I love this quote
February 7th, 2012 at 01:23 pmI was bored this morning at work browsing some older threads on the forum. I ran across this quote in the "cheap or frugal" thread:
"I think I am both cheap and frugal and wasteful at the exact same time. So I am just me, I have my values and place values on things." - Nick_45
It really spoke to me. I've always wondered how I can be so cheap when it comes to some simple, inexpensive things, yet be willing to spend large amounts of money on things that most would consider frivolous.
For example, I saw my friend playing a game on his phone yesterday that looked like fun. I found it on the app store and it was $1.99. I basked at paying that amount of money for a game on my phone. Yet this weekend I'm driving to Lexington ($150 in gas round trip) and taking a bus trip into Huntington, WV for a basketball game (about 100 including the bus trip, food, beverages, etc...) and I wouldn't even think twice about it. The 1.99 wouldn't even be a blip on my bank account, but in applying my value to what I get for my money, the $250 on the weekend is a much better deal.
I guess we all know ourselves better than anyone, and we need to gauge the importance of every dollar we spend.