Preemptive monetary concern

posted by Jeff | Wednesday, June 11, 2008, 1:20 AM | comments: 0

With my credit card balances abolished, naturally I'd like to keep them at zero. I had to bust ass to get there, and I don't want to undo it all.

So tonight I'm having a minor short-term freak out at the balance I've racked up in the last month. It's a combination of the vacation (it's no secret I do whatever I feel like while on holiday), the new TV and of course the One Ring (which I have plenty of time to pay off). There isn't a spectacular failure in the works or anything, it just feels like I went a little nuts. As long as I pay myself out of the business, everything should be fine.

It's such a different vibe for me. Here I am saving money and not spending more than I make. I have some level of regret that I didn't do this sooner... nah, not really. I've had some awesome times that I wouldn't have had without throwing money I didn't have around, and you can't put a price on that. (Actually I can, and it was somewhere around $20k for the last ten years.)

Perhaps the realization about being a 30-something for me has been that I need to stock pile as much as I can so I can retire early and stop fucking around with a day job. I'm on a good roll now, if you don't count that the markets aren't being kind at the moment. Now I just have to exercise the right amount of restraint, or find clever ways to make more money without doing a ton more work.


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