Potential Shopaholic?

So in less than a month I somehow spent over 800$ on stuff. This is not just on Black Friday... but I think that played a key role in it too. But in my defense, I feel like I got a decent amount of stuff for the bill that I'll be getting. So here is a list of the stuff I bought that will be on this bill (some of the stuff are presents for Christmas for family members)

• iPod Touch 5th generation in blue
• 2 pairs of leggings
• a cute tank top
• a long sleeveless sheer button down shirt that can be used as a dress(ish)
• facial mask from Clinique
• Blotting sheets from Bosica
• nail polish set from the Sephora Collection
• Smashbox Photo Finish Color Correcting Foundation Primer
• bow shirt
• shirt with sequenced sleeves
• black jeggings
• sweater (for my brother)
• Reached by Ally Condie
• Hidden by P.C. and Kristin Cast
• Vampire Diaries- The Hunters vol 3 by L.J. Smith
• Insurgent by Veronica Roth
• black and white striped sweater
• light and dark blue striped shirt
• 3 t-shirts (for my brothers)
•  my Secret Santa present ;) (2 parts)
• and some food here and there (Tim Hortons and Starbucks)

I feel like it's a decent hull, but it's still a significant amount of money... and I'm not working anymore so there is no way for me to make my money back until next summer.

To solve this problem, I've told all my close friends that if I want to get something, they must stop me from getting it. I am only allowed to buy Christmas presents and Timmies, but I need ti stop buying that too.

What do you guys think? Would you have regretted the purchases?

-J

NYC Trip

Hey guys!

So I just got back from my NYC trip. It was a fun 3 days, but boy, did that break my wallet... We spent 3 days in NYC, and now the spending limit is $800 as opposed to $400, and boy I am glad that limit went up! I spent almost $600 the last 3 days.

So let me tell you guys how the 3 days went.

Day 1:
Basically slept for an hour, since many of you know, I went to the MSO concert. Got up at 3:30AM to get ready to leave for the trip (thank God packing was done ahead). Got to the bus at 5AM, and spent 12 (yes 12!) hours on the bus, because we spent over 2 hours at the boarder and got into NYC right at rush hour... It took us an hour to get through the Lincoln Tunnel -.- Not the best way to spend a day after an hour of sleep. When we got into town, we just had enough time to go to the M&M World and Hershey's Times Square before we had to head to our hotel.

Day 2:
Spent 13 hours in New York City just walking around and of course shopping :) (I'll list my haul after i tell you guys what we did during the trip) We started off on Wall and Broadway, and walked all the way to Union Square. Now on a map it looks super far, but the walk really isn't that bad, according to Google Maps, we can walk the distance is about 45 minutes, But we took about 6 hours, why? Because we were busy shopping around. The walk is a 2.3 mi (3.7 km). We stopped my a lot of stores on the way and not to mention we had to wait for stores to open.

We went to this amazing bookstore called Strand on Broadway and 12th street. OMG this place was huge, with books going almost to the ceiling, I could honestly live there. The books they sell are used, new or rare books, and the prices there as just amazing.

When we got to Union Square we had lunch (well snack/lunch) at SeoulFood, an Korean/Mexican food truck. It was delicious, I thought it would be weird, SB once recommended it to me and I told him it sounded weird, but it was amazing, it may sound weird, but these people know what they're doing. For $10 it was totally worth it and really filling.

After eating, we decided to take our chances with the New York Subway, that was fun cause we got on the wrong tracks, then ended up having to ask a local, their Subways are quite different form the Montreal ones, they are a little less of a smooth ride, they skip stops, and a million subways pass on the same track, how are tourists supposed to find their way around?! We got off at 34th to go check out the Macy's then from there on, it was just taking our time walking to Times Square. We ended up at the back door to the Theater where they were producing the Broadway show Marry Poppins and got to see the actress in full costume since she stepped out for 2 seconds before going back into the theater after seeing us!

Day 3:
Went to Woodburry Premium Outlets and shopped like a mad person. Went to just about 6 stores and I honestly have to say, I have no idea how money flies to fast... We got back into town in about 7 hours, which was such a relief after the 12 hours it took us to get there!

Now for a list of everything I bought on the trip:

• Hershey's Chocolate World chocolate pack (4 different flavored bars)
• M&M keychain
• M&Ms from the Wall on the M&M store
• Nail Polish (Essie, O.P.I., Prevail)
• Lip Gloss (Wet n' Wild) although I really want a Clinique one, but the Sephora we went to ran out
• 2 dresses from H&M
• Kate Spade earrings (little gold bow shaped ones)
• 5 books from Strand
• A travel mug for loose tea leaves (I've been looking for this for a few months now)
• 2 pairs of Converse (one for me, one for my brother)
• 2 pairs of running shoes from Adidas (one for me, one for my other brother)
• 2 pairs of Adidas flip flops (one for me, one for my mom)
• A pair of Levis jeans
• A Nemo head Cushion for the bus ride home
• A Perry the Platypus t-shirt
• A Mickey & Minnie Hoddie
• A bottle of Lovestuck by Vera Wang

All this plus, W and AB's birthday presents! I still spent a lot of money though, there goes my next paycheck... All in all, it was an amazing trip and I would do it again, although this time, I would get all the heavy stuff later in the day instead of bringing everything around and not feeling out arms later in the day.

Until next time, cause I am in serious need for some sleep :P

-J