| Impatient Aspirers |
[Mar. 9th, 2008|11:56 pm] |
Hello,
I've heard the term "Impatient Aspirers", used a lot, it means the 20 somethings who have a lot of income and practically no responsibilities. Well! I fall in the same category. Everyone keeps telling me how I spend too much, and of-late I've been thinking that maybe I do spend a lot of money needlessly. So, I undertook an assignment. To document all the money I spend.
Now my intention was to document it and analyze it to understand if I spend needlessly and if I could stop it, not that I want to save money or anything, but, to stop myself from giving someone money they don't deserve. I have a very different understanding of money, it goes like this, I work very hard for the money that I earn, so, it's only natural that I would like to give it to someone who works as hard as me. Selling a sweetened soda for 125 Rs is not hard work, it's called ripping people off. I'd not like to be ripped off.
When I did actually document my spendings of the first ten days of march, the sum surprised even me. The amount in question can easily provide food for 20 people for an entire month. I looked at the amount of money I spent in ten days and realized that I have a problem. I wanted to document this and publish it.
I want to reduce my spendings by 50% in the next week and 80% then next week. I will also document April and see if I did any better.
Now, before I do this; I want a question to be answered. When I talk about something like this, spending so much money, it is indeed disturbing but, at the same time implies (it could be understood as such) that I HAVE that kind of money to spend.
So the question is, should I make the real spendings and real data available to the public? |
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