When the Cat is away ...
the mouse will stay at home and not go out for wings and beer with his friends.
My wife is leaving out of town for a few days on a business trip. The good news is that everything she does will be considered a business expense. The bad news is I am missing my partner in money savings. I have made a deal with myself to keep busy while she is gone so I don't go out with the boys. They aren't bad, but our MO is to drink, eat and stay out late. Especially since my best friend is going through a divorce. He has reverted back to our college days - going out late and, yes, spending lots of money. While I don't envy him, the reminiscing is quite nice. He owns his own business so showing up late or hungover isn't questioned. Even though he has been taunting me non stop for the last few days I have preservered and told him no. I offered for him to come over to the house to watch a game, grill some chicken and drink a beer.
Another good reason to be cheap (I mean frugal) is that my in-laws are coming into town on Friday. We tend to spend quite a bit of money when they are in town. This is mostly due to pride. I refuse to let them pay for everything. They are comfortable with money, but they are a "look what I bought you, so now do what I want you to do" kind of in-laws. The last straw was the wedding gift incident. Maybe I should thank them - it was that incident that made me become extremely focused on money management / PF.
Oh, one note to PF is that I set up our account on Microsoft Money last night. I thought I needed a finance degree to get it going. I made it, but it took longer than I expected. I couldn't get the account balances to work out. I do hope that this tool will help. I know there is a lot of functions that I am not familiar with, but I will definitely get into it.
Also, life goals are WIP. I created a "life goals" list while being delayed at BWI a couple of Fridays ago. Not just financial, but personally, socially and physically. It was pretty insightful. I know as I get older it will shift and change, but it gives me something to strive for. It gives me a purpose for things like books, vacations or leisure activities. I am looking into organizing them and putting them on a time line or priority/importance catagory. I am encouraging my wife to do the same. Eventually, we will also be able to create a common list we want to achieve as a family. Some people may argue that we should only have one, but we are firm believers in having individual lifes that we share with each other.
My wife is leaving out of town for a few days on a business trip. The good news is that everything she does will be considered a business expense. The bad news is I am missing my partner in money savings. I have made a deal with myself to keep busy while she is gone so I don't go out with the boys. They aren't bad, but our MO is to drink, eat and stay out late. Especially since my best friend is going through a divorce. He has reverted back to our college days - going out late and, yes, spending lots of money. While I don't envy him, the reminiscing is quite nice. He owns his own business so showing up late or hungover isn't questioned. Even though he has been taunting me non stop for the last few days I have preservered and told him no. I offered for him to come over to the house to watch a game, grill some chicken and drink a beer.
Another good reason to be cheap (I mean frugal) is that my in-laws are coming into town on Friday. We tend to spend quite a bit of money when they are in town. This is mostly due to pride. I refuse to let them pay for everything. They are comfortable with money, but they are a "look what I bought you, so now do what I want you to do" kind of in-laws. The last straw was the wedding gift incident. Maybe I should thank them - it was that incident that made me become extremely focused on money management / PF.
Oh, one note to PF is that I set up our account on Microsoft Money last night. I thought I needed a finance degree to get it going. I made it, but it took longer than I expected. I couldn't get the account balances to work out. I do hope that this tool will help. I know there is a lot of functions that I am not familiar with, but I will definitely get into it.
Also, life goals are WIP. I created a "life goals" list while being delayed at BWI a couple of Fridays ago. Not just financial, but personally, socially and physically. It was pretty insightful. I know as I get older it will shift and change, but it gives me something to strive for. It gives me a purpose for things like books, vacations or leisure activities. I am looking into organizing them and putting them on a time line or priority/importance catagory. I am encouraging my wife to do the same. Eventually, we will also be able to create a common list we want to achieve as a family. Some people may argue that we should only have one, but we are firm believers in having individual lifes that we share with each other.
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