Comments on: Budget Leaks. Plug Up Those Holes Before You Drown. http://www.myplasectomy.com/2009/02/09/budget-leaks-plug-up-those-holes-before-you-drown/ Life After Plastic Thu, 22 Apr 2010 03:33:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: 444 http://www.myplasectomy.com/2009/02/09/budget-leaks-plug-up-those-holes-before-you-drown/comment-page-1/#comment-12 444 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:04:22 +0000 http://www.myplasectomy.com/?p=136#comment-12 Contrary to popular advice, we just scaled our cable bill UP a little.  But it's because we just don't go to movies (ever - OK,maybe once per year the kids go) and we just don't go anywhere - our restaurant usage has dwindled to zero - so I figure that if nights watching two or three particular shows on HBO that we are hooked on is our only real entertainment expense, It's OK to pay for.  It's definitely worth looking over the cable bill, though, to trim anything that you're mindlessly paying for without even using. We used to have a storage unit till I realized what a money drain it was.  It was a great feeling to stop paying that $140 per month, although it's not as great to have lots of junk in our apartment closing in on us.  But we need to sort and get rid of most of it, so we're doing what we should be doing instead of paying for 90% trash storage in perpetuity. I almost never contribute to stupid school fundraisers anymore (which go to line the pockets, indirectly, of the PTA bigwigs in our wealthy school district) and I'm a cheapass when it comes to sending in $5 here and there (I don't do it anymore) for this or that teacher's baby shower or end-of-year present.  Sounds harsh, but the 24-year-old teacher who lives with mom and dad (in this same wealthy neighborhood) really does not need my money to add to the Target giftcard the PTA ladies are going to buy her, and the woman probably getting three baby showers for her first baby really does not need me to contribute to a school-based baby shower for her.  We need our money here at home.  I sound like a grouchy old curmudgeon, don't I?  :oD Contrary to popular advice, we just scaled our cable bill UP a little.  But it’s because we just don’t go to movies (ever – OK,maybe once per year the kids go) and we just don’t go anywhere – our restaurant usage has dwindled to zero – so I figure that if nights watching two or three particular shows on HBO that we are hooked on is our only real entertainment expense, It’s OK to pay for.  It’s definitely worth looking over the cable bill, though, to trim anything that you’re mindlessly paying for without even using.

We used to have a storage unit till I realized what a money drain it was.  It was a great feeling to stop paying that $140 per month, although it’s not as great to have lots of junk in our apartment closing in on us.  But we need to sort and get rid of most of it, so we’re doing what we should be doing instead of paying for 90% trash storage in perpetuity.

I almost never contribute to stupid school fundraisers anymore (which go to line the pockets, indirectly, of the PTA bigwigs in our wealthy school district) and I’m a cheapass when it comes to sending in $5 here and there (I don’t do it anymore) for this or that teacher’s baby shower or end-of-year present.  Sounds harsh, but the 24-year-old teacher who lives with mom and dad (in this same wealthy neighborhood) really does not need my money to add to the Target giftcard the PTA ladies are going to buy her, and the woman probably getting three baby showers for her first baby really does not need me to contribute to a school-based baby shower for her.  We need our money here at home.  I sound like a grouchy old curmudgeon, don’t I?  :o D

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