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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m really weird about having one extra of everything and it caused me a lot of problems during/after the worst of the pandemic. We were sometimes broke but my mom was all about appearances so weirdly stingy about stinting on stuff for me so she could have certain furniture visible or certain things to wear to work. Once she had a set schedule in her mind and budget for how often something should be bought, that would be it, forever. I would use the watered down of barely-shampoo for a month. She thought that pads and tampons were too expensive and that I used too many, so she would only buy them every 3-4 months. I’m ashamed that in the days before they were available free in lots of places, I would always check cabinets at friends’ houses to steal 1-2 to put up my sweatshirt sleeve, and would steal toilet paper from public places to make makeshift pads, because my mom also monitored toilet paper use.

As an adult you would think I’d always have extras of all these things, but instead there’s a part of me that can’t seem to buy enough of them or in a timely way. I’m scrambling to get shampoo or tampons at the last minute, maybe because I’ve internalized that having enough is financially irresponsible?[/quote]

I’m so sorry. I kind of want you to go buy a bunch of boxes and just roll around in them and throw them around. I want you to have a closet full of them. And shampoo.  That must have been so hard. [/quote]

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