How Do You Avoid Spending Out of Budget.
I don't know if mine is peaceful or not because I really don't know what I feel right now.
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I had just a little cash on me to sustain myself through this weekend and the week coming, I needed to readjust my expenditures to meet up to the demands at hand that's all I wanted, is this another method of being stingy?
I asked that question because I needed to take care of my cheerful giving aspect of life too, I can give allot and I can spend allot and the only thing that do teaches me lessons is when I go broke, that's when I will begin to see the possible measures I should have taken to manage my expenses but then when the money comes in again I forget about all the plans I've made to manage my expenses and still spend so much and go broke again. It seems my brain is playing some kind of tricks on me because I really don't get how all this is happening this way.
Anytime little money comes into my account that is when they will start selling all the beautiful clothes around my area, that is also when my neighbor will refill her shop with spaghetti and noodles. I don't know how it use to happen also that I do come across people I am running from because of billings.
I have told myself I won't spend so much money today and that made me take the decision to trek all the way from my friends house to my house just to manage the little money I am having. I covered quite a good distance and wanted to buy cold water to ease the pressure and Guage my fuel tank for the remaining journey. James's house was around the junction I stopped to get cold water but I refused to branch to his house just to save time and money beside he is my ex and i feel am not well dressed and prepared to meet him.
I got to the shop and boom James was yelling with the shop owner about the recent transfer he did to her, the shop owner was complaining she didn't see the alert while on the other Hand James was complaining he made a transfer to the woman.
I greeted James and he was like why am i passing his house without stopping by to see him. I don't want my ex to feel I don't want to see him so i told him i wanted to get cold water before branching to his house, i gladly told him that because I noticed he is on his way out and he isn't going back inside the house again. He told me he is on his way going out already but we can walk to the branch, he will take motorcycle to were he is heading to while i do the same.
I haven't gotten the cold water i wanted to buy and so i removed a thousand naira and gave the shop owner so she can give me change for the fifty naira water i want to purchase. the woman was complaining she isn't having change to give me I don't know when I pointed a drink inside the shop and asked them to give me the drink.
Now i am already impressing my ex that i have money to buy a cold drink while i walk down the road with him. when I was given the drink, I was just feeling like the boss around my ex so i asked him what drink does he want to take I want to buy for him, can you imagine?
He said I shouldn't worry but the imaginary voice in my head that wants to put me into trouble didn't stopped talking to me. i told the seller to bring a drink for him because the sun is hot and he needs to cool off. Before i realized, i have spent halve of the money i want to utilize for the whole week in just few minutes.
After we went our individuals ways, that was when i began to see how I've messed up my calculations. I refused to take a motorcycle for fifty naira to my house but I've spent five hundred naira on drinks I never planned to buy, how the hell did that happened in just a twinkle of an eye? who told my ex i was passing by that road this afternoon?
I still ended up trekking the rest of the distance home after spending times ten of what i should have used to board a motorcyle home.
I didn't know when I started scolding myself on my way home for buying a drink instead of water. I don't know how you guys do manage your expenses please share with me before i go out of my room again, anything can still happen..lols
Those peoples selling clothes in your area once money comes in your account want you to be broke, don't look at their shops, and if possible avoid passing in that place, while you still have the money, for the noodles, you should buy, there are too sumptuous to be overlooked
It was at that point you realized that you have ducked up... This is so funny.. Impressing your ex with the little money you are managing?.. Like seriously.. Who does that?.. I was even thinking he would say you shouldnt bother about the water of 50naira since you don't have change and that he would pay for it but you went as far as buying a drink and even buying for him too. Even when he told you he didn't want any drink, you for kuku stop there but you still decided to impress him as thr big girl you are.
Oya nah.. You will bear the consequences alone.. I wish you all the best..
I don't know about you o but for me, the moment i change a N1000 note, I'm already seeing myself as having N500 remaining, because I will definitely end up spending the others 😅 your village people pushed you to trek just to save money and you still ended up spending even more money
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