Traveling Thoughts

So I don’t know what brought it up, it may have been the fact that I’ve got a total of 8 vacations planned so far for 2008 or how I needed something new for my bike, or perhaps it was when we were talking about how Grams wants to finally retire. I don’t know. But Mom said that Dad was bragging about his girls and that he said that I was so froogle with my money, Mom blurted out “no she’s not, she’s a spendaholic and she needs to cool it or she’s going to end up in spenders anonymous or something”

She was telling me about this and I laughed, the sad thing is, she’s right. I was all proud of myself that I had only had 2 tall chai tea lattes this week from Starbucks and that I had only bought 2 books this week. I have a spending problem. I spend. I have money and I spend. I don’t have money and I spend (which is rare because I always have money). I’m a spender…but if I want to be going places, I can’t be spending the way I spend. It’s bad…very very bad.

Out of curiosity, I Googled spenders anonymous, and sure enough, there’s a 12 step program. I don’t like step 1.

1) We admitted we were powerless over spending and money and that our lives had become unmanageable.

My life has not become unmanageable, I have money and I spend it. It’s not like I don’t have money…