Wants And Needs.

Growing up I always heard people telling me that I had to separate my wants from my needs. Now,of coarse I had no Idea what that meant but I smiled and listened anyways,because well you should always listen to what people tell you.

Anyways, I always heard that around my house. I really had no Idea what that meant. It wasn't until I got a bit older till my family told me that what it really meant when someone said to separate your wants from your needs. They told me that it meant that in life there are things that a person needs in life to survive,like food,or water,clothes, and a home.Then there are things that people want to have like a million dollars,or jewelry or expensive things,just things like that.

Now that I have been on my own since I was 18 I have come to realize that the things that my family and friends told me when I was young really was true.I have come to realize that I really do need to separate my wants from my needs now. I mean between paying for my college things and my rent for my place and my car and phone and food I really need to be careful with my money.

Now that's not saying that I don't go shopping. I actually go shopping quite often,I went shopping today actually,but rather that I need to manage my money and my finances carefully and responsible. Now I know what my parents and grandparents were trying to teach me all along.

The Pack Rat In Me.

Ever noticed when you go shopping, sometimes you tend to just leave the bags sit, and then just sometimes they tend to just keeping growing and growing until you eventually have a lot of the same thing. Well I an a person who can go shopping and even know I have ten of them sitting at home I just pick up another because its on sale, or even because it's a different color. I know I shouldn't but who can go by a sale and not love it,I know I can't . Even if there is not a sale I tend to pick up different things that I already have.

Another thing that I am really bad for is I like to keep everything that my friends and family gives me. Now I am not saying that I don't throw things away sometimes, because I do clean quite a bit and go through things a lot(expecially when I am board), but I just keep a lot of things. Just like the other day, I was going through my file cabinets, again just cause I was board, and found some cards, that my family had given me for different special events. I bet you they had to be from when I was 3 or 4 but I had keep them, and I have no idea why I keep them.

I do the same things with clothes and the biggest with purses and wallets. I bet you I have probably 100 purses and 100 wallets. I love to make sure I have on for every year, and every season, and I need to make sure that I have my special ones for special events. I can't help my self. I just see them In stores and think to my self (wow, I have to have that) then I pick it up. Like I said I can't help myself. I love to shop. I know that I should maby clean out my closet and go through my purses and wallets and everything else that I have bough in bulk but I don't. Between work and class and family, and friends I just never find the time. Even my friends sometimes call me a pack rat. I hate that. I am not a pack rack, I just no a good deal when I see it. Well maby I will go through and just look at the things that I have and pair down, just a little. Maby I should also limit the things that I buy and not go to so many sales. That way my friends and family can't call me a pack rat.