Empty Hands

Coming back from a shopping trip with nothing in your hands is, as all women agree even if they want to deny it, depressing. A female loves sprucing up her wardrobe by going to the outlets and seeing what fashion upgrade she will invest in for the New Year. Its New Years Eve day, the outlets were at their prime with all of “trying to get rid of” holiday season sales, and yet, many walk out empty handed. Maybe it was the freezing weather outside that has tempered with our ability to agree to spend our christmas money or maybe it’s the thought of not wanting to spend it on not just anything but the perfect something. We want that Christmas gift of shopping money to be spent the right way. But, then we keep telling ourselves this reasoning of spending it on the perfect piece of clothing or jewelry or shoes week after week, month after month. It has come to the point that when I look through my wallet, I can find at least 2 gift cards that are 5 months old. We continue with this self depressing feel when we look down at our empty hands and fully loaded gift cards even though we have a build up of unused gift cards hanging in the purse wrapped around our shoulders. It is our fear of dissatisfaction in their use that stops the process. Our inner conscience is saying “no, I can do better” when actually, sometimes we can’t. Sometimes we just need to learn to settle or our purses will become overloaded with those thin rectangles full of regret.