Eric’s Month Of Frugality

Two weeks in and so far so swell.

For those of you not in the know, my big sis is getting married. In Mexico. Awesome right? It is. Not awesome? Me being poor.

 I was going to start trying to save up some extra cash for it over the summer. But then things like concerts, festivals, and Sunday Fundays got in the way of that. A mean who wants to mess with a Minnesota Summer? No man. No man at all.

So here I sit. Already stretched for cash, hustling my way to Playa Del Carmen. Awkwardly on the docket.

1.     Spending less than 20 bucks a week on food.

2.     Not spending money at the bar.

3.     Not letting people buy me drinks, cause that doesn’t help.

4.     Encouraging people to “Bring the House Party Back”

5.     Embracing free stuff (events and internet tv and movies)

6.     Being ok with not constantly having stuff to do (I can be a social, busy body)

7.     Pissing off Jesse with #2.

8.     Driving as little as possible (I already basically do that)

The results of these goals seem to be a lot of pre-drinking, using my flask “Church”, watching Fringe Season 3 on the interweb, drinking water amongst the heathens at the local meat market (Abilene, Slims, Stella’s, eta), and doing homework on time. And lots of biking. And tons of tomato soup.

But don’t get me wrong, it’s a good month so far. Reasonable enough. Found some fun things to do for minimal cash. Saving seems to be going good. And Fringe is hella good. Finished Breaking Bad’s 4th season, trying to keep up with Boardwalk Empire, and plenty of other nonsense to watch. I need to get back into reading, I’m thinking Invisible Man (you know cause it’s a classic and I’m black).

So at this point I’m pretty sure I wrote this to myself, just to let me know myself know I will make it.

“You’ll get there Eric!” said Eric

“Thanks Eric,” Eric replied.

Self hug.

Well at least I’m only talking to myself, not full on imbecile.