My unbreakable addiction...
I have a problem.I am engrossed in consumer culture. And I am poor. Not poor because I don't make money; poor because I waste money.
Let us take, for example, my earnings from last semester. I worked at an engineering company the whole semester (16 weeks), 42 hours/week (give or take), and made $15/hour. (I also worked at a video game store in December, minimum wage, about 8 hrs/week.) You can calculate it if you want to.
Guess how much money I ended the semester with? About $1200. Doesn't that make you sick? It makes me sick. I don't live in an extravagant apartment (on the contrary, I live in the ghetto), I carpooled with my friends to work so gas wasn't horrible, and utilities weren't horribly high.
So where did all my money go? Clothes. Video games. CDs. DVDs. Going out to eat EVERY DAY. It's horrible. All because I feel the need to spend what I earn, instead of thinking ahead and saving what I earn. Honestly, I'm only 21, but I need to think about retirement. But more importantly and closer, paying for school, paying my rent, and keeping my car running. Or paying for anything important that might come up (endless doctor visits for my knee, randomly getting sick, my stupid brain problem).
I think I need a budget. I've never tried it, but people that use them (in whatever method necessary) seem to be doing better off pretty quickly. It might be easier to do a budget this spring, since I'll go back down to making $8.50, 20 hours a week as a tutor, plus the video game store. Not making much money = not spending much money. So... cheers to that.
[Side note: this was NOT my New Year's resolution. I had to stop my resolution by order of my orthopedic doctor.]
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