buy it; use it...mostly

If I buy something (which I have been good about not doing lately), I feel guilty not using it.

And I sure have plenty to be guilty of —

I look in my closet and see gorgeous dresses and skirts from last year’s 70% off sale that are still unworn:  a black pencil skirt and a black woolen dress, both from Jil Sander, along with a taupe jersey skirt and a black jersey dress, both from Donna Karan.  I need a job just to wear my clothes.

I open my freezer and it’s overflowing with chicken breasts that Alexander was going to make and eat while he was home.  I hope they last until summer.

And then there’s that never-used container of Stainless Steel Magic I will use today.  I have no idea when that was purchased but the disintegrating price tag says it cost $5.99 and was purchased at Gracious Home.  And what about the Cadie Dry Cleaning Pad that promises to “erase dirt like magic?”  I should try that too.

Oh, and don’t get me started on make-up.  I have an unopened, never used, had- to-have-at-the -time jar of Shiseido White Lucent Brightening Moisturizing Cream, as well as a $15 “sugar smoothie body cream,” and a Fresh “eye color trio” that remain unopened.  I wonder if face and body products expire?  

When Alexander was home, I spent $104 for an unlimited monthly Metrocard that we shared.  Single rides are $2.25.  The card expires today and for the past week I have barely used it.  So today I feel compelled to go somewhere just because I can go somewhere for free.  So what if it’s a miserable gloomy rainy day!

I really have no errands to run.  The museums are closed (as if that’s where I’d be going).  I have too many movies at home to justify seeing one in a theater.  So I decide to go to Blooomingdales to exchange a face make-up I bought a few weeks ago (still unused) for a darker shade.  Except that’s not exactly what happens.  After testing different colors, the make-up expert at the Chanel counter concludes that the one I have is the best one for my complexion.  I leave exchanging nothing, but end up buying new Dior lipsticks.

I know I will use the new lipsticks, but using my unlimited  Metrocard on its last day ends up costing me money.  Perhaps some things are better left unused.