too old to use the half?!) and I've had a job for more than half of my life. Long story short, that means that I've been able to buy most of the [less expensive] things that I've wanted. Not having kids has afforded me the opportunity to splurge on myself every now and then. If/when Baby B comes along, I realize that will have to change... yet another thing that I'm not really sure that I'm ready to handle.

Shopping is my vice - especially a good sale - that's my thing. I LOVE finding an awesome sale and then being like, "I just got this awesome shirt on sale for $4.97 - isn't it cute?!" (that actually just happened to me last week). love, Love, LOVE to shop! But for the greater good - and in preparation of Baby B - I've decided to quit cold turkey... for ONE month, that is. We'll see how things go and make a judgement call from there.

So let the record show that during the month of August I will not buy:

• Clothes (up to and including underwear)
• Shoes
• Hats
• Jewelry
• Purses
• Perfumes
• New technologies (including any electronics and Wii games)

This will NOT include:

• Gifts for others
• Groceries
• Groupons and/or LivingSocial deals... or items gotten as a result of previously purchased Groupons/LivingSocial deals
• Items ruled an absolute necessity
• Books

This may not seem like that big of a feat, but if I were to post a picture of my stack of receipts from the last month, you would see just how serious this is. I mean, I'm no Rebecca Bloomwood (come on - read a book already), but cutting back wouldn't be the worse thing.

Well, wish me luck. In an effort to keep myself honest, I'll be posting my successes - and failures - regularly. Gotta run, only 9 more shopping days 'til this thing takes affect!

** Note: You can follow my efforts to curb my love of shopping by clicking on the page entitled "Operation 'Stop Shop!'" right below the blog title **