How to Create a Project out of Clearance Splurging

1. Take a trip to your favorite store for specific necessities and allow your eyes to take in the plethora of clearance merchandise.
2. Allow your mind to justify that tool or bolt of fabric by saying to yourself, “I am creating a positive environment for myself and my family/guests.” (Now, don’t you feel the empowerment taking hold?)
3. While your creative juices are freely flowing and your imagined projects abounding, begin gathering merchandise. Get as many “on sale” products as possible and remember… you can always use these items in the future.
4. Now it’s time to gather the non-sale accessories to complete the various projects. (If you chose to leave without these, it will give you permission to go shopping somewhere else. Beware, that might cause severe agitation, since the projects you’ve imagined will not be able to be completed and proof of their benefit will be impossible to obtain, hence, canceling out step 2.)
5. Now that you have gathered all your project(s) materials, calculate the total. Often this total is quite a bit more then you expected.
6. Refer to step 2
7. Continue shopping for the items, you originally came for. Don’t despair if you now don’t have the money to get them all. Generic food deals are on every isle, and maybe you have needed to put yourself on a diet.
8. Get in line to checkout and silence that voice of worry screaming in your sub-conscience.
9. Refer to step 2 again.
10. While placing items on the ebony belt at checkout, take 1 or 2 project items out of the buggy and stuff them into the candy and magazine racks to avoid embarrassment when the total is over your budget.