Gazingas pings
A long time ago I read Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence
The book discusses the concept of the gazingas pin. Most people have gazingas pins. A gazingas pin is something you buy, collect, have a bunch of, and don’t actually need. (Maybe you need one, but not a collection.) What do you collect? Some people collect figurines, or pins, or socks, or can openers. My husband went through a stage where his gazingas pins were technical books and another stage of VHS tapes.
My gazingas pin is the purse. I have a basement full of purses and I can’t seem to stop myself from buying more. I don’t buy every purse I see. A purse has to meet a set of criteria for me to “need” it. Nevertheless, I have purchased many purses in my quest for the perfect purse, that purse that will be so awesome it will put a stop to my inane purchases.
We went to a birthday party today. On the way home I told my husband I wanted to go buy some shirts. I’m going to a conference in a few days and I didn’t have any appropriate clothes that fit and weren’t in style in the 80’s. We saw a Ross on the side of the road, and he let me go in and he stayed in the car, reading a book, with the sleeping kids.
I was in there a long time. It took me probably about an hour to try on 16 different things and walk out with a giant shopping bag.
My husband saw the purse immediately. (Ross has a lot of purses.)
He said, “That’s cute.”
Did I pick a winner or what?
Labels: financial independence, gazingas pins, Joe Dominguez, Vicki Robins, Your Money or Your Life
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