Been spending like crazy this week.

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Registered: 11-17-2007
Been spending like crazy this week.
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Thu, 05-08-2008 - 12:59pm

I have been spending like crazy this week. In fact so bad that I only have about 50.00 dollars in the bank to last until next Wednesday I even got into the get away money by $50.00 and

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Registered: 10-28-2006
Thu, 05-08-2008 - 3:56pm

I am the same way, guilty over every thing I spend. Lately I haven't been as good as I should be, really have been fighting taking things back, but I haven't. I have deprived myself for so many years now and I just am sick of it. I am so close to paying off this last credit card it isn't even funny, and here I go undermining what I am trying to accomplish by buying things.


I have been so frustrated lately.


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Registered: 09-20-2004
Thu, 05-08-2008 - 4:34pm

I'm like this, too.

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Registered: 04-12-2007
Thu, 05-08-2008 - 6:07pm

There must be something in the air because I am frustrated right now, too.

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Registered: 07-10-2003
Thu, 05-08-2008 - 8:13pm

Just had to jump in here.....ME TOO!!


Although in my case so far its not the money stuff frustrating me as much as everything else!

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Registered: 11-17-2007
Fri, 05-09-2008 - 12:47am

Tell you You get one step ahead and there are at least three to bite you in the behind. Guess that what life is. No matter how much you put in the bank or how much you try to cut back there is always something to come up to take it away from you getting that half a step ahead.


I wish for the old days and for me that was not that long ago when

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Registered: 06-01-2007
Fri, 05-09-2008 - 1:09pm

Yes, definitely something in the air.

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Registered: 07-24-1997
Fri, 05-09-2008 - 1:49pm

Aww, Mary Ann, don't beat yourself up. You were in a vulnerable place, especially with regard to your mother's things.

I got myself out of debt and I make enough money now to live on and save, and I still sometimes have a heart attack when I think about what I've paid for something - even though I needed it, even though I have the money to spend now, even though (in the case of a new coat or purse) I am a senior executive and need to look like one, even though I no longer spend money that I don't have, even though I continue to make sensible decisions, even though I haven't done anything to permanently increase my cost of living (like buy a bigger house or take on a car loan) so I can always decide to stop spending if there is a market downturn - even with all of that, I still feel a little cold grip of fear when I think I've been frivolous.

In some ways, that's not bad. It will keep me from ever doing anything really stupid with my money, I hope.

Kelly