When I shop, the world is better.

I can certainly relate to that.  There’s something therapeutic when it comes to shopping. 


Image courtesy of shopaholicmovie.com

No, I’m not a shopaholic. Although, given the chance, I would gladly and happily spend whatever cash or credits I have till nothing is left. Shopping is really fun.

The thing with credit cards is.. it takes a really really huge amount of self-control not to use them. There’s always something on display that you don’t need but you just absolutely can’t live without. Remember the part in the movie where the manequin seduced Miss Bloomwood to buy the green scarf (it looks cheap, by the way)? Yeah, that’s basically what you would hear everytime you walk through Pavilion, or Suria KLCC, or Midvalley Megamall. If you’re not strong enough, then there goes your credit balance.

So, what does the movie tell you?

To pay off your credit card debts Rebecca Bloomwood’s style, you need to:

  1. Get a job totally not related to your area of expertise.
  2. Hook up with the boss (provided he’s drop dead gorgeous and rich as hell, of course).
  3. Do something that would glamorously put yourself on national tv. (Although how one article can turn Miss Bloomwood into an instant celebrity just escapes me. It sounds too good to be true.)
  4. Then get yourself humiliated on national tv on the problems you’re having with your credit cards debts. (It’s entirely up to you, of course.. but I’ll pass on this one.)
  5. The boss, who is somehow in love with you, dumps you. So you resigned.
  6. Then you turned down a job offer that pays a ridiculous amount of money just because you developed a conscience all of a sudden.
  7. Since you don’t know what else to do, you get the people from Shopaholic Anonymous support group which you’ve been attending to together and organise a clearance sale on all the things you’ve bought but you don’t even remember you have them.
  8. The sale you made finally managed to cover all your credit cards debts.
  9. Your drop-dead-gorgeous-and-rich-as-hell ex-boss somehow realised that he can’t live without you and wants you back.
  10. You gladly accepted him and live happily ever after.

So… think you can do all those? Maybe in your dreams.


Image courtesy of shopaholicmovie.com