spending log - 2$ coffee & milk, 5$ tuna sandwich + sun chips
I was warming up for gym today, and I managed to work off about 110 calories, or one of those little mini almond joys I ate last night.
It got me thinking. Does shopping for things early really save you money? Take Halloween, for instance. If you buy your bags of candy early and on sale, what do you have? Bags of candy that will torment you and tempt you. You sneak eat one, two, several... and then you have to buy more bags of sale priced candy. Or worse, you think, geez do I have enough? Buying early gives you more time to second guess what you buy...and buy more "just in case".
I know that that's what happened to me for Christmas. I buy early and then I think "I like that...one for me and one as a gift." So suddenly you buy two, when you should buy one or none. Or you put your gifts in the super-secret hiding spot...so secret that you forgot where you put the gift...so you buy another gift. Or the gift that was a great idea in July, but you look at in November and think..."so six months ago." Or what if they have one already?
I know I'm an odd duck around here, but somehow I prefer to buy my gifts during the last 2-3 weeks before Christmas, buy them quickly, and mail them out. If I make some gifts like a jam or something - I make a couple dozen and of one thing and that's it. I probably spend a bit more, and sometimes I miss the deadline. (I have my line for this - C'mon, when do you really, really need a gift? Yep - not Christmas, but the second week of January.) But I don't buy the second gift. For me, the second guessing gets me in the end.
Call me scrooge.
Tonight, I finished the last 4 almond joys. Halloween 2006 is over. Thank G%d!
Shopping thoughts
November 8th, 2006 at 04:09 am
November 8th, 2006 at 04:34 am 1162960462
I am buying some of my stuff early - gift certs, cards, etc. I want to be done as much as possible by the first weekend of December.
I say this every year. You'd think it would happen one year wouldn't you?
November 8th, 2006 at 02:25 pm 1162995946
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