There was clearly an obsessive quality to what I overbought. I have seen it on this forum, too - manic spending on too much of the same thing. Lots of fabric, lots of artistic markers. For me, it was organizers. Today, I have found a new unopened cargo organizer for the trunk. What was wrong with simply putting grocery bags in a row? Why did I need an organizer? I have also found new with tags railings to display wine glasses upside down as in bars; when I bought them, we already stopped drinking wine due to migraines (red wine triggers migraines and my ex and I are both migraineurs). What was I thinking? So weird. On a mission to organize everything. And unending plastic boxes. What possessed me?..

Kay Jamison, the author of The Unquiet Mind, overbought expensive watches. What was she thinking buying more than one watch? Who needs more than one watch?

Mania is a powerful thing in how it distorts our thinking.