There's something strange happening in the world of work and shopping. I'm not sure if it's just me, but i find that now that I am working, I spend half as much time shopping and thinking about shopping as I did when I was in uni.

Back then, I could easily have spent enormous amounts a pop and be extremely gleeful about how fabulous my purchases are (even though inside, I know I might never wear it). I would go shopping about 3-4 times a week (Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday were mine and Jess' designated shopping days), and in between that time, I could've easily ordered a million things from online stores, browse at new catalogues and dream about what my next purchase would be.

When I first started working, I would treat myself to either a designer bag, electronics, furniture etc with my paypacket. Nowadays however, I don't. I dont know if it's because

... the amount of time that I actually have for shopping includes 1 hour during lunch, half an hour after work, a few hours on late night shopping and well, dont even think about the weekend cause im too lazy to devote shopping time to that especially after a week busting my ass at work

... or perhaps it might be the fact that I actually know how much I have to work to earn that money and therefore know the work/clothing value

... or perhaps it might be that I don't have any time to really wear any of the clothes i love? No longer can I make an excuse to have more two hands work of jeans, sneakers, ballet flats etc... nope! Now it it all formal wear, blouses, pencil skirts, smart looking pointies.. sigh.

A year ago, I would've been devastated at my lack of shopping and lack of new clothes/shoes procurement.. But now, I think i'm at a stage where I just buy things maybe once a week (maybe a few things at once), but really think about what i'm buying rather than "don't worry, i'll sell it on ebay!".. hehe