4 Pandemic Purchases I Love A Year Later — & 3 I Regret

Instagram will have you believe I am one of those insufferable Pollyannas who actually picked up some new skills during the pandemic instead of just languishing in existential dread. And while that’s partially true – I’m now a solid B-minus student at royal icing sugar cookies and I made this giant snowflake marquee – I did not tell my followers just how much time I spent burying my emotions in a ThredUp scroll. That website claimed a truly shocking number of my waking hours in 2020 for reasons I can’t explain. Was it the thrill of the chase? Nostalgia for snappy little wrap dresses after weeks of nothing but hoodie-and-leggings combos? The numb comfort of free shipping? We may never know. All I do know is that this weird coping mechanism is responsible for many of the items on this list of the best and worst things I bought during the pandemic.

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