The first step on the path to rehabilitation is admitting your faults.
So, to that end:
I'm an online shopaholic.
And despite my being 100% debt free, I have slowly been spending myself into financial disarray. At the rate I'm going, I am going to Paypal myself right into bankruptcy.
So I staged An Intervention. For myself.
I confessed my spending habits to my family and turned over my checkbook and debit card to a financial advisor (aka MY DAD). I will cancel my Amazon and Paypal accounts and spend cash when it's necessary to buy anything at all.
I don't expect it to be easy, and I'm sure there will be painful withdrawal symptoms. I can already feel nervous twitches and I'm dying to check my eBay Watch List one more time.
It's gonna be awful. But if I want to give myself any kind of financial stability, I have to serve my 28 days with dignity and integrity.
Starting Monday.
Ms. Mei Flower
- Mei
- I'm a spinster schoolmarm with a degree in English; I watch artsy movies about British people; I knit while watching the History Channel; I listen to NPR in the car; I eat frozen dinners on the couch. Is that stereotypical enough for you? No? Well, then ... and I have a cat.
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5 comments:
I admire your strength of conviction here. I am totally so not ready to give that stuff up... good luck!!
You are one brave woman!
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Totally not willing to give up my paypal and amazon. Although, I probably should.
Wow! Good for you that you understand the big picture.
thanks for the good thoughts ... it is a struggle but I am getting through. I'm thinking about taking up drinking though--trading one vice for another.
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