I just spent way too much money on eBay. I’m looking at my PayPal account activity for the last 3 hours and I’m starting to feel woozy. How can one person buy so much…crap?
Well, it’s not exactly crap. I was still feeling blue, so I decided to cruise eBay for Twin Peaks stuff. For festival prizes…nothing more. No. Really.
And then I went apeshit. I saw a really cool Killer BOB t-shirt, clicked “Buy It Now”…and then I blacked out. And when I came to, I’d spent $300. On random Twin Peaks crap. That isn’t even for me! ARGH!
Now I feel like I need to go out and buy the Portishead Live album and a copy of the special edition Empire Records DVD to clease myself. Both of which I’ve been wanting pretty badly but have held off on purchasing until the time was right. Methinks that time is now.
I’m not exactly sure why shopping on eBay is so cathartic when I’m bummed. It’s bizarre. Especially now that they have the “Buy It Now!” option on there and I can be even more dangerous with instant purchases. Talk about a gateway drug for impulse shoppers. That’s how I’ve ended up with the ninety rolled posters I have in various stacks of cardboard poster tubes in the corner of my bedroom. I don’t even think there’s enough wall in my entire house to hold all the posters I’ve bought. And posters are so cheap and easy. They’re like the pot of eBay purchases. And if I don’t log off right after a purchase, I end up searching until I find the motherlode…the hypodermic of heroin in my shopper’s vein. And then bam! I’m broke, hallucinating, chewing on caramels and clutching my $180 Twin Peaks sheriff’s mug…
I think what I need is a break from the internet before I get even more bummed and wake up one morning to find that I’ve purchased a hooker from Argentina.
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