No Spending Challenge: Day 2

Sunday September 2



Oh, Sunday. A very tempting day for spending across America. It's the day you start to think about what you need in the house for the week, a lot of people go to the grocery store and Target and other places. But you know what makes it a really hard day? COUPONS.

I get the Washington Post delivered, not for the slightly right-leaning editorials that turn my stomach, but for the awesome coupons/inserts sections and the comics in color. This morning I woke up and grabbed the paper from the porch and got back in bed, like I typically do, and went straight for the adverts. I was about halfway through when I remembered I was doing this no spending challenge. It was like being hypnotized by the smell of fresh doughnuts when you just started a diet. I was in a trance. Anyway, I put the rest of the adverts down into a pile, put them in the recycling, and grabbed the funnies.

This is going to be a little harder than I thought. Even the first few ads I looked at (CVS is my vice), reminded me that there is so much stuff that I "need" (not really).  But then I remembered that I have all that stuff, sitting unopened, in boxes under my bathroom sink!