Guilty pleasures Guilty pleasures are the things that hide inside our souls and capture our minds to do things that make our brains explode with addiction. It’s called a guilty pleasure for a reason and everyone has at least one. Whether it be small like collecting cards or something huge that makes our bank accounts lower each month. I wouldn’t consider myself as the type of person that buys things out of impulse, but I do like to think of myself as the type of person who just manipulates my mind just enough to where I believe I need the very thing that I probably don’t need at that point. I think that it’s very much the American culture that brain washes our minds with the things that they think that we should want, and the things that they want us to buy that, it’s hard for any person in my generation not to be totally in love with spending their whole allowance or paycheck on things such as shoes and dresses. I also think that it’s part of the way that the culture changed for me when I first came to the United States. As a young child I didn’t have money and I hardly had clothes to wear. I’m not trying to seem pathetic but it’s true, when I was adopted I came from having so little that was mine to having everything I wanted. It was overwhelming, the feeling that you’re so indulged that you suddenly can’t get enough of something. If I could be I think I that I could have a slight hording personality, but with the help of the people around me I took a different path, and I am thankful for that. Seeing the TV shows that are about the people who keep everything, I think in every person, whether it was a childhood trauma or a death in the family or a death of a spouse, it’s all the same at some point in life they either had nothing and suddenly they saved everything to make themselves feel better, to fill that hole. Or it was that they had everything and then that someone died and suddenly they had to fill th