Money Tree, We Need Those!

This post is my entry for 20SB Blog Carnival. We basically have to answer this question : How do you friends and others affect your choices regarding money?

Tough.

I'm simply the last person you should ask for saving tips. I splurge. I make unnecessary spending. A lot. I read blogs with people giving detailed information on how much money they spend or save each week and how they have thorough financial plan and holy shiz, talking about embarrassed.

My friends definitely affect my choice in spending seeing that I'm not married or with kids, so I don't have to support anybody yet. I love hanging out with my friends, and hanging out needs money, right? Some friends affect me more than others. Because I might just go out to eat /drink with a group of people and with different groups? We might go to the movies too. We might go to bars/clubs, go to salon for beauty treatment, and hey check out those cute dresses displayed on the boutique window - they look hot! Shall we try? Oh they look good, we should buy those.

Hung head in shame, people.

Before I know how it feels to really work, by work I mean my now-daily work instead of my fun work rapping and let my inner superstar comes out (haha), my dad practically went nuts seeing my bills every month. Yes, I was that spoiled chick you love to hate. My dad used to pay for almost all of my stuff, even when I was in college. His monthly hobby was screaming at me, asking me whether I really need a 300 dollars dress that I only wear once or a new pair of black heels when I already have a bunch in my shoe closet. Speaking of stupid spending, there's also an eyelash extension, which only lasted for a week. Total rip-off.

I'm happy to say that working has made me less reckless. Especially working at my current office, where you'll be LUCKY if you just get off work at past 9 pm and not past midnight. Don't get me wrong, I love my job but I've experienced dizziness, sore muscles, fever, and a few heavy migraines here so for all those sacrifices, I would be reluctant to spend any of my sweet salary on unnecessary stuff.

By unnecessary stuff, I totally mean one of those bedazzled Hello Kitty blackberry cover. Cute, yes, but for 250 dollars, wouldn't it be better if you save it so later you can buy something cooler and more important like a new flashy laptop or I don't know, a weekend trip to Hongkong?

However, I also wouldn't say I've made smarter choices already. There are still times that I will most certainly spend. As I told you before, I love hanging out. I will almost always accept fun invitations from my friends to meet them for anything. But I figure now I can be smarter if they ask me to go shopping with them. I'll definitely try not to buy random stuff just because they're cute. I went out with a friend today to a huge Mango sale. SO MANY CUTE STUFF. If I followed my impulse, you bet I'd go out of the store with a bunch of shopping bags totally regretting everything when I got home. But NOPE. I didn't buy anything. Sure it took me to leave the store for a bit to do a little breathing exercise and calm my heart beat but I DID NOT buy anything.

Yay me.

Thank goodness it wasn't a shoe sale. I would have a panic attack before I force myself to go out of the store and do breathing exercise.

What's the one thing you must splurge on?





ps. My score for Charles Schwab Financial Fitness Quiz is 57. Woops. I need to change my habit.