My Journey From Debt

Well, as I reported before, I had a little bit of money in my checking account that wasn’t spent before I got it. It was nice to have a little bit of breathing room and I also took advantage of the opportunity and spent some of it on some stuff that I didn’t really need. In some ways I kinda feel almost irresponsible because of it, but at the same time I haven’t really spent money on random stuff for quite some time.

Since I last posted here, I have spent $43.51 at Wal-Mart and bought some batteries, two bags of chips, a couple of things for the kitchen, and some toilet paper. There were a couple of other smaller random things in there as well, but all-in-all it was not a huge amount and it was all things that while not necessary will be used. I also spent $29.67 at Target on some entertainment, there were a couple of movies that were on sale that I have been wanting to get and I also bought a Wii steering wheel to use when playing Mario Kart with friends.

Finally, I am becoming more involved with my electronics lately and spent $61.48 at the local Radio Shack. I have made a couple of different purchases there and it did total up to more than I was expecting to spend on the couple of small projects that I am working on, but I also replenished my supply of resistors and diodes as well as purchased a new breadboard (used for testing and prototyping circuits before building) so looking back on it I don’t feel too horrible.

The worst thing about all of this frivolous spending is that it really starts to add up if your not careful! I have realized a couple of additional parts I am going to need to finish up one of my projects so I foresee another trip to Radio Shack in the fairly near future, but other than that I am thinking that my frivolous spending should be done for awhile. Also, since I am more caught up on everything now I should be able to just go out and get these types of things (well, except the Target trip) as the need arises instead of spending $134.66 all in one week so it will be much more spread out and not as big of a hit to the accounts.

In the positive category, however, I received a 1 penny deposit into my checking account as an interest payment. It’s not much, but nice to know that the bank wants to give me money just for using their services and doing what I normally would with my meager amount of money. Oh, and it’s payday this week too and I will have some bill paying to do that you will see posted about probably next weekend.