We finished watching the movie, and I'll be honest. I loved it. If not for the sheer fact that on some level I could identify with it and on the other being thankful for the awareness to recognize it as well.

Shopping isn't quite so much my thing. Clothes, no.

Cars, eh... I'd like to say no - but 15 cars in 10 years of marriage says otherwise. I think we've curbed that. No car purchases since January 28, 2008. We've even done our own maintenance on our paid off (although that is not entirely true, the debt was restructured into my student loan - but we do hold title to the vehicle) 6 year old car. If DH keeps his car past January 2010, it will be the longest we've ever owned one car (3 years).

Home stuff... THERE is my fault. Ok, and skincare. I love Clinique. I did stop highlighting my hair. I've been back to my roots for a year & love how healthy and shiny my hair is. I get it cut maybe 3-4 times a year for $25/each time. I tried one of the bargain salons & ended up just spending more money to get a stylist to fix a bad cut.

But anyhow. Thats my fault, things around the house.

Its not any ONE thing. Its seeing things break around the house & thinking what I have needs to be replaced.

Case in point:

Our desktop is 5 years old, 3.2 GHz, 512 RAM but its slow as ever and keeps saying I don't have memory space. My laptop is 2.1 GHz, and I don't know the number of RAM but its only 2 years old and is so loud now that you can hear it on the phone.

I browsed online all day looking for a new computer to replace them both. Consolidate them down into one. I thought since I was price comparing THAT was at least a step in the right direction vs the $3K and $2K I initially spent on the computers.

DH came home and off to the store we went.

But as I was getting in the car, I had a feeling come over me. That feeling of - I don't really NEED a new computer. Yes, I work from home and if I absolutely NEED one my work gives me a $1200/year office allowance so I can always buy a computer with that money, but my computers both work fine. A little slow, but they work - no viruses.

And I'm always talking about how I want to spend less time on the computer. I'll admit it, I'm addicted to being on the computer - but when you work on one, that makes it a little bit more challenging to just "stop". But thats when I realized, going from 2 old computers to 1 NEW computer is not going to make me get on the computer less. If anything, it'll put me more into debt and I'll probably want to be on the computer MORE because it'll be fast and new.

No. We didn't buy a computer. I just didn't quite see the necessity after I put it into perspective like that.

But I did buy SOMETHING today. After dinner I was craving something sweet so I took my oldest to the grocery store with me.

I walked up and down the aisles price comparing cookies, brownies, cupcakes, then cake mixes to premade cakes. Ugh! I wanted convenience but convenience OBVIOUSLY costed $10 more.

SO we bought cinnamon rolls that you had to bake in the oven. Sort of convenience because it could be done in 15 minutes, but at $2.97 was a bit better than $4.97 for 6 cupcakes. We also bought some mix to bake a German Chocolate Cake later. I think total it was $6.22

And while I'm on this confession kick, as I was checking out my daughter asked if we could by a lottery ticket. There was this new Corvette scratcher & DH LOVES Corvettes, so I let her get a $5 one.

I don't carry cash on me so I asked the customer service guy if he could give me cash back from my debit card so I could buy the scratcher for my daughter to give to DH. He said I'd have to buy something & behind him was a bunch of cigarettes, and I don't smoke. So I told him to just put $5.00 on the lottery and give me another $5 for the scratcher.

Sooo plus side... I didn't buy a $1250 desktop, I decided I didn't need a new computer

Downside... I spent $16.22

BUT... it was on my debit card, so I only spent money I had. And the sweets can't be entirely bad, nor do I really think the scratcher was (No he didn't win anything). The sweets we had to bake together as a family, the Corvette scratcher was something that reminded me of DH - not cause I actually thought I'd win - and well, the lottery. Well... ok, perhaps I'm rationalizing the scratcher and the lottery ticket

But really, I think if I knew I was going to falter in some way - I'd choose the $16.22 over the $1,250 ANY DAY.

Wish me luck tomorrow. Our tenants are vacating the place so we're doing our move out inspection & on Monday the plumbers will start work to replumb the house and get the old plumbing out.

But I'm feeling really good about it all Some of the comments you guys have left the past few blog entries have resonated with me so much & brought me back. I'd fallen off the saving wagon for awhile but the comments and inspiration this place has provided in the past few days have inspired me & I know I'm getting back on track. So... THANK YOU!