Its official. That addiction forming 'Primark effect' (where spending more than £10 on an entire new wardrobe seems nothing short of frivilous) has stretched out into other parts of my life.
I went car shopping last Saturday and afterwards was taken to Tesco by my parents instead of the usual Asda at the foot of my road. And worryingly I was scandalised by anything over £2....Tesco's vegetables are very expensive! Except they are not, its just that the confines of Dunfermline only provide shopping experiences such as Primark and Asda so suddenly everything else seems like you are paying through the nose. I left £12.38 lighter but feeling like I was about 2 shopping bags short of a full picnic 
So I ask, is this Primark effect a good thing or a bane on our existence? Being a former 'liberal spender' (ie. shopaholic), I find that my former self still screams to get out and in the worst possible way. So now, I will happily be going along budgetting my way through the month when out of nowhere I will find myself in Harvey Nicks clutching a very expensive bag and drawing myself dangerously near to a till point. Which is WAY worse than my normal month to month pre-Primark spending!
Footnote: Primark, I love you. Please pay no heed to my rant and never close. 
