It's all about the Benjamins baby

20 years old, college student, still getting used to having liquid assets. Yeah, sounds like a recipe for being really, really poor. Please! Somebody help me to learn self-control!

See I've got this problem. I'm a girl. And I love to shop. I love getting new things to make my room pretty or to add to my wardrobe. As if it's not full enough of scarves, shoes, hats, accessories, jeans, tops, dresses, and sweaters already. "But hey," I say to myself. "You'll regret not buying this later." And every once in a while I do. But most of the time I do this amazing thing called...forgetting all about it. Yeah, I have a very selective memory and things like a random shirt I liked don't necessarily make the team.

And yet here I am, today, with a new dress, a metal pepsi sign, a pair of legwarmers, and a handbook to help me teach myself basic Russian. Now, I am going to defend myself a little bit here. The Russian book is something I have been wanting to start and isn't simply a whim, but a goal. I actually do want to learn Russian along with the other 3 languages I need to study as a vocal performance major. But I digress. So that purchase's value was worth the cost. The legwarmers weren't actually necessary, neither was the Pepsi sign. The new dress, however, will also has a value higher than its cost, because it will be used multiple times in recitals and things of the sort pertaining to my major. I also got Mark a third of his birthday present today, so that was also a worthwhile purchase. 3 out of 5 isn't horrible, but it's not fantastic either.

And yet here I am, $50 poorer and more in debt. But so it goes. And I'll tell myself, once again, that from here on out I'll buy only what I need, but chances are I'll splurge on something stupid and kick myself in the shins for it later. Money sucks. Why don't they teach you THAT in high school? They babble about preparing you for life after college, but quite frankly, I don't see how learning how to balance an equation will ever assist me when I'm attempting to balance my checkbook. I'm not bashing people who are going to school for careers related to science, because I loved science, but I'm just pointing out an obvious truth. The things that students really need to know going out of high school are never taught to them.

I could really use a teacher right about now.