This is my life now - trying to make sure I'm getting the best deal on diapers, and groceries, and whatever else it is we need. However, I feel like I'm falling short and not getting the job done the best way possible! My mother is a great shopper - something us kids to this day still pick on her about - how is it I'm not the same way? I lived w/ her for how many years? You would think that I would have picked up something - but nope. I need the 'saving money wherever possible for dummies' book! This is one of my faults - not being organized enough, or planing enough. We have a need, or run out of something, I go get it - where as I think it would make more sense to be prepared, and know that we'll be running out of 1/2 & 1/2 tomorrow, I should probably get more - but we won't go grocery shopping till the end of the week, which means I'll be spending more than I should on creamer. Things add up! Little things like this add up, and now that I'm down to 1 diaper,I can't order them online, and will have to do the best w/ what I have. All this could have been avoided if I had just spent a little more time, planing, and being prepared! I want to be that person - the one thats organized, and makes life a little easier for her self! - but I'm not, just like I'm not that girl you pass on the street that smells so sweet, and looks nice and put together. . . . Some things just aren't in the cards. Now that I recognize what I want to be, and how I want to live, I can do something about it . . . right? : )
I think it stems from being the generation that grew up with credit cards. Credit cards caused a shift in time preference, or rather shifted us from delayed gratification to instant. The credit card eliminated the need for money, for physical cash. You don't feel your money disappearing when a piece of plastic is swiped but you do when you hand the physical money over. Thus it enabled the impetuous desires to satiate ourselves immediately rather than wait and shop around and be smart with our limited resources. Without credit cards how many would really buy a Louis Vuitton purse for $500? I don't know many people who if having to handle the physical cash over would feel fine dropping twenty-five $20 bills down for a simple consumer good.
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