save more money

my squirrel account is getting bigger as I type.

being a naive teenager, i earn money, but don’t have any needs (bills, food, etc.)
and so i blow my money off on candy. then i blew it off on clothes which like personally insulted my mom and lowered my self-esteem by fifty thousand.
i wanna actually buy something important, lasting, and useful. like an iHome. I’ve wanted one for practically a year. yet i have done nothing about it except hope i receive one for my birthday. if i had one then i wouldn’t have to burn myself CDs all the time, and it is annoying.
I also crave a cute mini backpack purse (the one I have is craptastic)

I am going to cease my own minor suffering Saving is the way to do this :]

For the family, studies and ROAD TRIPS!

personal

which I still do want to do…

But I have been saving quite a bit of my last few checks, and I’m just in the midst of deciding what my specific savings goal will be for this goal, and then reaching it.

At amritsar, inspite of my best intensions,I went window shopping at a fabric market (and dragged my grandma along too)She purchased two lenths of fabric,while the inevitable happened in my case.I fell in love with two difefrent colours at the same time.Trying to curb shopping, esp impulse shopping, I decided not to give in immediately and to think things over.However, like a spoilt child, my mind threw tantrums,and sulked so I could not rest in peace.Yeah,I knew by then that its best to stay away from markets if you dont want to shop.It doesnt help that everyone in my family, including my host, is a complusive shopper for clothes.
Next day,when I went back to shop(I HAd to…)I found that one of the two I wanted was sold, solving my dimemma for me.
I dont even wear salwar kameezes that much, and I had resolved not to buy things like clothes and personal care products for a while.Ah, well..babysteps.At least I held the impulse for a day.

try to put aside more money for necessities…and then for wants

i need to start saving NOW. i’m 17 years old, and have plans to be independent of my parents as sooon as possible. my boyfriend and i know we want to live together, whether that means staying at his house and paying rent to his mom or actually finding a place of our own (which obviously we’ll do at some point.) so i need to learn how to budget and save what i make early. as in now. :]

need help

ALL my pay goes straight into my bank account. I mean, i’m still at school, a full-time student, so i only earn about $85 a week – but considering i don’t spend any, in an average month i get about $340. But i earn about $260 in for every week of the holidays. I allow myself to spend $75 out of my bank acount every month – it’s only fair, i need SOME spending money.

I also iron for my family, and if consistent i can earn about $50 a week – not much but that pays for movie tickets and lunch when i’m out.

Also, i have a 5 and 10 pieces jar, and eventually it all adds up. My money box is for any spare change i have.

So in the end, i have 4 different ways of earning and saving money, and i am consisten with these methods. I think i’ve completed this goal… i am so ticking it off!!

YESSSSSS complete!