ADHD TAX STORY TIME: Christmas Edition
So I left some of my Christmas shopping a tad late (Ok, very late).
I spent WEEKS deciding what to get my partner, eventually deciding on a very nice (and very overpriced) outfit I found online.
Pleased with my decision, I attempt to checkout, only to realize the store shipped from another country and would not make it in time for Christmas.
Shit.
I find the items in my country, spread across 3 different stores with a 30% markup.
Double shit.
I spend the day tossing up other gift ideas before deadline induced panic overrides my frugal tendencies and I take the plunge.
I make all but one order.
Feeling victorious, I take a “Short break” which turns into 3 days of procrastinating while simultaneously AGONISING over the fact that if I don’t HURRY UP their present won't make it in time.
By the time I get around to actually buying the damn thing the price has jumped up, by this point I'm so flustered I don't even care... until my ‘New Customer discount’ code shows up as ‘Invalid’.
So I contact the store, spend half the day waiting for my new code and FINALLY make the order.
And it arrives in time!
…Only it arrives twice.
‘They made a mistake’ I think to myself.
Do I get to keep the additional set of clothes?
Have they emailed me requesting I return them?
I check
They did not make a mistake.
I did.
I bought the clothes the first time I shopped and proceeded to spend 3 days agonizing over buying a gift I ALREADY BOUGHT.
Guys, I bought the EXACT SAME items of $200 clothing twice.
TWICE!
I deadass emailed the store like a disgruntled Karen because the new customer code I had ALREADY USED wasn’t working...
Will I return them in time?
Or will they sit in my doom drawer for the next 2 years?