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Originally Posted by FluffyDinosaur
I definitely hear you on the spending, I'm prone to that myself. I'm glad to hear you seem to have it under control these days. Like you I also tend to develop lots of new hobbies and ideas for projects, and I really think I can pull it all off because I have so much more self-esteem. It has sometimes paid off, but many times I never finish those projects, or I take on obligations that I later regret and have to wiggle my way out of.
I'm ashamed to say I nearly caused an accident on the highway once because I was speeding. It was a close call and just luck that it didn't end badly. After that I was paranoid for weeks that the police would show up at my door. I'm still prone to driving recklessly when hypomanic, but I'm more aware of it now and I try to reel myself in when needed or let my wife drive instead. The spending still tends to get out of hand nearly every time. I tend to be very good at rationalizing why I really need to buy all that stuff. It's so easy nowadays with online shopping.
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Yeah. What usually happens when I shop online is that I find something I like. Just a single item. Nothing more, nothing less. Then I see that the site has something like 10% off $50 or more. Then 15% off $75 or more. Then 20% off $150 or more. That's when I think, "wow, what a great deal I'm getting! I'm getting all these items for 20% off because I'm spending $150!!" I then start adding more and more s*** to my cart. I also then say to myself, "whoa, maybe I should get accessories with these items. Accessories would be soooooo cool!"
Sometimes I'll even be randomly browsing a site and then I see a "featured product." I'm like, "huh... what do we have here?" Then I'm like, "ohhh, this looks cool! I think I can turn this into a hobby!" Then I proceed to buy a bunch of items related to said "featured item," even though I have NO idea if I will like that type of product.
I've also been known to watch random YouTube videos (via "YouTube recommendations") and get inspired to buy things. Like, I may see a video where someone is like, "I'm gonna watch Tik Tok videos on my old iPad." Then I'm like, "I have an iPad. But wait... that looks like a NEWERRRRRR iPad than mine! I want a new iPad even though mine works perfectly fine!"
bleh. I'm bad at this...