I've tested myself many-a-time by walking into the old addictive shops and wandering around. There is something satisfying about swatching products to realize how much of it I already have in dupes, and how many new releases are more for my fantasy self than my real self.

It almost backfired yesterday. I was wandering around a boutique I used to frequent inside the mall (where I am, mall walking is the best form of exercise given the blazing hell-like conditions outside), and lo-and-behold, there was a brand that I've never seen in person on the last shelf before I walked out with a product I'd been itching to try.

I greedily snatched up the product, and started making my way to the checkout line. Fortunately, there were a lot of people in front of me. I pulled up the picture of all of my current products in the same family on my phone and walked back to the display to swatch. Guess what? I already have every shade of the product in my collection, and I didn't like the way it felt.

I put it back, and walked out of the store empty-handed. I told myself that, if one day, I could pan all of the items in that category, maybe I'll go back and try again, but for now, I have enough, and have no reason to get more. My one allotted drawer is full, and well-organized. Getting another one will make the drawer cluttered and difficult to deal with. Also, I'm working on decluttering the category that product is in by rotating through the products I already have. Why would I do that to myself?

I call today a serious win against the magpie goblin that is my brain.