MAC A Fantasy of Flowers Collection (February 6, 2014)

User38

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That's a complicated question.. haha. Billions of dollars, teams of marketing and consumer behavioral research experts, and hours of time spent thinking up the best way to sell us different versions of products we already have and will never feasibly use up.. in a nutshell?
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No wonder we all end up wanting so much!! How can individual will power and plain ol' good sense compete with that? Lol.
What veronikawithak said.. lol.

we are the suckers -- they get immensely rich
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veronikawithak

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Quote: Originally Posted by HerGreyness
What veronikawithak said.. lol.
we are the suckers -- they get immensely rich
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Agreed. I heard a quote once that went "They don't teach you what to want, they teach you how to want." That was so powerful to me.

I have a BSc in Psychology and even though I knoooow I'm getting sucked in to the advertising whirlpool sometimes I just can't help myself!! It's absolutely ridiculous. That's why I'm working on goals this year to make sure I'm keeping my consumer behavior in check lol.

You don't need either of those blushes @Naynadine. If I see you end up getting them I better see you in the low buy thread letting go of similar ones in your stash because I know they're there!!
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Naynadine

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Agreed. I heard a quote once that went "They don't teach you what to want, they teach you how to want." That was so powerful to me.

I have a BSc in Psychology and even though I knoooow I'm getting sucked in to the advertising whirlpool sometimes I just can't help myself!! It's absolutely ridiculous. That's why I'm working on goals this year to make sure I'm keeping my consumer behavior in check lol.

You don't need either of those blushes @Naynadine. If I see you end up getting them I better see you in the low buy thread letting go of similar ones in your stash because I know they're there!!
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I guess for some people it's lispticks, others have a thing for nail polishes, etc. Cheek products are my weakness, I have enough for a lifetime, or two... I know #teamlowbuy will help me to make more reasonable choices.
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veronikawithak

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I guess for some people it's lispticks, others have a thing for nail polishes, etc. Cheek products are my weakness, I have enough for a lifetime, or two... I know #teamlowbuy will help me to make more reasonable choices.
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I have a little bit of a problem with everything.. Lol. I tend to go in cycles of hoarding a certain type of product at a time and then moving on to something else. But I've been working on it. Since the purge I've realized how much $ has gone to waste with things I didn't get much use out of. And #teamlowbuy is keeping me in check pretty well too!!
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elegant-one

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My problem started when I was about 8 years old. We had 'show & tell' for our favorite Christmas gift at school & everyone brought toys, trucks, dolls etc., but I was thrilled to bring a palette of 64!!! watercolor shades! It must have had at least 3 different shades of pink too
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Everyone else thought mine was boring...but not me
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My hubs says its turned into 64,000 shades of makeup
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I am not an 8 color box of crayons kinda gal ;)
 

veronikawithak

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Quote: Originally Posted by elegant-one I have no idea what you are talking about
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Haha! Well, I don't see a #teamlowbuy tag so I can't harass you about it. Carry on!
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@Naynadine on the other hand is fair game! Hehehe.
 

User38

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My problem started when I was about 8 years old. We had 'show & tell' for our favorite Christmas gift at school & everyone brought toys, trucks, dolls etc., but I was thrilled to bring a palette of 64!!! watercolor shades! It must have had at least 3 different shades of pink too
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Everyone else thought mine was boring...but not me
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My hubs says its turned into 64,000 shades of makeup
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I am not an 8 color box of crayons kinda gal ;)

lolol .. 64 watercolour shades.

good for you!

I used to chop off my dolls hair and try to figure out what was inside the head and body
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NOW that was weird. But I did learn about human anatomy and there stemmed my love of mu.. and in college I actually wanted to go for med school.. until I fell in lust with a finance major who I eventually married. And all of my life have had a love of nonsense such as the economy and world markets.. what the hell is wrong with this font.. lol.

anway, we learn as children and out aptitudes are shown in many ways.
 

elegant-one

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lolol .. 64 watercolour shades.

good for you!

I used to chop off my dolls hair and try to figure out what was inside the head and body
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NOW that was weird. But I did learn about human anatomy and there stemmed my love of mu.. and in college I actually wanted to go for med school.. until I fell in lust with a finance major who I eventually married. And all of my life have had a love of nonsense such as the economy and world markets.. what the hell is wrong with this font.. lol.

anway, we learn as children and out aptitudes are shown in many ways.
died...
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I'm crying..just about chopping the heads off
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& the font...cannot stop laughing LOLOL...I love nonsense too ...tears on my laptop now

I put straight pins in my barbie dolls ears so they could have earrings....
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