I espoused the benefits from being thrifty in the last entry. But as with anything else, there is not so much a breaking point as there is a point of weakness; the exception to the rule.
I exercised some guts and moxie a few days ago in going to the one place I will spend everything on: Bed, Bath & Beyond.
Mind you, I had just received my (weak) paycheck and had money in tow. Everyone here knows about my like for that store and let me go in on one condition: that the roommate handle my money so I wouldn't go spending. Well, there's no logic in that, since I still have yet to see $100 he borrowed from me two months ago. We were headed to Best Buy to look for a printer, and I to look for a simulation game I've been eyeing for years (and is obviously out of circulation: Airport Tycoon.
No luck in either, but my roommate wanted to see for himself what BB&B was like, so we went inside. I was amazed by the tracks we were covering. We got thru the first half of the store in less than five minutes, and were literally running through the back end of the store, thinking this might not result in a pocketbook hit after all.
Then we hit the picture frame department. Oops.
Three figures later, I was walking out of there with three real nice pictures for the living room, allbeit with looks from the roommate because I couldn't resist them. Walk into my living room and you'll see over $400 in new art I've picked up since 2004. Give me some credit, though... it's my first visit there since that 2004 day, so you can say I have displayed some control over that weakness.
Then we get home and the thought turns to birthday presents for a girl I know at work, and I talk about the used styrofoam cup I saw in the break room yesterday. We laugh and the cycle starts all over again. Call me a hypocrite, but when you've been a good soldier like I have at work all week, what's wrong with some play mixed in with the work?
