Gold Rush: i WANT never GETS

That's a classic saying isn't it? I remember when I was younger and my Uncle used to say two things to me. When I'd say "what" he'd say "pardon", much to his annoyance, this polite English way of words never stuck.

Whenever we used to go shopping, as a child, and now, as a fully fledged adult (?) I have a tendency and an innate built in response to things I love; i.e immediate ownership. I still don't know whether or not it's harder now, to deny myself the things I so rightly deserve (ahem) or it was easier as a little 'un.

Back in the day, it was always easier for me to inflict the annoyance of lack of ownership onto my Mother or the most responsible person who's care I was in that day (this varied from Father or Aunt to close neighbours - much to my Mother's disdain) meaning I could kind of convince myself that if I wanted something in my head, it would sound something like this...

"Well once I'm older, I'll never deny myself of anything - it's just their fault they had me at this age and I'm too young to have any weight behind crucial decisions" [crucial decision adj. 1. being denied a Tammy Girl Spring/Summer embellished "glitter girl" top] Then complete the act of utter brat-like behaviour and stomp out of said shop, kicking everything in sight waiting for those precious fake-tears to fall.

And the now...the excruciating moment when you see something you adore that's over £150 and have to immediately turn and make a swift escape to the nearest exit for fear something similar to the above happening, only not being able to get away with it, what, being a 23 year old "woman" and not having the nonchalant carefree attitude of a 10 year old Princess.

So before I'd have a chance to stomp my feet all the way out of the nearest Etam shop, I'd hear those dreaded four words "Now, Victoria, I want...." The older I got, the less of a chance anybody had to finish this sentence as I would wait no longer than around 5 seconds (to gain maximum impact) to complete stage one of brat-like behaviour.

I think what I'm trying to get at is, the wanting of things that you desire never fails to make a huge impact on my day-to-day life. I enjoy the feeling of loving something - a new bag, new shoes, or if really desperate, new home wear appliances (I did a little 'yelp' at a bath matt a few weeks ago) and then going out and actually owning it. [Don't, in any situation, steal it - cue Barbie-gate circa 1994]

Here are a few AW Pieces that I will be lusting over, moaning about, dropping hints about and generally wasting other people's time until they are under office ownership of, well, me.