I'm not one of those people who plans big purchases, they just seem to happen without me realising somehow.
I admire those sensible people who spend weeks researching, comparing prices and finding the best deal. I think I really should be like that but I'm not and never will be. Actually, if I'm honest, I don't think I would like to be like that, it's too boring for words. A touch of madcap spontaneity and winging it is far more fun even if it means I probably pay more for my mobile phone or car insurance than I really need to. As far as I'm concerned, life's too short to read Which magazine, to paraphrase Shirley Conran.
I once went out to get a lampshade and came back having bought a new house, still not quite sure how that one happened. Fortunately my impulse purchases, so far, haven't been disasters, I'm still in the house that should have been a lampshade.
It does have the tendency to make those around me a bit nervous though. They tend to get worried looks when I announce that I'm just whizzing out to buy a paper, I can see them wondering what the heck I'm going to return with this time.
I never quite know when the mood is going to strike and had no idea that today was going to be the day, one of those impulsive days when I would go to bed with a bank account a lot emptier than it was when I woke up. I only popped out to the post office to post a parcel and came back having bought a car.
I even surprised myself with that one and definitely surprised the salesman when I finished the test drive and said, yep, I'll have it. It's odd as I can agonise over whether to spend £25 on a new top.
So, here's to living a spontaneous life, what's next I wonder?
Ooooo what did ya get? Another mini?
ReplyDeleteNothing so exciting, it's an i35, a box on wheels to supplement the Mini as the boys are getting too big to fold themselves into my little car now.
ReplyDeleteIn the early 80s my father-in-law was sent out to buy new bedroom furniture with his young son (now my husband). They spent a bundle of money, but returned with a Betamax video player and no furniture! The mother-in-law was not impressed, especially as time when by, and it was obvious that he should have bought a VHS!!!
ReplyDeleteOh anonymous that's priceless, love it! I remember as a young kid being given money by my dad to go and buy his paper. I bought sweets instead and wondered why he wasn't very happy and I was grounded!
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