I keep reading about all the 'free' things to do in and around London, and i have to say it's all a hoax maybe a government based one, maybe a Topshop based one, but a hoax all the same. As much as my credit crunched little heart tries, everything i do involves the spending of my hard earne.... well earned at least, money.
So, in my attempt to budget my life i bought an uber cute little leopard print notebook and matching pen from accessorise (i know - the irony of buying to budget is not lost on me). So in this new cute notepad (with pink pages!) i try my best to write down everything, and i mean everything that i spend.
Now, as i understand it, this act is to make me think about what i'm spending and why... when really all i think is 'well if i just sacrificed my weekly food shop this week, i'd be able to buy that third pair of indigo skinny jeans, that i so desperately need.' Food's overrated anyway.
I honestly think there may be something wrong with me, and I'm sure it's an 'itis'. One day Dr's in a shopping priory esque clinic will diagnose it as 'want-itis' and i will be a 'wantling'. All i seem to do all day is want, want, want. A girl walks past and i like (read want) her bag, her boots and coat, until another girl walks past and i decide i'll mix and match 1st girls bag with her boots. It's a never ending cycle of want want want. And i'm getting sick of it.
I have a wardrobe full of clothes i hardly ever wear, shoes i never wear (damn high heels the make my soles burny!) and yet i have one empty savings account and one ISA with 0.12p (interest) in it.
I pledge from this day forward to stop unneccessary spending and not buy on a 'want whim' I promise to try and do things on the cheap and indulge in these so-called free activities..... purchasing a mocha and a muffin isn't classed as unneccesary spending is it?
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