I am totally fine with goods, both brick and mortar stores and online. Amazon bombards me with suggestions and I just delete them (when will I take time to designate Amazon suggestions as spam to never see them again?). I do not overpurchase at grocery stores, farmers' market, thrift stores. No urge, no desire, everything is fine.
But lately - am I turning hypomanic on Prozac? - I have been wanting to spend money on services. Amazon offered a voucher for excel classes online, I bought it. Fine, I do not know pivot tables and it would be nice to, plus the discount was deep - 82% off. Then they sent me 50% off a 90-min massage, and I bought it. I later found out that the massage outfit is many cities away. It would cost me $10 to get there, gratuity plus $47 that I paid - not cheap anymore. I know I deserve a long massage, but I also have credit card debts.
Then I bought, gasp, body fat percentage testing. You put on a swimsuit, get submerged in a pool and get told with scientific precision what your percentage of fat and lean muscle mass is. And then you can exercise your a... off, get tested again and hope to have a better reading. $35. Scheduled for the end of the month.
Then I wrote to my endocrinologist, who is very good and whom I see annually for Lithium-induced hypothyroidism, asking if I should lose weight, get on Metformin, etc., presenting her with the facts that my BMI is almost 32 yet I feel good and am active. She said it is a long conversation, not an email. I wrote back asking for the procedure code of the visit so that I can determine if I can afford it -- I do not have insurance through work -- and mentioned the underwater fat percentage testing. She gave me the codes and opined that this fat percentage testing is unnecessary. I went ahead and cancelled it - she saved me $35. I am waiting for the billing department to tell me how much I would need to pay if I want to see her.
At the same time, I spend time managing money, making sure payments are made on the credit cards, so I am not totally insane in that department.
Does the above sound like a beginning of hypomania? Does anyone else have an urge to spend money strictly on services?
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