found pounds
I love when I put on a jacket for the first time in the fall and discover cash in one of the pockets. It’s like a present from your younger self.
I made a mistake. When I did my budgeting for the month, the only attention I paid to my extra paycheck was the amount that I could take from it to apply towards debt. I totally overlooked making a decision on what to do with the rest of the money left over after I paid debt with that check. My budget is based on the other income from this month. So I have income that I haven’t designated for any particular purpose. It’s like "found" money.
Now, I usually save or do debt repayment with found money. But this time, I think I’ll do something different - something within me is whispering, "You’ve done really well this month - LIVE a little!" I was planning on sacrificing my gym membership until next month, because notwithstanding having come up with the idea this month, I didn’t have enough in my allowance to do it until next month. Now that I have this found money, it could go towards joining the gym. Then again, I could do something fun with the money - go to the shore since I haven’t had the chance all summer, or I could go see this movie I’ve been having trouble getting to. Or, I could get some clothes - you know I need some new clothes.
Somehow I feel like this would be so much easier if I had anticipated having this money - I probably would have made plans two weeks ago for what I would do with it. I usually just do nothing when I can’t make a decision. I guess I’ll figure something out over the weekend.
