I've got a new prescription for reading glasses.  If I buy them this week, I can get some cute frames for really cheap (a sale); if I wait, I can still buy different ones, maybe better, for a good deal at the eye doctor's office.  The new prescription is slightly weaker than the last one - filled in 2000 I think - which was weaker than the one before that.  The doctor said I could continue to wear my old ones, but... (of course she's supposed to sell glasses too).  I can put it off until January but maybe the glasses at the doctor's office aren't as good as the sale ones!  And what if the doctor's office changes their inventory and the ones we picked out are no longer available!

Am I so desperate for new things that I'm trying to justify the purchase of glasses that I don't actually need?  (Need taken in a real-life need sort of way.) I think I'm coming up against something big here on material items...The food thing hit about 4 or 5 months in, and I've had creeping moments of wanting to buy things here and there, but now it's really bad.  Becoming more conscious about the things I desire, buy, consume, and throw away is transitioning to me becoming obsessed.  I'm wasting a stupid amount of energy on these decisions: first about the decision to buy or not to buy, and then trying to analyze the tricks I'm playing on myself and psychologize what my desires might mean.  Maybe it's just better to buy the damn things and get it over with!

Of course I could be trying to justify the failures of my experiment and its ideology.