Compulsive shopping,a momentary high and then what ?...

A couple of months ago, I saw 'Confessions of a Shopaholic', which felt somewhat familiar.For this is exactly the kind of movie that reminds one of having "been there, done that."

Basically, this is the story of a young woman Rebecca Bloomwood who loves to shop. This, despite having closets full of clothes, shoes, scarves, boots, hats et all.

She shops and shops, and then she shops some more.Until a debt collector starts chasing her....However hard she tries to run, he seems to come closer and then even more so.

So she desperately needs to find a job, and sets her sights on one in Alette magazine.But fate seems to have other things in store for her...

Struggling with her debilitating obsession with shopping and the sudden collapse of her income source, she unintentionally lands a job writing for a financial magazine after some confusion over mailing the covering letter.

Ironically, writing about the very consumer caution of which she herself has not followed, the heroine's innovative comparisons and other related comments on economics, manage to get her critical acclaim, public success, as well as the admiration of her supportive boss Luke.

The movie manages to take us straight into the heart and mind of a compulsive shopper.We clearly see and feel the euphoria, the temporary highs and then the abysmal lows, once the thrill has worn off. Particularly in a couple of telling scenes where the closet bursts open and the clothes, shoes and the scarves all spill out, still unopened,all in their original packing.

Does this movie convey a message? To me it certainly did, that day itself.

And then again, more recently, as I stood in front of my closets.Looking in amazement at some of the things that I have bought and never worn.

Never mind if some of them are a couple of years old.

Or then, older still....