WK6

 

When it comes to spending money, I’m certainly one of the most irresponsible people in my friend group. I always end up buying something stupid that I don’t need despite the price tag and despite my friends telling me not to buy that just because “it looks cool…”

First signs of my problem occurred about one year ago. I was with my friends in a mall and we were just hanging out, noting special, but at one moment I caught with a corner of my eye something that blew my mind at the time. At one of the stands I saw a knife, and not any regular knife, a completely useless knife. That knife cost me half of my savings, and all because I thought it looked unusual. It can’t be used for cutting or slicing, and it was a complete waste of money. Now it just collects dust in my room, and I rarely ever pick it up from the shelf, but I guess it’s a okay conversation starter.

Second examples of my reckless spending are my glasses. The fact that I needed glasses gave me an opportunity to do something stupid. I spent more than double the amount of money that was necessary on my glasses just because the rim looked cool. There were a couple of other designs that didn’t differentiate to much from the ones I picked, and those designs were a lot cheaper, but I chose the expensive one for no good reason.

The final example of my problem is my deodorant. I have been buying the same deodorant for 3 years just because I think the bottle looks nice. There is no other reason really, and to add salt to the wound, I’m not a huge fan of the smell, I just like the bottle. The bottle is mat black with some gold details. I think that the amount of money that I spent on that deodorant surpasses my two previous examples by a mile.

In conclusion I think that everybody has this problem, it’s just depends on how big it is from one person to the other one. Personally I don’t thinks that this is a huge problem for a person just as long some boundaries exist. My boundaries are my friends that have prevented so many dumb purchases and I’m thankful for them. If it weren’t for them I would probably be homeless by now.