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.

Comments (1) left to “Spending and Boredom”

  1. 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. […]

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