In the past three days I have made two very foolish money moves, I am ashamed to admidt.
The first move was letting my craving for a Pizza Hut stuffed crust pizza override my knowledge that I had a perfectly respectable Red Barron pizza in my freezer (cost less than $2 on sale + coupon).
The second move I didn't discover until I went into my purse to get out the $20 to pay for the pizaa. On Sunday I had stopped at Walgreens and got a couple items, along with taking out a $20 for cash. Apparantally I forgot to take that $20 out of the Walgreen's bag before throwing it away!!!! The trash bag with that WG bag in it has already been taken to the dumpster (before I discovered this horrible news.)
So, now I need to figure out where I should deduct this $20 from in my budget. Should I take it from my "other" money - which wouldn't be too much of a hardship for me? Or, should I deduct it from my "Fun" money (though I'm not sure I have that much balance)? Hmmm... this was definitely an expensive lesson on checking my store bags BEFORE throwing away!
KIF,
Laura
Foolish Money Moves
April 19th, 2006 at 01:07 am
April 19th, 2006 at 01:18 am 1145405919
You're not alone in spending unwisely. I had $42 carefully stashed away and today when I heard the ice cream truck, I busted into one of my quarter rolls and spent $3.75 for ice cream bars for the family. Now I'm down to $38.40 until the 3rd of next month when I will be able to add $55.30 to my savings. However, I'm going to miss my goal of $100 by roughly $6.00. I am not pleased with myself about that and promptly told the boys that the next time the ice cream truck comes around they must take the money out of their spending jars and buy their own. They get a regular allowance each, and know that they can only spend the money out of their spending jars;savings jars are not to be touched.
April 21st, 2006 at 01:36 am 1145579774
we have way too much to take care of and so little help.. and sooooooooooo much to remember.... we all have amiss days!! learn to chill is what my son always tells me. it is hard to do.