Needless Expense Check-In #1
I’m starting a new feature here on PiggyBank, and YOUUUuuuuu are a witness to the very first… Needless Expense Check-In. Please, please. Hold your applause until after the program.
Here’s how we’re gonna do this: go get your bank statement. That’s right, go on and dig its ashes out of the fireplace. This is going to hurt me as much as it’s going to hurt you. Okay. How much money did you spend last month that you really didn’t have to? I’m not talking about buying that iPhone that you reallyreally wanted that was reallyreally out of your budget. I mean money you spent that went absolutely nowhere. My own transgressions are below the cut.
- Bought a regular-sized latte at Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf instead of my usual small and only drank about half of it. Shoulda bought a small. That’s somewhere around $0.50 I lost.
- Ordered a one-year registration for two domain names with privacy protection and later realized those domains were kinda lame. Ouch. That’s, like, $40.
- Purchased an extra-large container of strawberries because, hey, I like strawberries. I ate about half of them, forgot the rest were there, and they molded. Boo. $2.00 all gross and fuzzy.
- Bought a wedge of Brie. Never ate it. It isn’t cheese anymore. Goodbye $8.99.
- Bought a prepaid mailer for an online photo-developing service. Decided I’d rather stick with Snapfish. I’ll probably never use the other one - they don’t have the features I want. The mailer’s well-designed, though, I’ll give them that. $3.99 lost forever.
Total damage round-up: $60. Yikes.
Oh well. We’ll all do better next time, right? How did you fair?
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