Spending and Boredom
Young And Broke has a great post about it. I can’t say it any better.
Malls are bad and I avoid them. Though I used to eat at a mall food court 3-4x a week at my last job, I rarely wandered the rest of the mall to walk off the calories. That’s just asking for trouble. Thank god my taste dictates Forever 21 and H&M off limits. Sometimes I see really cute stuff, but I fight the urge.
Cure your boredom! Best advice given. I read and knit a lot. I do spend a lot on yarn, but I buy yarn in lieu of beer, meals on the town, travel to far off lands, TV, DVD, MP3’s, makeup, shoes, jewelry. I am not bored. If I am, I know I can usually find a knitting group meeting somewhere in the DC metro area on any given night of the week. In fact, I’m usually double or triple booked for Wednesday nights.
I can break out my spinning wheel and turn on public radio for a few hours. (Old broadcasts of The Diane Rehm Showare my favorite to turn on.) I blog. I blog all night sometimes! Sometimes when I’m bored and see what a mess my apartment is, I clean it. Yes, I clean it because I am bored.
Ennui… Isn’t that why Madame Bovary had an affair in the first place? The girl should have stuck to her knitting instead.
Mapgirl’s Fiscal Challenge / 2006 Budget Overview - The GOOD wrote:
[…] My crack habit, er, excuse me, my YARN habit was under budget by ~$100.00. Thank god I quit my second job at the crack house, i.e. yarn shop. I spent most of my budget in two purchases during their annual clearance sale at the beginning of the year. I think I realized what I was doing and made sure not to buy anything else unless I REALLY needed it. Now I don’t feel so bad buying high quality kid mohair as a year-end gift to myself. […]
Posted on 27-Dec-06 at 2:28 pm | Permalink