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ace-trainer-risu · 11 months ago

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I have this silly frivolous thing I want to buy which I one hundred percent DO NOT NEED but I want it and it's only available for a limited time (ending tomorrow!) and it's in support of like a queer artist so its Morally Upstanding but like this is an expensive time of year b/c of holidays and I've also spent a lot of money lately on other necessary but expensive purchases but also like I can afford it! I am in a totally good solid place right now re: money, I can completely afford to spend money on silly pointless things, but Should I? shouldn't I save and be thrifty and my grandmothers both grew up in the DEPRESSION and my ancestors were in the IRISH POTATO FAMINE probably but it's not like I'll ever be able to retire anyway b/c CAPITALISM and AHHHHHHGHH H. help.

edit: i bought the thing.

#my brain is just this unreasonable circle of 'you don't need it' 'but i WANT it'#i gotta sorta kinda scammed a little bit once in college and it ended up costing my poor parents a couple hundred of dollars #and i seem to have FULLY blocked out the memory of this. i don't remember this happening. apparently i was borderline hysterical over this.#and idk sometimes i think maybe that's at least a factor in why I am very WEIRD about money now #i just feel so guilty about spending money on anything other than the essentials. and sometimes even that.#even tho again i am totally financially solvent! its weird. and annoying. hrghgh.#squirrel posting #vent post #its not even an exciting story btw which is bs. I just lost my auto-refilling mta card when i was an idiot freshman.

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