Lei’s official Weblog

I’ve just had a check of my order history of the last few years on Amazon.co.uk. The earliest I can trace back was an purchase I made on 17th Sep 2003, I bought a textbook on that day. Im not so sure if that was actually the first purchase I made on Amazon, I’ve always thought that I started buying online a bit earlier than that. I have made another 36 purchases (a total of 72 items; mainly books of course) over the last three years since that order, and I spent somewhere between £1000 and £1500 during the period. In fact, the amount I spent on Amazon turned out to be much lower than I expected. Of course, apart from purchasing online I’ve also bought many books in real bookstores. I think in total I’ve probably spent around £2000 on books over the last four years, roughly £500 each year. That may not sound like lots of money, but I’ve always been very selective in choosing which books to purchase despite this is the area where Im most subject to impulse buys. Surely, the expenditure would be much higher if I had much more money in my pocket. My mother has always blamed me for wasting money on books, understandably, she’s worried that books are too heavy that I won’t be able to bring them back to China easily in the future, but I think buying books is at least much better than wasting money on clothes and cosmetics. I’ve known many friends who regularly spends a big portion of their monthly income on clothes and cosmetics costing over £200 per item, I once asked one of them why he spent so much money on clothes, he told me it’s because it shows his status, I found that response hilarious!