This is a story about retail therapy…
My latest addiction is sock-buying. I am spending almost £16 a week on socks. My sock habit is raging out of control.
I’m not buying socks like the ones pictured above.
I’ve become hooked on buying stupid childish socks in bright colours and with cartoons on them. I’m getting immense pleasure from buying socks with whimsical slogans on them. I’m totally addicted to the buzz I get from choosing, buying and wearing sills socks.
I’m not a morning person.
However, choosing the socks I’m going to wear on any given day, is something that’s a real highlight of my day. For something so relatively inexpensive – costing an average of £2.67 per pair – those simple socks pack a surprising punch. I feel genuine joy and happiness every time I see my growing sock collection and I pick out the pair that I’m in the mood to wear.
I have socks with an English breakfast of sausages, beans and fried eggs on them. I have socks with foxes on them. I have socks with dinosaurs on them. I have socks with hamburgers on them. I have socks with sock puppets on them, as a demonstration of the meta-stupidity I’ve descended into.
I know that other members of my clan of geeks have huge T-shirt collections, but it would be inappropriate for me to wear a T-shirt at work, no matter how witty and hilarious I thought its design was. My choice to wear silly socks is my way of thumbing my nose at the establishment, while also recognising that it’s a pretty good idea not to bite the hand that feeds me – I’m well paid, I like my colleagues and I find the work to be increasingly tolerable.
Given the vast number of things which I could possibly become addicted, and the harmful behaviours and bodily abuse which could ensue, the sock thing seems mostly harmless.
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I seriously love this!
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Brilliant Nick 🧦🧦 a very harmless, yet fun, addiction.
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That’s awesome, Nick😂…very harmless addiction😊…if you could see my scarf collection (my ‘addiction’)😂😂😂😂😂
Have a wonderful 🌞day
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Haha same here Petra 😂 can never have enough scarves!
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😂😂😂😂 So true, Alexandra👍 Have a beautiful Sunday😊
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The pair with foxes would probably be my favourite
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