When You Should Just Say No
You can't really rip your partner for spending $10 for chips and a soda for lunch (deathly poisons put out by Conagra Foods, don't get me started), when you can't seem to put the brakes on your spending habits. This is from a letter I sent to my fiance at work letting him know there would be a few less dollars in the bank because of my love of office supples:
How much do you love me? Okay it happened like this.First, I went to Office Depot. And everything was good. There were office supplies. I was happy. I was surveying the vast array of pens. I had gone there for a calendar. And it seemed like it was going to be a good day. I just needed a calendar. Nevermind that I forgot you said you would print me one out. I know you didn't have time to yesterday, or for the last week or whatever. Because I didn't have a calendar to remind me I had forgotten. Not casting blame. I'm just saying. So, I'm looking at the calendars and I realize that I need an addressbook soI start looking for that. And I realize how much I miss my Palm. And how much I miss my Franklin planner that I could never quite get together. And I start feeling depressed. Because I keep forgetting my appointments. And I think to myself that I'll just get a day planner, the cheap ones, but the cheap ones are like $18 and there aren't two pages a day andI can't find one that has an address book. And I'm mulling all these over and I'm talking out loud to myself and my dad is with me and I start talking about the planner I got for Jess for $15 and now it's like$30 and you still need the refill and my dad starts saying, " Just buy it," and I try to think of ways that I could reconstruct the whole thing myself for cheaper because I'm all about doing things from scratch and ghetto style, etc. and I remember the time I tried to do that and it wound up being this huge notebook that I couldn't take anywhere because it was too big and it wound up costing like $70, no REALLY, that's how much it was when I bought all the notebook size inserts I needed. So I brokedown and bought the organizer, the one you wanted me to have in the first place for $30......but next monthI'll still have to buy the pack for the whole year.
How much do you love me? Okay it happened like this.First, I went to Office Depot. And everything was good. There were office supplies. I was happy. I was surveying the vast array of pens. I had gone there for a calendar. And it seemed like it was going to be a good day. I just needed a calendar. Nevermind that I forgot you said you would print me one out. I know you didn't have time to yesterday, or for the last week or whatever. Because I didn't have a calendar to remind me I had forgotten. Not casting blame. I'm just saying. So, I'm looking at the calendars and I realize that I need an addressbook soI start looking for that. And I realize how much I miss my Palm. And how much I miss my Franklin planner that I could never quite get together. And I start feeling depressed. Because I keep forgetting my appointments. And I think to myself that I'll just get a day planner, the cheap ones, but the cheap ones are like $18 and there aren't two pages a day andI can't find one that has an address book. And I'm mulling all these over and I'm talking out loud to myself and my dad is with me and I start talking about the planner I got for Jess for $15 and now it's like$30 and you still need the refill and my dad starts saying, " Just buy it," and I try to think of ways that I could reconstruct the whole thing myself for cheaper because I'm all about doing things from scratch and ghetto style, etc. and I remember the time I tried to do that and it wound up being this huge notebook that I couldn't take anywhere because it was too big and it wound up costing like $70, no REALLY, that's how much it was when I bought all the notebook size inserts I needed. So I brokedown and bought the organizer, the one you wanted me to have in the first place for $30......but next monthI'll still have to buy the pack for the whole year.
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