{"id":1114,"date":"2011-01-10T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T17:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2011-01-10T12:00:12","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T17:00:12","slug":"buypolar-but-ive-already-shown-you-every-shoe-in-the-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1114","title":{"rendered":"Buypolar: But I&#8217;ve already shown you every shoe in the store&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>v.<\/em> To purchase a bauble, article of clothing, or major appliance, in order to alleviate  anxiety or other psychological stress. Often leads to overspending. <em>n.<\/em> An item which has been purchased to fill an emotional void.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/shopping.gif\" alt=\"But I've already shown you every shoe in the store...\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Buypolar<\/strong>:  \/<em>by pol ar<\/em>\/ Wendy had trouble right after Christmas in not shopping. Although half-price or less, her non-essential purchases were of a buypolar nature and as a result, Wendy always completed next year&#8217;s Christmas shopping by January 5th of that year. Of course finding the items or remembering who they were for was the next big challenge. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Buy (purchase,acquire) &amp; bipolar (of or relating to manic depressive illness) <\/p>\n<p> <em>Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anaesdebtic<\/strong>:  \/<em>an-ess-det-ic<\/em>\/ Clare always shopped frenziedly after a coffee morning with &#8216;the girls&#8217;.  How they earned six figures, raised children, coordinated charitable fund-raisers, (and their outfits) without ever passing through puberty puzzled Clare.  Could the hollow emptiness of her inadequacy be filled with shoes?  Luckily, the anaesdebtic would soon kick in. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  anaesthetic + debt <em>Created by:<\/em> Carla.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=shopping\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=shopping<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Be Creative, <\/p>\n<p>James<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\">www.verbotomy.com<\/a><br \/>\nthe create-a-word game<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEFINITION: v. To purchase a bauble, article of clothing, or major appliance, in order to alleviate anxiety or other psychological stress. Often leads to overspending. n. An item which has been purchased to fill an emotional void. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Buypolar: \/by pol ar\/ Wendy had trouble right after Christmas &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1114\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Buypolar: But I&#8217;ve already shown you every shoe in the store&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[90,83,82,93,84,89,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}