Money, money, money
I've decided it's time to get on top of savings. I took about $500 out
of savings recently, and am a bit dismayed that I might not be able to
replace it. (Very hard when I'm not reaaaaally employed at the moment.)
I wanted to replace it and put some extra in as well, but looking at a
list of things I need to be buying in the next two months:
- $160 Nth Melbourne Membership
- New mobile phone (which I suppose I could pass on until my current phone *really* dies)
- Spate of expensive present-obligated birthdays
- Jeans (which I suppose could wait til winter)
- Contact lenses
An idle coffee I don't really need, for example. More often than not, having coffee out is just a social thing. I have a coffee because I'm with someone who dies without coffee and we'll sit and have coffee together. I enjoy coffee, but I never notice any effect on me, save an enjoyment of the taste and something warm. $3 here and there will soon add up. Just gotta make sure to carry water around with me, without fail. Nothing annoys me more than having to buy water with a meal.
Also, it's increasingly clear to me that when eating out, food portions can be ridiculously big. I can't leave food on my plate and justify it to the starving children haunting my imagination or to my hovering voice of my mother, so it's time to only be ordering entree sizes, and putting the difference in the crap jar.
I'd have to say, eating out is the cause of most of my money woes, and so much of it is social. It's not even about eating out, it's about catching up with the people I'm having dinner or lunch with. Time to find inexpensive catch-ups, but hmm, I can't really think of that much. If I had my own place, I'd cook at home with friends more often.
It's been freezing today- Mt Dandenong and a number of other places woke up to snow blanketed Christmas morning.
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Let me remind you that I am in Australia and it is SUMMER here.
I've spent most of the day relaxing and nibbling. Merry Christmas!
