So, a little trend I’m noticing lately… Any story that starts with, “So, I was a Hot Topic the other day and….” never has a happy ending. It’s a mentally happy ending but not a financially happy ending. I used to never go there except once for a new moon poster and a second time for a harry potter poster. Then I stopped collecting non-music posters and never went back. However, the other day…. See here it comes…. I was at the mall and hadn’t bought anything because I had bills to pay and was trying to cut back on my spending.
Usually, I’m really good at it, BUT….. we were walking by Hot Topic. I never shop there, so I don’t even know why I glanced inside, but there it was…… an entire shelf of bt21 stuff. I could hear the angelic chorus in the background. More specifically, the Koya sleep mask that was sitting in my abandoned amazon wish list at that very moment. I must have looked like a small child on Christmas morning because my friend turned to me and said, “Do you want to go in?”. And I said, “No. If I go in there, I won’t come out empty-handed”. Now I’ve never been one to give into peer pressure, but the next thing I know, my friend grabbed my hand, saying, “let’s go inside. You should buy something”. Now the logical part of my brain (it’s a thing. I learned about it in therapy) was saying, “Let’s not go inside, and let’s not buy anything.”
However, the feeling side of my brain (the side you’re not supposed to listen to when anxious or depressed, but I guess I should have ignored it while I was in Hot Topic, too) was saying, “Come on, you’ve been thinking about buying that sleep mask for weeks, it must be fate.” And my friend was no help. I’m never going shopping with her again, and to make a long story short, well shorter, I left with the sleep mask and a cute bt21 tank top. That was the first instance.
The second time, I was with a much more supportive and reasonable friend, but I ignored her. I did need pajama shorts, and I found some cute Aladdin shorts, but then…. I hate that they put that shelf in the middle of the store. I can’t go anywhere without seeing it…. This is why it totally wasn’t my fault when I found a BT21 shirt to go with my shorts, and honestly, I still felt pretty good about my restraint until….. Go figure they were having a sale on bt21 stuff, which is ridiculous because kpop and anything k-pop related is never on sale. That’s why I have been so great at pacing myself when buying albums.
Fun fact: I ordered Snuper’s Tulips album because I wanted a poster, and I also liked the album, so I said why not. It got here, and I was so excited, and as I was unfolding this poster, I was like, wow, this is a nice poster, but wait…. One of them should have purple hair…. And as I kept unfolding, I noticed there were too many people in the picture. And once I got it all the way unfolded, I realized it was a WannaOne poster. I hadn’t listened to them, but it was a nice poster and the perfect size for one of the frames I already had. I frame my poster because I’m afraid the edges will get crinkled or something if I don’t. So, I added it to my poster wall, and now my dog gets to admire it in all its framed glory while she eats her breakfast and dinner every day. On the bottom, above my dog’s food and water, just happened to be where on the wall it fits best. I later realized their music wasn’t bad either. That being said, I am still super bummed out that I don’t have a Snuper poster, so they better come out with a new album soon so I can buy it with the poster, and maybe next time, I’ll get the correct poster.
Anyway, back to my poor life decisions at Hot Topic…. They told me there was a sale, and my friend told me not to do it. However, I honestly was going to get my niece a Cooky plushie for her birthday, and I mean, you can never have too many t-shirts. The worst part is that I get emails now with all the amazing stuff they have. I saw some super awesome Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them shirts (I just bought and re-watched the second movie, which was AWESOME). I hate how things cost money. Why can’t everything be free? My life is so hard…. #firstworldprobs, you know? For realz, though, they say money can’t buy happiness. Still, money buys my k-pop albums and BT21 stuff, which makes me very happy, so when you think about it, money really does buy happiness. It can buy a lot of happiness. The moral of the story is I regret nothing, and money buys happiness. I feel like now I should tell you that money doesn’t buy happiness and it is something that you have to discover for yourself and all that crap, but after everything I just wrote…… I got nothing’.
Wow, that was such an abrupt ending. I hate endings like that. I’ll try harder next time.
Whatever Wednesday
