Helping out the economy

By Todd Stadler · Saturday, February 3, 2001 6:02pm

I went shopping today. Again. I'm beginning to worry about rampant capitalism on my part. Buy, buy, buy. I rationalize it by noting that I haven't actually bought new clothes in quite some time. Much of my wardrobe was purchased in my early years at college, when for some odd reason, I had an insatiable thirst for plaid.

It seems so silly now. I mean, now that I've realized that bright solid colors are so much cooler than plaids. I don't know what I was thinking back then. Bright solids just make so much more sense.

So I now have more red tops, and yellow tops. Oh my, and orange tops, too. And how. Perhaps it was a reaction to today's dismal weather.

Why, I even bought a new Swatch today. It's a slap bracelet (remember those?) with a watch on it. And the yellow is so hypnotizing! That's probably why it matches my other watch.

Still, it's all so much. I'm not going to even talk about my new shoes.