Friday, January 29th, 2010
I’ve started something new recently… mainly due to necessity. Sure, I’d love to drop off and get a cappuccino at Starbucks and then get something tasty out but I have wasted too much money on these things. Instead, I’m living off of less these couple of months and seeing how much I can save.
I wish it was due to better circumstances, but alas not. The holiday season brought forward much thoughtful gift giving and despite the fact I was living with my father for near-enough a month, I dinged my overdraft one unfortunate Thursday. With tickets bought already to return to Dundee, and about £10 in change I hope that money owed to me would arrive quickly–but instead these things have been dragging more than I expected.
It’s been almost two weeks and somehow I still have over £4 of that budget left. I have a reserve of tinned goods in the cupboard that should last me in excess of a week, with money only spent on this highest of necessities.
I am a proud person, but in the past my money management skills have been nothing but terrible. If I wanted something, I bought it. If I was in the mood to eat out all the time or take those nights out partying, I would. I was lazy, and too used to convience.
By limiting what I do and what I have it has helped me understand what is truly special to me, and what matters. By having this experience, I have the drive to do things to make my life easier–not getting things to make my life easier.
What do you think you really need to live?
I think most of us have been there every once in a while.
Hope you get the money owed to you soon.
And you are right.
We all get too much stuff that we do not need.
I often have to remind myself of that too.