My Weekend Wallet
I’ll start with a confession: I almost never have cash on me, unless someone has paid me back for something. Even then, just give me a few days and I’ll spend it on something, probably food. My former co-worker tells me this is terrible, that everyone should carry cash, everyday. I know, I know, I tell her. But I won’t. I just never do. If I have it, I spend it, and I probably won’t remember on what. Credit/debt works for me because I can track it.
Besides, where don’t they take Visa nowadays?
Anyway, now that that’s out there, here’s a record of my credit card’s action this weekend, just because I find it entertaining. I did stop and get $20 from the bank (shocking to me), but only because I was anticipating the only-cash-unless-over-$10 policy at the Greek place. Turns out we didn’t go there, but my cash is now gone, of course:
Friday (half day!!):
Movie with friend at budget theatre: $4
Cake with friend (I paid since he paid for lunch): $8.50
Shopping (when did it stop being fun?), buying nothing: $0
Saturday:
Cupcakes with friends: $4
Greek pita at my favorite place for Greek pitas in the city:
Pizza at my favorite pizza place: $15
Grocery store: Sunday paper for my parents and two pints of gelato: $10.95
Sunday:
Treated to lunch at Wendy’s: $0
Total spending: approximately $42
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5 Responses to “My Weekend Wallet”
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I don’t carry cash either, although I’ve been trying to, just for emergencies. I used to keep a couple dollars in my car just in case…but as usual I’d spend them and not replace it.
I realized a while back that I also spend a good majority of my money on food. In other words, most of my money literally goes straight down the toilet!! lol.
(I ate at Wendy’s on Sunday too! Except I wasn’t treated. In fact, I did the treating. Hehe.)
I don’t carry cash either. I think it is common in our generation.
I am the exact same way with cash…and The Boy is not. He always has cash. Therefore, he usually ends up paying for dinner if we just grab something when we’re out (there are a lot of cash-only places in Berkeley - which I know, yet I always forget to keep cash in my wallet).
I used to try a “hidden 20″ rule, where I would always have a $20 bill hiding somewhere in my wallet (aka not where I normally put the bills) for emergencies and the like, but I somehow always managed to “find” it when I didn’t really need it.
That’s me too.. don’t feel like the odd one out LOL
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