I've Been a Bad, Bad Girl

This is why it is a bad idea to live next door to a mall:

9am: Wake up, realize I have no clean clothes to wear to a work event in the afternoon.
10am: Ponder doing laundry, but fail to find clothes (that aren't dry-clean only) that would be appropriate for said event.
11:20am: set off to the mall to find one outfit ($100 max) to purchase for work.
12:30pm: return home with $370 in clothing purchases including: 2 pairs of pants, 1 t-shirt, 1 jacket, 1 nice button down shirt, 1 cute random $70 bright blue shirt that would be good for, uh, clubbing (do I ever go clubbing?), and 1 sweater.
12:40pm: Put on jacket, t-shirt, and pants, and head out to work event.

Anyway... I'm now trying to figure out if I should return anything. Obviously I can't return what I wore yesterday. I really like the sweater from Express... and it wasn't too expensive so I'm going to keep it. Really the only items I could return are the $40 bright blue button down, short-sleeve shirt and the gray dress pants, also from Express. But I always manage to not have any pants to wear. I should return the shirt. I don't even know if I'll ever wear it. I'm still upset with myself for buying a dress --on sale--at Macy's a year ago and then never wearing it and managing to not attempt to return it until it was too late to make the return. That's $53 down the drain.

In any case, I shouldn't have spent $370 on clothes! That's ridiculous and I know it. But clothes make me happy. I'm an addict. And I've decided that buying things on sale is a waste... because then I always buy things (like that dress) and never wear them. Well, the jacket I bought yesterday WAS on sale (for $60, compared to its $173 original price tag) but... my new rule is to buy clothing that I am in love with at the store, because i know i'll get a lot of use out of it. For instance, the $70 purple shirt and $160 jeans I bought last month have already been worn... a lot. I try to buy machine wash and dry clothes now, since my dry-cleaning bin is filled up and I'm too stubborn to spend $100+ getting it all washed. Of course that would be cheaper that going out and buying new clothes.

Hmm. So I think I have a shopping addiction. And it's pretty bad. I'm depleting my savings, even while making $50k a year. How is that even possible?