Fear + Free Gift = Idiot

As many of you know, I am afraid of pretty much everything. I am afraid of the dark, afraid of heights, afraid of speed, afraid of spiders and snakes and any bug for that matter. One of my other huge fears is wrinkles. Face wrinkles. So since the age of about 15 or 16 I have been using anti-wrinkle cream. I have also been forking out some serious cash for face products. I have purchased Mary Kay, Clinique, Estee Lauder, Wexler and Arbonne to name a few. My last purchase of face cream came from Lancome. In one of my many magazines (I love magazines) there was a free sample of some face cream – so I tried it and I liked it and went right out to buy it. Well, not right away. I had to wait for Macys or Nordstrom or Dillards to have a Lancome event so that I could get a free gift with purchase. So I go and get my face cream and my free gift. One of the items in my free gift is a different face cream from Lancome. Since it is a sample size, I put it in my gym bag and use it after I get done working out. I soon discovered that it is the best face cream ever. So I decide that once I run out of my other face creams (I use 3 different ones per day) I would go out and purchase this one to add to the mix. But I of course have to wait for the next Lancome free gift event. Luckily for me, I didn’t have to wait long as I received a flyer from Macy’s this past weekend in the mail. It lists all of their top products and the prices. I am thinking that this cream is $60 tops – but imagine my surprise when it is one of the most expensive things that Lancome carries – topping out at $108!! Why do I always have to like the expensive stuff? Stupid Lancome for their free gift. That is how they get you. They put their most expensive products in there for you to fall in love with so that you will fork out the cash on your next purchase. I thought I could out-smart their marketing pitch, but they won. I am totally believing that to fight my fear of wrinkles, I need a $108 product. Am I am idiot or what?