Vacation Notes
Dear Friends,
Yesterday I “failed”. I spent money, on myself. I don’t mind spending money on friends or “cheating” by using a gift card but yesterday I blatantly pulled out my cash that has been sitting pretty for 23 days and willingly handed it over the counter.
For things I did not need. Well I mean I need food. But I had other options. I had healthier options. I didn’t HAVE to give that person my hard earned cash monies.
I had a mix of feelings about it too. For a minute I was really sad…then I ate it and I was so happy because I have more emotional ties to food than I want to realize. Then I was mad that I had come so close and thrown it out. But at the end of the day I’m not counting this month as null and void because I “failed”. Instead here’s what I learned….
- Food is up next month and I’m already freaking out about it. It’s made me want to break all the rules this last week to have all the things I won’t be partaking in next month. No Jody…if you don’t need them next month you also don’t need them this month.
- Once I opened that gate of spending money again it was so much easier throughout the rest of the day to say “well I could just go ahead and go buy that iPhone cord, it’s almost over.” No Jody…stick to the plan.
- I really love how much money I have saved. It helps that I had extra cash coming in from some side things this month (all legal, none involving tassels) so the amount I’ve saved is larger than it would have been on a normal month and that makes me really excited. It gets me a step closer to some financial goals – and hitting goals of any kind is so good for my heart. Discipline in one area encourages discipline in other areas.
- If I could do yesterday over again, I would have chosen differently. Not out of guilt, but out of knowledge. I would weigh my options better, make a wiser choice. In sum – emotional/hungry decisions rarely lead to wise decisions. I know this about myself so I need to safeguard myself from myself (aka I’m a bit cray cray)
- I can make it another week.
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