Depressing reality

[callistoglow]

I have to make serious changes in my spending habits or I'm gonna be broke if I live a long time!!  I hate that.  I have struggled for many years to control my spending.  I think one problem is, when I worked at the hospital full time, I made good money and put half my check into the household expenses and the other half I could do whatever I

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[callistoglow]

Well, shopping for stuff I don't really need. I put groceries on the necessary list. lol I spend a lot on things like books, dvds, music, SCRAPBOOK stuff, eating out, ordering in, etc. It's a tough habit to break and shopping online is so darn EASY!!! I'm determined to do better!!

[chiarents]

I hope you manage to stick to it. We would all benifit from what you are doing and I am sure I would be far better off if I could keep away from reduced and sale tags LOL !!!! I love a bargain and tell myself that it is ok as it was a good price which is fine if I need the items !!!!!! I too buy craft items , books, dvds etc. and don't really need them all.

Perhaps we should have a weekly posting here on how we managed to save ourselves money and at least get a positive feed back which hopefully will give us the same happy feeling we get from spending money :)

Good luck with it all !!!!!

[callistoglow]

OK, only 4 days into lent and have FAILED 2 times, though not a great deal of money. I decided I had to ease myself into it. LOL I thought that sounded like a good excuse. Anyway.... first day of the first full week of Lent and I shall prevail!!!

[chiarents]

Good luck !!!!! Mind you we need a little treat every now and again :)