One of my guilty pleasures is “online window shopping.” No, not looking to buy windows, but rather, browsing websites just to look at things that I know I can’t afford and don’t need – at least not right now. Sometimes I look at furniture, other times it’s fun jewelry, sometimes it’s art, and sometimes it’s …
While I would like to call myself a bargain hunter, I freely admit that I am really bad at it. When big department stores have sales where there are a bunch of sale racks pushed together with many different types of clothing, often arranged by size rather than by style, I can’t cope. I try …
When I lived in St. Louis, I was obsessive about coupon clipping. Mainly because I subscribed to the Sunday paper. But I quickly realized that while I was using the paper for coupons, I was never actually reading the paper, so it started to feel like a waste. The papers would start to pile up …
In the past month or so, my budget has been an additional source of stress that I really didn’t need. I was over budget in a number of categories, while still trying to work on that YNAB concept of living on last month’s income. Things were clearly not going well. I had also realized that …
Yesterday, I went on a bit of a spending binge. At least, I definitely felt like I was going out and being “bad” with my finances. I haven’t been shopping for non-necessities since early January, and I have definitely been feeling the pinch. I have a list of things that I want/need to buy when …