Ever wonder if you lived before? I think if I did I was in a whole different social class than I am now. The only thing that transferred here with me is high-faluting taste. The accomodating budget stayed wherever I came from.

I swear you can set two similar items next to eachother. One $20 the other $200. I would unknowingly choose the item bearing the higher price tag. Every. Single. Time. I certainly didn’t inherit this practice from my thrift store, Dollar-Tree shopping mother.

What even got me thinking about this? I think it was the Melissa McCarthy Booking.com commercial. My husband enthusiastically called for me to see the advertisement, announcing that her partner in the clip is her real spouse. Apparently he thought that fact was worthy of distracting me from what I was doing at the time (which, mind you, is long gone from my memory.) I didn’t notice anything about the booking.com promotion other than Melissa’s pajamas. That’s right. Her pajamas. They have lingered in my mind ever since. I want them. The intent of making moms everywhere long for a vacation “somewhere, anywhere” was missed on me. I want the pj’s. I lay in bed last night, tossing and turning. I can’t get comfortable. But I bet I could if I had that beautiful nightwear on. I reach for my phone, it’s under the bed for emergencies such as this. I get right to the point, “what pajamas is Melissa McCarthy wearing in booking commercial?” Aha……”As seen on TV…watch Melissa McCarthy get swept away in her ‘PRINTFRESH’ HIGH HORSE PAJAMAS. That’s it. I found them. In the bat of an eye, I’m scrolling through the Printfresh site, there they are!! All vibrant and colorful and pretty. Horses adorning the eye-catching print. Ohhhhhhhh……I need these. I don’t really like horses. But I like pretty. I like blue, I like soft, I like bright colors. I like flowers. Oh yes….I need these. I find my size. They’re going in my cart. Gulp $158.00. And if I want the coordinating robe it’s an additional $248.00. What was I expecting? This Superbowl focused commercial to have the actress wearing pajamas from TJ Maxx? I reluctantly refrain from the purchase though it continues to haunt me. But when the sensical Colette emerges (the one that doesn’t always show her face when it comes to purchases) I have to listen. I calculate how many hours I have to work as a nurse to buy that conglomeration.

I will say advertising is brilliant. It can suck a blue collar worker like myself into longing for something they’d have to work hours to afford. Maybe some people wouldn’t notice that stuff. That’s why I’m quite sure I was something fancier and wealthier in my past life. Eventually I did fall asleep, in my mismatched pajamas.