I have had a new obsession to reduce debt and to start saving. I find this extraordinary because I hate numbers. I can feel my anxiety rising just by looking at too many charts with numbers on it.
I just need to keep an account of myself on what I do.
I have some goals to live a more frugal life.
I normally do this quite well. But. I do love shopping. I do get a rush when I purchase something and it does make me happy. For a while I do feel like a better person. More successful. A very deceptive feeling.
My first small goal is to have less coffees with my friends. I will see a friend at the shops and we decide to have a coffee together. Often this is quite early, like a bit after nine am. So often we haven’t had breakfast so we have that too. One week I think I spend about $17:00. Would add up to quite a bit.
So here I go