[Try the second. Was almost done with this entry, mother dearest called me afk and while I was afk my computer crashed. Bah.]
First there was the wrought iron candleholder I bought on Wednesday. Well, it was cheap, and I'd never had a fancy candleholder before. And it's pretty, wrought iron and glass, looking like a tree. (Though I don't know if I'll ever have the courage to actually use it to hold a lit candle. It's so pretty, I don't want wax to drip all over it.)
Then yesterday I was told the ethnic-type store five minutes by bike from my house was having a sale (they're closing down for a bit to renovate the store). It sells mirrors with fancy wooden frames, incense, candles, wooden carvings, stones, handmade paper, that sort of thing, and I've always loved it. But, always being mostly broke, I could never get many things from there. There was one thing in particular I'd been wanting to get for a while - a small mirror, with a wooden frame shaped like an owl. I'd been considering buying it at full price, so when I heard there was a sale at that store, of course I ran to get the mirror. And sure enough, I got it for a 50% discount.
Then last night I found my incense burner again, and realized, hey, I need to get more incense. And the store that's closing for a bit and having the sale is the only place I can get the good incense at (supermarkets have some, but it's the crappy stuff with the fancy names like Fluffy Light Blue With White Accents Sea Foam that smells like shit). And it's having a sale, everything is 50% off, so I can get twice the incense I could usually get. Hmm.
So this morning I went out and bought myself some more incense :P
Then, to get home, I (stupidly) took the route that passes inside the castle. (Yes, the city I live in has a castle in the center.) So I spent some time looking at all the nice things in the windows of the stores inside the castle. Didn't buy any of them, though, didn't need or want any of them.
Until I got to the soap store, that is.
See, there's a soap store inside the castle, that sells handmade soap by weight. I'd only been there once, shortly before Christmas, and had sworn to myself I'd never go back there again, because I didn't have enough money to buy all the soap I'd have wanted to buy from there.
I stopped and looked at all the pretty soaps in the store window, and well, you know that cartoon gag where a scent wafts out of somewhere, catches somebody by the nostrils and drags them in? That's what the scent from that store did to me. :P
I was doing very well at not buying any of the soaps, though. Until the saleslady pointed out to me that if I wanted to smell soaps, they had slices of all of them on the counter, conveniently there for people to smell.
And well, let's just say my new aniseed soap smells very nice. :P
I already know what soap I want to buy after the aniseed soap runs out, too, as they gave me shards of other soaps to try out when I bought the aniseed one, and they smell very nice too. And mom has decided, after seeing the informative leaflet I brought home from the store, that she wants a bar of soap from there for Mother's Day.
I just hope the world won't toss me anything else I Really Need To Buy Immediately at me anytime soon. I'm almost broke. :P