how to fail miserably at pennypinching… episode 1
1. be in boston during restaurant week. spend $50 bucks on the most amazing fondue dinner of your life with 2 good friends. repeat on multiple days, spending between $30 and $50 on dinner at different swanky restaurants.
2. invite friends over to spend the weekend and show them the local color by taking them to all of your favorite restaurants and haunts - bartley’s burgers ($11), j.p. licks ice cream ($10 total), finale ($11), etc etc.
3. go outside in hot weather. ice cream buying goes up exponentially as temperature increases by one degree.
4. indulge in back to school shopping at aldo, urban outfitters, h&m, etc. convince yourself that you’re saving money by spending $40 on shoes that would’ve cost $200 total if you had bought them at full price (although you wouldn’t even have considered buying them at full price).
5. listen to friendly book recommendations and buy books. feel happy and fulfilled but have lighter pockets. my purchase - the fountainhead, by ayn rand.
6. use public transportation constantly.
7. convince yourself that in order to avoid #6, you should not return your ridiculously overdue books to the library. incur embarrassingly high fines.
8. spend too much time on the computer. more computer time = more grazing on yummy snacks = having to buy more groceries.
9. be overly kind when guests visit and volunteer to pay for things you can’t really afford for them…
10. stay awake past 2am. impulse online shopping gets pretty bad between the hours of 2am and 7am.
