Money... That's What I Want

In class we were asked to keep track of our spending for a week. The first thing I thought was "Great... why does this include Black Friday?!". I think most of us girls were worried about that. No one wants to see how much they've spent in a week! It's easy to spend money and then never think of it again. When I go to get gas for a car for example, I hate seeing the money add up on the little screen. But, by the time I'm out of the station, I forget about the fact that what I just did cost money. I just go back to driving and my mind moves on. But if I had to go home and write down exactly how much I just spent, I would feel terrible! I would feel like I just wasted money every time I write it down (not for gas, though. I need that.). I predicted that I would be spending quite a bit of money but not too much. My dad is very frugal and my mom and I... not so much. So I always have a guilty feeling whenever I buy anything (as I did when I wrote what I bought down on the paper) which I think contributed to my lack of spending. I was pleasantly surprised to add up my total and see that I hadn't spent very much at all, especially after hearing how much some of my classmates had spent. I was surprised, though, at how quickly little things added up. I seemed to buy a lot of little things, like face soap and a t shirt and leggings that were all under ten dollars but in the end these things add up. It's also interesting to see because we have been talking so much in class about how social class based on income affects ones' priorities. I defenitly saw this because I bought so many little things that didn't really affect my family because we are not poor while someone else with less money may have cringed at the amount of little things I bought. All in all though, i was really proud of how little I spent relative to how much I thought I would.