Alex Partridge

Yeah, gosh.

Yeah, there's a lot there, isn't there?

I suppose it's why people keep hold of their old teddy bears or their old blankets, because it's such a dopamine reminder of happy times.

And if we're dopamine-seeking beings, even if it's a minute memory, we don't want to throw it out.

It's such a knee-jerk reaction to keep it in our world.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And separating things that I do have that emotional memory attachment to it compared to things that perhaps don't, but you just don't have the executive function to return them.

Yes.

That could be the ADHD test, right?

It's like how good are you at returning online purchases?

oh my god trying to get the return code that in itself is such a challenge that they make it really hard yes well you're making me like get quite angry because i've been the victim of this a lot it's so complicated yeah buying stuff is fun because we're looking like okay we're going to feel good with those new trainers yes or that new computer game is going to make me feel good but do we not get excited about the prospect of money returning to our bank account

You'd be so stressed.

You'd go do all of those steps.

You'd finally return the thing for 50 pounds.

And then to kind of like soothe the stress, you'd go home via the supermarket and spend 60 quid.

It's the same, isn't it?

I've got like, all of my investments are tied up.

All of my money is tied up in investments.

So there's all those Amazon boxes that either haven't opened because I don't even know what's in them anymore or you can't return them.