“Mom! We’re going to Wal Mart to buy a remote control monster truck!” Curt squealed as we loaded the car.
“Well that’s odd,” I glared at my husband, “Since we’re supposed to be in the mid
dle of 30 Days of Nothing.”
At which point, I launched into a lecture about remote control monster trucks, how we trashed one of them this past summer, how another one languishes in the toy box and how the plastic pieces of garbage are just a ploy to suck consumers in to buying overpriced batteries.
“Curt, you’re not getting a monster truck,” my husband declared.
We’d already slipped that morning, having traveled to the city to buy my husband’s work shoes. We’d put it off as long as we could, but it really was a necessity. We’d also broken down and allowed our kids to spend their newly-set allotment of candy money. We all have our addictions.
Clearly, our resolve is diminishing. We’ve discovered 30 days is a very long time.
But we have set some financial goals. Both Curtis and Deena have decided to spend no more than $1.50 per week on candy, will deposit $2 per month to the bank, and put $1 per month in the Unicef box on our counter.
My husband and I have committed to paying extra toward our mortgage every month, to work toward paying it off early. We’ll add to our giving, by contributing to community drives and sponsorships that would foster our kids’ participation, like buying for the food shelf, sponsoring a family’s Christmas, etc. And we’ve learned that by putting off impulse purchases, we often skip them entirely, because it turns out we don’t miss the thing we didn’t buy. So we’ll continue to limit our trips to the city. Period.
What are your financial goals?
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Day 1
Week 1
Week 2
30 Days of Gratitude
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