Comments | birkwelch: stuff overload

birkwelch

stuff overload

Feb 06, 2008 14:39

I have to admit, I have a lot of fun shopping for things I need at my new apartment, but the spending of the money -- it freaks me out. I keep having a (mostly suppressed) feeling that I'm going to go broke. And there's the worrying thing about my car -- check engine light is on most of the time, but the mechanic I took it to had it for weeks and ( Read more... )

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sundart February 6 2008, 22:44:59 UTC

Hooray! It's an apartment! *ahem* If a certain someone wouldn't mind sending along his address, perhaps a housewarming package could be arranged..... ;)

birkwelch February 8 2008, 20:41:50 UTC

Shoo! You're supposed to be in the land of no typing, until your wrists are miraculously replaced by Terminator style liquid metal ones that can crush boulders and oppress small island nations (some people rule with an iron fist; you'll rule with an iron wrist).

As for housewarming... eh... wait until I get a real job and send me a jobwarming package (how is it that I had to invent jobwarming as a word?) if you must. But if you just want to send chain letters, pocket lint, or death threats cut from magazines, I can be found at 3108 S 1000 E, Salt Lake City, UT, 84106. My only phone number is 801-512-3830 -- sometimes I even answer it.

jrbl February 8 2008, 15:24:59 UTC

Fantastic. Congrats on having everything working. Was the stove actually busted, then?

Thanks again for the graduation present. It is now all spent - mostly on comics, but also on a 1GB RAM upgrade for my computer, which is happy for the change.

You're not going to go broke, promise.

birkwelch February 8 2008, 20:48:40 UTC

It's not that I'll _actually_ go broke; it's a feeling of potential brokeness, caused by spending more money than I earn. I haven't had negative cash flow for almost 9 years. I'm not sure if I'll continue to spend more than I earn, or if most of this is one-shot things and later on things will stabilize.

Since the rent is $125 less per month than I was willing to pay (which would have made it impossible to balance my budget), it's now become sort of a mental game to see if my current situation is economically sustainable without changing/adding jobs, even though that is the eventual goal.