I have a strong love to buy things. But what I have an even stronger love for is buying things that are unique to your own individual experience.
Take this briefcase and these pair of shoes, for instance, which I bought at a flea market in Brooklyn:
There is something deliciously thrilling about the fact that I have claimed an item. Someone else had this, and did not love it as much as I do, and now it is mine and I will treasure it until it falls apart and goes unwearable. Or, maybe, someone DID love it, but it holds in their mind the memory of a love gone by and they can no longer bear the sight of it. The item has moved to a new chapter in its life, and I will relish in giving it a good one.
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