What is your saving demon?

[Tree0164]

Re: What is your saving demon?

Eating out and scrapbooking supplies.

[PrincessPerky]

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Deamons - Do I have to pick just one?

Crock cooking, I don't like meat so well cooked, but I do like soups in the crock, and I am guessing there would be leftovers, so you have a couple meals of soup per prep.

I tend to prefer the creamy kind (potato) so I have to stick a hand blender in at the end, but if you don't mind mushy vegetables the broth based kind works pretty well.

[shengmei]

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Half of my income after tuition and rent goes to my five cats.

I love them. I can't afford them.

[robex]

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Before kids my demon was definately clothes! Now, it's food. I love grocery shopping because it's the one time I can spend money and I don't feel guilty--we have to eat, right?

[sonj]

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Wal-Mart, is my savings demon. I have been working on limiting my visits to once a week.

[kashi]

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Crafty things and books/magazines/newspapers. Also, comparing prices for things online and finding the best deal on something I really don't need but buy anyway.

[BAGAGT1]

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Computer/Electronics are my demons. My wife and I are both geeky so when we both want something it is difficult for either of us to say no.

[rob62521]

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I would recommend googling either crock pot recipes or slow cooker recipes. There are quite a few out there and some have some good ideas for meals on a budget.

[TBH]

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I love grocery shopping because it's the one time I can spend money and I don't feel guilty--we have to eat, right?

Yes! And the grocery store is often my only chance to be alone, and to hang out in air conditioning. So I find excuses to prolong the shopping trip. I go shopping a few times a week, which I know makes it easy to spend too much. And I should buy less prepared foods, and those candy bars at the register really add up, and that coffee-shop visit just to get out of the house on the days I'm home with DS.

The other big one is travelling. Family all lives far away, and I have itchy feet. Hard for me to stay home for more than a few months at a time. Plus, when I'm travelling I spend more money on misc. crap. Just went to the midwest for a weekend and bought $20 of toys for DS that he doesn't need. The kid has enough trains and tractors, dammit, but I wanted something to entertain him on the plane, and they were so cute.....

[shengmei]

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Trains and tractors stay good for at least ten years, though...

Even adults like to play with trains and tractors.

[CRFSaver]

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Computer/Electronics are my demons. My wife and I are both geeky so when we both want something it is difficult for either of us to say no.

Notice we never want cheap stuff either? I never knew being a geek would be this expensive...

[TBH]

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Even adults like to play with trains and tractors.

This is exactly my problem.
I never played with this stuff when I was a kid, but now I love it. He has the cutest little dumptrucks and pickup trucks and front loaders and back hoes. He has too much of it because I can't resist buying it.

I think the only way I'm going to avoid raising a spoiled kid is to just start buying the stuff for myself. Can you picture it? "No, this is Mama's train set. Go play with your own."

[esmeralda]

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hmmmm...my savings demons arent anything specific. I find that when I have all the immediate bills paid and still have money left over, this false sense of security comes over me. And I spend more on wants rather than saving or paying down cc's. I think its a comfort thing. Gotta get over it though.

[PrincessPerky]

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hmmmm...my savings demons arent anything specific. I find that when I have all the immediate bills paid and still have money left over, this false sense of security comes over me. And I spend more on wants rather than saving or paying down cc's. I think its a comfort thing. Gotta get over it though.

Thats it! I was having trouble figuring mine out, but you hit the nail on the head! I sometimes get around it by paying a large amount of the CC, before I buy groceries (less likely to splurge that way) and I tend to lie to myself about what is in there (to the lower end, so I think I have less all the time)

[mom-from-missouri]

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One way to overcome this 'false sense of extra money', is to do what I do. Put extra money direct deposited into savings or the 401K. I can get it in an emerg., but if it isn't in the checkbook, I tend to not spend it. Every raise, I put more into the saving and retirement account to keep my paycheck the same. If its not in my hot little hand, my brain tends to forget its there...