Online shopping again

This week was a short week as my department had teambuilding on Friday. Friday was Black Friday and coming Monday, Cyber Monday.

I was able to hold off my online shopping for Fri, but i bought 7 tee-shirts on Sat, another damage of 71 bucks done.

Though at that time, I knew that I should stop but once again, the irrational side of me won. I excused myself saying that my tees were not appropriate for work, and previously I bought 4 pair of jeans. There was difficulty finding a tee that I can wear to work.

So once again, I gave in.

This morning, I did another online shopping, this round for dog food. So this is a necessity, my dog wet food supplies are low.

Christmas is an exact 25 days from today. For the past years, I have been giving xmas gifts to all my colleagues. But as I search around, I couldn't find an useful gift. So this year, I decided not to give anything.

Coming week is another short week as I will be on a 2-day course. for first 3 days, I will be going for my fightzone session with my colleague.


7 December 2019 (Saturday)
Another week has just passed. I have not bought any things online although there was a lot of promotions especially yesterday.

I have practised that if I bought something online, I will transfer the same amount that I have spent to my saving accounts (I have this account whereby I transferred a fixed amount to it on my payday every month). I put it into practice when I spent 71 bucks last week. Since then, I didn't make any online purchase.

The week had been an uphill one. Received news that the year end bonus was going to real bad and it was. Luckily for me, I did not spend alot because I always assumed I would get 0 year end bonus. And I also did not plan to buy any xmas gift this but as of now, I am thinking to buy a $10 dollar vouchers.

Throughout the week, what kept me going was my fight zone. It was the only thing to look forward to everyday. I have a colleague who is as crazy as me over it. We have been doing it 3x a week for the past 3 weeks.

In another 3 weeks, I will relook and review my finances. I would have accumulated around 24k savings. The year 2020 is going to be a recession year, the stock prices will be hit. I am monitoring the situation. If the price is right, I will jump in. So far, the stock prices have held on.

Youtube video on nice and grand houses

For the past few weeks, whenever I have free time whether in the mornings before I head off to work, or whenever I am on my commute to work, I would browse Youtube videos on condo, landed or hdb that showcase nice looking houses for sale.

Everyone has an ideal dream house, so do I. For me, my dream house is Interlace Condo (the 4,000 to 5,000 sqft ones). I like big spaces mainly because my grandfather's house (in Muar) was a huge bungalow. I still remembered the living room (it was easily 3000 sqft).

So whenever I got time, I would kapo abit and see what are the units for sale at Interlace condo. But recently I got a change of heart. As I look at the youtube videos showing the nice houses, I realised that given my lazy personality, my lifestyle (I am the kind that would just laze on the sofa after coming back from work), it wouldn't make any sense for me to get a nice big house and then spent tons of time in keeping it pristine.

My current HDB is 1356 sqft and I feel tired having to mop the floor 4 times a week. Sometimes I would wish all my furniture just vanish, so I wouldn't have to wipe the dust.

Imagine if I have a 5,000 sqft house, the cleaning and upkeeping is going to take up all my time. This is a nightmare! I wouldn't want to be a slave to my house (my house should be my slave).

I came to appreciate my house more. It is functional, and able to accommodate me. I have spaces to do my exercises.

Though my location is abit far from the central area, I feel consoled when I talked to colleagues who also took 45 mins to go to work (I am not alone :)).

Trying out this new habit

Recently I was reading online how to curb my shopping spree.

One of the ways was to save an equal amount of dollar for every dollar spent.

As usual, I was in a shopping mood today. Went to buy 2 yoga exercise pants that costs me 81 bucks. 

I just transferred 81 from my account to my other saving account. Not sure how this pan out.

Sign up for muay thai gym

I am really not a gym person as in, I have heard people such as some of my colleagues whi have joined a gym,, but seldom used it.

But yesterday i decided to try a free-trial for fight zone which opened in my office. A very enthu colleague and me went for the trial, there was a total of 9 stations and every day they are different.

Although i was very put off by the price 169 per month for 6 months, I actually enjoyed the stations. Some were hard.

So I decided to sign up for 6 months because of it is not effective, I will stop after that.

My current weight 64.5, 30.8% body fat. I shall monitor this again on month basis.

11.11.19 mega sales

I felt guilty as I write this post. For the past few days, I had been thinking about my online window shopping experience.

As indicated in my earlier post, it seems that I am getting addicted to online shopping.

In month of Oct, I made approx 180 purchase of clothes through zalora. Then 2 weeks later, I spent 100 on 2 books.

The root of this is the stress and anxiety I felt from my work. I want to escape from them, and in doing so I immersed myself in shopping...

I will not make any purchase for myself for the next 2 months. This cannot persist.