Money: Grown up things or fun things?

aww, surface noise

Whats wrong with raking leaves up into a compost heap? I hate leaf blowers! Damn garders at 9am waking me up mutter grump.

(I agree with Trayce re: leafblowers. They're just annoying.)

Leaf blowers are great. Also, I'd like to hear how you'd clean leaves out of the gutter on the roof with a rake.

The one I want (a Toro) isn't noisy - it's electric, and turns leaves into mulch. I've had my eye on it for a while, because it's affordable and electric.

Plus, any machine that makes noise and slightly disrupts nature in some way is always a good time in my book.

OR, buy books and records as Christmas presents but read them/listen to them YOURSELF FIRST.

I always get hit with huge waves of guilt if I do this. Should I?

Ah, Leafy.

As for the other stuff, get the grown up things then reward yourself for your scruples by buying a few things off the fun list.

i feel like i am gradually becoming a grown-up about shopping

used to be, i would go grocery shopping, or say food shopping (hard to call a lot of what i bought groceries), and just buy a bunch of whatever

now not only am i buying things because they go together to make sensible meals to last before the next trip, and buying things because they are cheap and can be used for more than one thing, i am also paying attention to the prices and sales, and when there's a discount on a staple that i don't need right then i buy it anyway, if i can, so that i save the money on the next time around

i'm so pleased with my modicum of prudence, i just wanna go out and reward myself with a ridiculous waste to compensate - luckily i literally can't afford to

i am almost out of coffee, and i was kinda : ( because money is gonna be tight for the next lil bit, and then today i realized that on the other side of the shelf in the cupboard there is a whole new canister that i bought because it was on sale woooooot