Week 7

Financial confessions

My friend kept on complaining about crippling credit card debt, wandering around the house complaining that he is too poor to even buy groceries for himself. Five minutes later, he leaves the house and comes back with pet turtle and all the necessary items to make sure the turtle will thrive.

And a week later, he bought another turtle because he noticed that his pet turtle looks ‘lonely’ and not being ‘playful’. He spent more than $150 so his pet turtle won’t be lonely anymore and to have a playmate. Oh wait, not just that, he also bought some fish so his turtles will have ‘friends’.

He gets the card, immediately goes online and buys a ‘totally legit’ diamond necklace for his girlfriend, a guitar, and a spiderman, and all other super heroes costume because he wanted to be a “Super Heroes Costume Collector”. To add some spice, they broke up after a month.

Earl used to buy a few lottery scratch-off tickets here and there but since he got laid off it was like one a day. He liked the big $5 ones. One day he comes in, buys his coffee and a scratcher, and wins $250. He is completely convinced his luck has changed so he “reinvests” the $250 in more scratchers. He won $10, which he used to buy two more tickets, both of which were losers. That $250 could have gone pretty far towards paying bills, buying groceries, etc.

I come home one day and she announces to me how she bought a pair of $100 Lulu Lemon yoga pants. I told her she was an idiot because she doesn’t even do yoga let alone work out and what the heck was she thinking spending that much money on a single pair of pants when she can’t even afford to put gas in her car or pay her phone bill. The very next day she went back and bought a second pair.

Drunk me spent $86 on cocktails one night

Spent $x on tv ads roombas, ladder thing, cooking utensil

I’ve Spent At Least $10K On Failed Relationships”

This year, all told, I’ve spent nearly $3,000 on Instagram ($2,800 to be exact), in the interest of growing my “brand” and also, if I’m being honest, growing my ego

I knew a dude in high school that inherited around $50,000 after his grandfather died. He blew it all within 6 months by purchasing everything in excess. For example, when the new Call of Duty game came out, he bought 10 copies “just in case I break all the discs”.

He would buy extra furniture for their house and bought extra storage space to store this extra furniture. Not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed. After the money ran out he would attempt to get the group to help him pay for food.

They said I was a valued customer, now they send me hate mail

Remember shopping can be good exercise:

“I honestly feel as though I’ve run an obstacle course to get here. In fact, I think, they should list shopping as a cardiovascular activity. My heart never beats as fast as it does when I see a “reduced by 50 percent” sign.”

Once I turned 21, I started spending money on alcohol just because I could. Glass of wine at dinner? Why not? Beer at the pub between classes? Sure, because I can now. Plus, all you’re friends start turning 21 and you are obligated to buy them drinks all night and you wake up the next day with a $60 bar tab.

UGH the dumbest thing I’ve spent money on in college has to be when I went to visit my long distance boyfriend for about a week and forgot my bag with all of my shoes in it at home, so with only the shoes on my feet I went out and bought several pairs of shoes I already had (to go with my planned outfits naturally) so that I wouldn’t look dumb. I hate myself.” –Emily

Elaborate and skanky Halloween costumes that I wear once, and then never again. And yes, I did it this year, too.

Give a little page

Generic things to spend money on:

· Coffee
· Starbucks
· Candles
· Cushions
· Kmart
· Clothes
· Food
· Yoga pants
· Gym
· Alcohol
· Tinder premium
· Club penguin membership
· Buying things in apps
· Branded clothes
· I spent $200 eating burgers every night for two weeks
· Haircuts
· Chicken nuggets
· Buying lunch everyday
· Movie theatre snacks

Project title ideas:

It makes cents
Freedom fund
Penny party
Juice boosters
Powerplay
Expenny
A penny for your thoughts
Mission dollar
Ikigai “a reason for being” "thing that you live for" or "the reason for which you wake up in the morning.
Satori "seeing into one's true nature"
Autology
Revamp
Society / culture
Hustle