On my road to saving (and even just living paycheck to paycheck some weeks), I realize there are some sacrifices I’ll need to make.

One of them, and very sadly so, is not going to Las Vegas in August. I’ve never been to Las Vegas and would love the experience of going and enjoying the weekend there with my boyfriend and 5,000 other hacker-type-people. But the plane ticket is $300 and I’ll need spending money, and such is life that I make plenty of money to live on and spend just a little and save just a little, but not to splurge and spend $400-500 for a weekend in Vegas.

So maybe next year, Defcon. Maybe next year. (How depressing! Nobody ever said money was fun, unless they have a lot of it and more coming in by the minute!)

Lesson:

Save save save so when you want to make a one-time spontaneous $400-500 splurge, not only is it affordable, it doesn’t even affect your pocketbook greatly at all. ($2000 in checking, $2000 in savings would be a place I could do this at. Boy am I a long way away!)

I want a Chocolate Mud Pie Shake.

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