Significant purchases

When I think about a significant purchase, I think $50. We would have to talk about it or least know that we have the money or in the past, know that we had a place on the credit card for it. So even though it is a low number, it was still kinda high for us.

My biggest problem is "treating myself" We like to go to the movies or out to eat oh and art stuff. I am really good at treating myself to those items and I can justify it real easy. It is still a real problem for me. I start calculating in my head, okay I have ___ in the account and its so many days till payday or my next big job. Which is hilarious, cause when I see a math book I get all paranoid and sieze up... "I can't do math" "I am just not a math person". But if I want to buy something, I sure can whip up some figures in a flash.

Since our new expedition in the financial responsibility world, about the only success I can really claim is that I have come across an excellent deal on a kiln, and though I REALLY WANT ONE! and I can make ware to sell and make up for the cost of it and make the money back fairly quickly, and the money is in the EMERGENCY fund... I have not given in. Instead I am selling the boat in hopes of raising the money to buy one for cash.

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