Wewt! Get paid!

So I’m poking around at the math involved in my new paycheck. Which is looking pretty tidy. Even after the Feds and State and other people’s grandparents (Medicare) take their chunk, I’m still taking home a tidy bundle of change. So I’m evaluating my options here.

I have a couple of months of rent fee living ahead (though not expense free.) and am trying to figure out how best to use it. Do I sock away the excess money, buy nothing, live minimalist and have a tidy savings account to show for it when I move out?

Or do I take this chance to get a couple of things that I’ve been neglecting? Shoes, for example… Most of my shoes need to be replaced, badly. They either fit incorrectly and chew my heels up to the point where its painful to walk, or the ones that are comfortable are just not pretty to look at. A Cell phone. I need to get my own phone and own phone number. That.. and T-Mobile carries the D&G Moto RAZR, which is just pretty.

I have a lot of things that I do have to buy. New furniture for example. I picked out a lovely set at Rooms to Go. For the living room at least. A couch and ottoman in a tiffany box blue micro suede and espresso stained wood. Very boxy and modern but the blue suede softens things up a bit. I have a couple of wing chairs I’ll be getting reupholstered to compliment the new couch and then will probably just raid Target for the kitchen table set to match the two hutch cabinets that come with me when I move. (They are in a honey colored maple. And No, I’m not painting, changing or altering them. My Grandmother would hunt me down and haunt me) I can use the color change in the wood to help create the spatial distinction in the room between living and dining. I mean basically the whole couch/ottoman/chair thing is going to be focused on the giant TV and aside from my Thursday night “My Name is Earl” “The Office” and “Scrubs” fest… It’s basically really expensive cat furniture.

My bed’s a twin… one of the many joys of being newly Single… I can use my bedroom’s floor space better, and I don’t wiggle much in my sleep anyways, so I’m an ideal twin-bed sleeper. But it will need sheets and quilts and other linens. I have to buy towels. I have to buy all my kitchen gizmos. My plan, by the way is to budget so much each month that can be spent on Household accoutrements and prioritize and buy them in stages. Also.. get things delivered whenever I can. Ebay is good for a lot of that. I just have to figure out if I pay more buying locally with sales tax, or buying over the net with shipping.

So.. chunky savings account, or designer cell phone?