Friday, July 31, 2015

Shopaholic's Sister: Most Influential Character

I am currently reading "The Art of Thinking Clearly", which is thought provoking, but not necessarily new to me. This was especially true on thinking fallacies related to money. I realised that these were habits or ideas that were already stuck in my head. Ironically, it was inspired by one of the characters in "Shopaholic & Sister" by Sophie Kinsella. I think I can be quite thrifty on certain types of expenditure.

Honestly, I don't even remember Shopaholic's sister's name (As you can tell, Shopaholic's name too) but I have always thought that her character to be remarkable. I felt that I identified with her thoughts and beliefs of being thrifty and not to mention, waste-averse. And soon, I began to adopt her ways too.

Oh, I just googled her name. It's Jess.

I think I read  the book when I was thirteen but I remember the parts when Jess imposed  these questions to her sister, and now to me ;

a)Why do you need to buy books when you can just borrow from the library?
b)Why do you need to go to the gym when you can just exercise at home?
c)Why not use a pencil to write on birthday cards so other people can give to another birthday girl?

Honestly, I am always repeating a) to my ex-roommate. She disagreed because she claimed that she writes notes and refers to her purchased books. I have no argument against that. But come one, who (except a few) does that?

The thought of b) has always been in my head. But I don't think this applies to me since I don't exercise voluntarily much.

About c), hmmm I am not sure if I dreamed it, or it really happened in my family. If it really did, it had nothing to do with Shopaholic.

After my explanation, it seems like I only learnt to frequent the library. I beg to differ, I feel like I learnt a lot from her. However, I cannot support my reasons. My memory is not that great but lets hold on to the thought that Jess really did influence my thriftiness, I supposed I expanded Jess's ideas from the books and applied to other things as well.

Note: I am not promoting the Shopaholic series, I am so over it. But I would recommend "Shopaholic & Sister" since it made me reflect on myself. And sorry if this post seems a bit off. I realised to day was the deadline for my self-imposed blog challenge. So, I quickly typed, a few hours before the deadline. I am sleepy. Night! I'll fix this post when I am more motivated (which might be never).


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