Personal Finance Blogs - this is a topic that greatly interests me. More like peeping into some one's personal affairs. While I am not much into making more out of money, I am what you would call a wannabe frugal person. I make excel sheets upon excel sheets (various formulas included!!), not touch my salary for a few months, abhor shopping for a few weeks, till... I feel something so profound is missing from my life. And then all resolutions go down the drains. I purchase what ever comes to my mind and since I am a newly turned online shopper, there is no stopping me.
Well, coming back to Personal Finance Blogs, I like to read how people live day to day on x amount of money, save a whole lot and are well on their ways to becoming millionaires. I envy these people for their sheer determination, positive and can-do attitude. I often wish I was like that. I often wish I had some sense of direction or at least knew what my passion in life is.
Take this month for instance, I had saved up nearly £9,000 and then one fine day we decide to furnish our home and redo the stairway and living room and there goes £5,000. When I think of the money that we have unnecessarily wasted it pains me. Dear husband says that we have increased the equity on our home. That is fine to talk about, but when one has no intention of ever selling one's home, that sort of upgrade is generally useless.
When I see how my home looks right now, it makes me feel so good. But when I think of the money we have spent to get this look, it sort of dampens that feel good factor. I guess one has to make some sort of a compromise and the compromise that we have made is to spend money to get our home in good order. Let me put an end to this ranting.
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