I suck at spending money. I have an innate aversion to letting go of hard earned funds. It’s not like we’re destitute, Michelle and I have good incomes coming in especially Michelle. House is paid off as well as all our vehicles. Only one kid left in college with a year to go and Cam has a huge scholarship that covers the majority of it. There’s a lump of money set aside to cover all our expenses for a year if something untoward happened. We have good retirement investments and building up more of that every year. Travel funds and discretionary money is looking good and available. We are actually sitting pretty when it’s all tallied up.
I hate spending money.
I can do it but it takes a lot of himming and hawing to get me to hit that checkout button. I guess growing up a poor woods rat and knowing how much work, blood and effort it took to build those funds hasn’t left my psyche despite being in a completely different financial place these days. Right now I have a set of sliders for the Tacoma in an internet cart that have been there for 4 days and I just can’t hit that button. Ugh.
“I might need those funds for something more important...I don’t know what but it could happen” my mind tells me. Tricky bastard that brain of mine. Anybody else suffer from this malady?
I hate spending money.
I can do it but it takes a lot of himming and hawing to get me to hit that checkout button. I guess growing up a poor woods rat and knowing how much work, blood and effort it took to build those funds hasn’t left my psyche despite being in a completely different financial place these days. Right now I have a set of sliders for the Tacoma in an internet cart that have been there for 4 days and I just can’t hit that button. Ugh.
“I might need those funds for something more important...I don’t know what but it could happen” my mind tells me. Tricky bastard that brain of mine. Anybody else suffer from this malady?