Right at this instant I am having a ridiculous realization: I'm officially a grown up. You know how I figured it out? I was sitting at my desk visiting random websites out of boredom and I happened upon Best Buy's 47-page Black Friday Ad.
I clicked through the first 40 pages with a disgusted, kind of bitchy voice in my head going "why do people waste money on all this crap?" and "think of all the useful things you can do with $999 instead of getting a TV" and "I wouldn't want that in my house even if it was free!" and "People give up their Thanksgiving dinner to fight each other in the store for thiiis??"
I was completely and utterly unimpressed and unexcited until I reached page 41. And then my mind went "Oh my gosh, appliances! $1,700 is such a good price for that fridge!" [Of course, there's no way I'm getting a fridge; I live in a tiny apartment and would have a nearly-impossible time getting something that big through my front door, let alone store it somewhere.]
And then, I clicked to page 45 and did a happy dance because "Oh my gosh, vacuums! I've been looking for a good deal on vacuums for so long!!"
[Seriously y'all, any (and I mean ANY) Dyson under $300 is a steal.]
And so then I took a step outside my body and looked at myself for a second. What I saw was this: I have totally moved past the "I need expensive consumer electronics to feel good about myself" stage and am now living the "I must make my nest clean and beautiful because I'm a grown-up and a plastic tote is NOT a laundry hamper" stage. So yeah, go Me!
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