Sunday, September 26, 2004

budget

i feel like crap this morning. absolutely and incomprehensibly knackered.

and my wallet, it's feeling the drain as well.

now, let's talk about uhh budgeting for a second shall we?

yes, let's.

so last week,

i bought this,

and one of these.

they were planned investments but none of which were properly budgeted for. believe me when i say ebay makes it too easy. a click and a tap and it's all sorted. for more reasons why ebay is evil, please talk to our resident ebay hoe - hi riss! :) side question: has anybody tried haggling on ebay for those non-auctioned items?

but my wallet really felt the sting when i over indulged on lots of this stuff enjoyed at places such as this, this and this.

now, either i develop more self-control on friday nights or find other avenues where money could be saved to compensate for the former.

at the moment, i quite like my friday nights, and as opposed to being a problem, it's just something i need to...

tweak

sooo in the interest of maintaining the loss of self-control here's a list of some 'food-money' saving techniques that i've prepared earlier:

1. bring-food-from-home technique (thanks mum)
2. the stir through pasta sauce technique (thanks xtn)
3. the whole bbq chicken technique (thanks jb)
4. eat-other-peoples-food-at-lunch technique (thanks myle)
5. eat-other-peoples-food-at-dinner technique (thanks again myle)

if you need clarification on what these techniques entail, please see me. thanks.

7 comments:

Addy said...

*yawn* *panda eyes blink*

so when u going to whip out that digicam of urs mate? join me and my japanese obsessive ways. smile! *click*

Riss said...

nothing wrong with being an ebay whore! yahoo auctions is also quite good to buy stuff off too.

i've managed to get sellers to cut down their shipping costs, hehe. you just have to ask nicely :)

i'm addicted, i've got to ask our IT department to ban the url or something because i spend way too much time surfing it at work.

Beckster said...

Yui for once I entirely empathise with you. Friday nights are so much fun, but my liver and wallet (and thighs from Saturday night) are yelping with pain. We'll just need to do some heavy cost-cutting elsewhere. Thanks for your tips.

so..?!! said...

I got that camera. I bought it abt 3 wks ago and am acting like a total Nihon with it. But mine's the champagne coloured one, christened "Bubbles" coz its the colour of champagne bubbles! Thanks for assistace with the name JB! Does yours have a name?

p.s oh yeah I hear your pain re the need for cheaper extra-curricular activities too.. I just got an MP3 player on the weekend.. and hafta pay off credit card for 4 weekends of snowboarding trips and equipment (but it was sooo worth it!!) :P

yui said...

let's not make any drastic decisions just yet people, friday nights are still good to go, this time i'll bring my brand spanking new camera nick named "bad dawg" to remind us of the merry good time we're having..

hah!!

JookBoy said...

You know, I haven't done the BBQ'd chicken thing for a while. It's time to step that up again!

Remember the lettuce and mayo :)

Anonymous said...

The camera is worth it mate!!!

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