How do you curb your temptations?

[getforfree]

how can somebody be bored? My problem is that I don't have enough time. So there is no time to be bored.

When I have free time, I go online look for free stuff and other deels. I also get books from library about saving money.

[Haku]

Originally Posted by PrincessPerky

Neat information...have you thought of volunteering to cure boredom?

I volunteer for overtime.

(Sorry for the belated reply, but I almost missed that response.)

[Ima saver]

Haku, I have that same problem. I get very bored in the evenings and that is why I eat out everynight.
My problem is, when my husband is home at night, we spend all of our time together, always have and always will.
When he was younger, he would work late, 8 or 9 at night, so we had a late dinner. Now, he is older and tires quicker and is home by 6 pm.
All he wants to do is sit and rest and that means tv. I just can't sit and watch tv that much at night, so out of boredom. we go out to eat!

[David]

One way I deal with temptation is to calculate how many hours I will have to work to pay for the item I want. This is normally enough to make me not want it. Me being the bigger spender in the family, we really started making good progress toward living on less when I took over paying the regular bills. I saw first hand how fast the money goes. As long as I'm paying the bills, I get real frugal and try hard to hang on to the money. A simple thing, but that has been the number one thing to help us save more and reduce debt. We make a game of it. Trying to see how far a chicken can go etc. I guess I just said how boring we are. lol

[Thrifty Ray]

I do not go 'shopping' as a hobby anymore.

Honestly, my shopaholic mom thought I had grown a second head when I passed up a GREAT...'15% off sale at a major department store..."But think of all the things we are passing up" she said...

Yes, thats what's keeping me at home instead of in the stores.

I found, there is always 'something' I could pick up for a few dollars and for a 'great deal' if I went to the sales...However, those sales were what kept me in debt for years...and all those great deals that I couldnt pass up are now taking up space in my home...in my closets...and in my life.

When I finally realized this...and got my goals set....it was no longer an issue. No matter what the sale or bargain....if I don't need it, it is a waste of time and money...no matter how great the deal.

[boefixepa]

Time to be bored...what a concept. Maybe someday and I'm not even married or have children yet...if you don't count the pets. This is what I did this Saturday....granted I was really tired at the end of the day.

1. Up at seven and at Wal-mart working on the price book...didn't buy anything!!
2. Back at the house and started cleaning out the garage so I could install a drain tube on the water softner.
3. Garage cleaned and unneed items put out on the curb for the neighbors to take if they want...they have until trash day.
4. Install drain tube for water softner salt tank. Supplies purchaced a few months ago....Go to wal-mart...get 10 bags of salt....fill salt tank and watch the extra water run out the new tube rather than all over my garage floor!! (The reason it was shut off)
5. Crawl down into the crawl space and turn on water softner, come back up into garage and see where it is spraying water....go back down and turn water softner off....come up and take joint apart...see no broken parts. But it back together and go down and turn it on again. Come back up...no leak....problem fixed!! I have soft water again!!!
6. Put mice poison anywhere I can see evidence of mice activity.
7. But everthing back into the garage...make new hanger for the dog create and a few other things. Garage is now the best it has looked in about four years!!!
8. Tell myself not to stop and tackle replacing the outside water spigot that froze a few winter ago....no idea how to do that,....but I figure it out and do it. It was a process!! - about $35.00 too....but it works!!
9. Fix the gate where the lock had boken.
10. Made a new screen for the bay window...the dogs destroy it every year...so I'm really good at it now.
11. Rehang the clips that hold the cable that the dogs pulled down.
12. Install house hanger for the outside hose by the newly replaced spigot to water the bucket garden.
13. Fix the door bell.
14. Tighen the screw on the dog gate.
THAT'S ENOUGH! Took a shower and went to a friends new house.

I was going from 7 AM to 4 PM and the only thing I didn't do that needed to be done was change the light bulb at the back porch, but that can wait for another day!

Now I have to find the energy to do the same thing INSIDE my house.....there's no time to be bored!!

[Ima saver]

I don't go shopping as a fun thing anymore. I remember one trip we made with a couple to Gatlinburg about 25 years ago. We bought so much "stuff" we had to rent something to put on top of the car, a car carrier. Now, I wonder where all that stuff is?