ACT YOUR WAGE!!

This entry deals with learning to discipline yourself to make wise purchases that you can afford. One of the toughest things for me when I was charging like a crazy man was my inability to tell my wife and children "no" when they wanted something. The phrase "I can't afford it" was not a regular part of my vocabulary. Well I have come a long way towards learning how to act my wage. I don't make purchases I can't afford anymore. I really put thought into making purchases and I try to make do with what I have.


I recently just got the "I need an IPOD" bug. You know the feeling that you get when you feel like you must have an item. Well I found an old mp3 player that I had purchased four years ago and I sat down for an hour and figured out how to load it again and voila no IPOD needed. Now I am listening to Dave Ramsey on podcast every day on the way to work.


The lesson I learned is that if you will make do with what you already have, you will never miss what you don't have. As Dave says, if you will live like no one else, later you can live like no one else.