Wed, 16 Sep 2009 1:22p.m.
There is nothing like going to the Home Show to make you realise just how much you don’t have.
Personally I think we’re doing rather well- we’ve managed to collect our way up from a teeny tiny apartment -that at first we struggled to even fill- to an entire 3 bedroom house full, in only a matter of years. Comparatively speaking for our age and wage we’ve done pretty well for ourselves, sitting pretty even.
But enter through those white tented doors and it’s like taking a memory loss pill or being zapped by the Men in Black, everything you have at home disappears from your mind and all you can see is everything you don’t have.
Everything you could ever dream of to do with your garden, house and contents, everything you could ever need and a whole load of stuff that you will probably never need. It’s like real live infomercials and I just happen to be a marketers dream. Offer me anything even merely exciting and I have already thought of 3 justifiable reasons why I need it.
So for me the Home show is like candy land, only this time I was shackled. You see my darling FH knows all about me and my ‘shopping tendencies’. He knows that once I have an idea for something it sticks and I happen to be veeeery good at making him believe we need it too… most of the time.
This time he went in prepared.
“Today I want to take you to the home show- but only if you promise not to want anything.” See he got clever… now he’s using preventative methods!
It wasn’t that I wasn’t allowed to buy anything, ohhh no. He’s cutting this tap off at the source. NO WANTING.
Now how do you think that went?? Oddly enough with my lack of wanting (or should I say quiet internal wanting) FH stepped up to take my place and went on the hunt for Double Glazing, Foldaway beds, Induction Hobs, Home Ventilation Units, outdoor pizza ovens and more!
But by the end of the day all my suppressed want reared its head and I fell in love with probably the single most expensive item there… (see what bottling things up does!? Backfires big time)
The $27,000 12 seater spa, with inbuilt 42” LCD TV and DVD player. Show special of $20,000!
God how I want. We wouldn’t even need our house anymore we could just live in there!
But we were strong; we walked away with nothing but flyers, dreams and the realisation that we could very well have all of this… or our wedding.
But hey we’re young we’ve got years and years or more want left in us ;)