My family had decided not to go for a holiday last year as there were many natural disasters (flood, earthquake etc) that had occurred in many places.
With this extra "budgeted holiday money" ($10k), I have bought the following things or services:
1) Netbook $650 (Aug 2011)
2) XBox 360 with kinect $500 (Oct 2011)
3) Epi-Lasik Treatment $4000 (Dec 2011)
4) 50" Full HD Plasma TV $1150 (Feb 2012)
5) MacBook Pro 13" $2000 (Mar 2012)
Total: $8300
My next purchase: 2 x iPhone 4S plus battery cases (April 12).
Please note that I am not a super saver to the extent that I will save every dollars and cents. Money that is budgeted to be spent, I will spend it without any hesitation.
Good to balance life in having some money for spending. What needs to be spent have to be spent. Cheers!!
ReplyDeleteI also strongly advocate budgetting so that we won't over-save and under-spend.
ReplyDeleteHi SmartPassiveCashFlow and Createwealth8888,
ReplyDeleteBoth of you are right. Don't under-spend and over-save. And also don't under-save and over-spend.
Regards,
Freedom Achiever