Day 8: Experience, please!

I was proud of myself. I didn't spend any money yesterday! Good job, me.

But today I spent a few hundred dollars on theater tickets without a second thought.

Again, however, this is where I want to be. To splurge on an experience, but not continue to clutter my life up with extraneous stuff.

Oh, I will never be a minimalist. I enjoy my little treasures too much.

But I want to focus on the doing, not the getting. I will reach a tipping point some day (sooner than I would like, I'm sure) where I realize that this is the last time I need to purchase an item. That I have enough to last me a lifetime. Or what's left of a lifetime.

Hmmm. A bit morbid.

Fact remains that I am working on fighting my magpie collector tendencies so I don't leave a house of chaos behind. I won't have family to go through it and no stranger should deal with my innate desire to hoard the Shiny Things.

It's a process. But I am working on it. And while I may not be where I want to be, I am still making improvements.

Like not spending money on anything for at least one day.