What do you want to buy that you have zero need for?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a middle-aged lady. I bought myself a Squishmallow that I first saw at the grocery store. because it makes me laugh so hard. It's a green moose that completely inverts to become a stuffed peppermint. I passed it up multiple times but couldn't stop thinking about it.

There's an avocado that transforms into a bowl of guacamole. I have my eye on that.

This made me smile. Enjoy your squishmallow!

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New glasses! I go to the eye doctor in a few weeks and I’m 99% sure my prescription won’t change. I wear my contacts most of the time so my glasses are in great shape, even though they’re a few years old. Even so, I have my eye on a pair at Warby Parker…

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Anonymous wrote:A Clash de Cartier necklace. I can afford it, but don’t need it and feel guilty with frivolous spending like this.

Couldn’t bear to write that one without pointing out that you could afford it, huh?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a middle-aged lady. I bought myself a Squishmallow that I first saw at the grocery store. because it makes me laugh so hard. It's a green moose that completely inverts to become a stuffed peppermint. I passed it up multiple times but couldn't stop thinking about it.

There's an avocado that transforms into a bowl of guacamole. I have my eye on that.

This made me smile. Enjoy your squishmallow!

Same 😊

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Anonymous wrote:This is a sad one.

I had a not-so-great mother, who liked to deprive me of things we could easily have paid for. When I went to college, she didn't buy me anything, and I bought my own twin sheets with the money I made from my job and I didn't know to get twin xl and so they didn't fit. So I had sheets that I just had to lay on even though they literally didn't attach to the bed at the bottom. My duvet thing didn't fit either. My roommate complained that the room didn't look good because of it.

Pottery Barn Teen has a dorm room supplies build-your-bed feature, and I can spend hours choosing various Love Shack Fancy sheet, duvet, throw, and throw pillow combos.

I'm so sorry that happened to you. You deserved a mom who would lovingly pick out and purchase the things you needed to make your college dorm room a home.

+1

And hugs from this mom. If you’re okay with hugs. I want to buy you sheets right now.

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Anything from Serena & Lily. I would like to do a whole S&L room. But I have nice enough furniture already.

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More yarn.

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Anonymous wrote:For me, it's stationery. I have nobody to write to though. So I kill time happily looking on Amazon and Etsy and Crane at stationery I'd like - this one for letters, that one for thank you notes, etc. I pick out different types for different moods I might be in, different types of people I'd send notes to (elderly aunt vs. my many famous friends vs. my more artsy famous friends vs. stationery that would be solely for one friend bc it'd make them laugh, etc.).

Your turn?

Write cheery notes using your pretty stationery and drop them at the front desk of a nursing home. There are always very nice people at the desks and ask them to offer them to the residents as they stop to chat (as they are wont to do). Just a cheery: "Hello, I hope you are doing well today and sending a little cheer your way." Sign them with your name or not. It might be the happiest thing that happens to them.

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A star projector for the bedroom. My tween son has one and it’s so cool. DH does not want one for our bedroom, alas.

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Anonymous wrote:Cashmere sweaters. I can't enough of them but I also have zero need at this point.

Same here!! They are so soft and cozy though!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For me, it's stationery. I have nobody to write to though. So I kill time happily looking on Amazon and Etsy and Crane at stationery I'd like - this one for letters, that one for thank you notes, etc. I pick out different types for different moods I might be in, different types of people I'd send notes to (elderly aunt vs. my many famous friends vs. my more artsy famous friends vs. stationery that would be solely for one friend bc it'd make them laugh, etc.).

Your turn?

Write cheery notes using your pretty stationery and drop them at the front desk of a nursing home. There are always very nice people at the desks and ask them to offer them to the residents as they stop to chat (as they are wont to do). Just a cheery: "Hello, I hope you are doing well today and sending a little cheer your way." Sign them with your name or not. It might be the happiest thing that happens to them.

Unfortunately (for these purposes) the only nursing home near me has all Chinese residents and having run into them at the grocery store near us and on the street I am confident they do not speak/read English. Never mind that that is not my way. I need to know someone before I hope they're doing well. Maybe they're Maga, or they kick dogs. Then I hope birds crap on their head while they're crapping their pants in public, you know?

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I just bought ubereats. Have a fridge full of cooked food. Wasn’t feeling it.

I also have a massive kindle library so my husband doesn’t know how much I spend on books.

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The kitchen tool that breaks up ground beef in the pan. I can do the same thing with a spatula but it looks easier with that tool. But the last thing I need is an additional thing in my drawer.

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A new master bath. Our current one is fine. There is zero chance we’re going to spend the money to redo it. But I’d love to tear it all out and start over.

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Anonymous wrote:A star projector for the bedroom. My tween son has one and it’s so cool. DH does not want one for our bedroom, alas.

Do you have a closet big enough for a yoga/pilates matt? I foresee some wonder in your future.