…to spend or not to spend

“I want the pencil box I was looking at in the shop!” I cried on top of my lungs. There was nothing dearer to me at that moment in time than that pencil box and I was willing to do anything to get it. But before I could reach the point to do “anything” for it, my parents had bought it for me.

Eight years later…

I was sitting in the lounge with my face down, tears dripping down my eyes, I wanted that Discman and this time again I was willing to do anything to possess it. A week later it was in my hands and this time again I didn’t had to do “anything” for it.

About a year later...I had become a little thoughtful

“Should I? or should I not?” were the questions jumping in my head making my nights restless. I just loved that wristwatch I saw in the store and I had enough of eidi to help me buy it. Finally I decided to go buy the watch.

Another year passed…

This time I had the cap in my head to wear it on my head. I did some research on different types of caps and a few weeks later I bought one from Tariq Road with my savings + eidi.

A few months later I got myself an mp3 player after deciding between whether I should or shouldn’t.

Going back to the pencil box, I remember at that time I at least 3 more pencil boxes all in perfect condition, yet I wanted that particular one.

The Discman, I used it barely 10 times – since i watch movies on my computer and listen to songs on computer or the car cd player – and now its somewhere in the cupboards coated with a zillion layers of dust.

The wristwatch. As far as I remember it was a good watch and I used to alot until it slipped from my hands and being a “made in china” make it stopped working and the repairing cost could have bought me a new watch.

Now comes the CAP! I never actually wore it :s  and the mp3 player, I used it for the sake of using it, not because I felt the need to use it but I actually took out some time to use the 1000 rupee mp3 player.

Conclusion…I simply wasted so much money!

All things I bought were nothing but the result of stupidity which leads to the conclusion that i should think whether i actually want to 1) buy this thing and 2) spend on this thing.

I think alot before spending and still end up spending on useless stuff. But over the years I have become good at it and now I barely spend which is a problem itself, since not-spending leads to a lot of money in my wallet which forces me to think about spending it :S and at the same time assures me that I can buy anything whenever I feel like

Not that I have a lagao/attachment with money but what if I keep on saving my whole bachelor-life and then my wife drops in and spends all of it :p

I advise the readers to start looking on to their spendings, m sure there are others like me out there.