It may be just me, but 20 something dollars has not seemed
to be that much money…until now! For the past nine weeks, I have been
struggling to put back my money each week. You would think that it was as if I
was trying to set aside an extra couple $100 every seven days, but no, just one
Andrew Jackson and a few Washingtons.
It makes me think back to when I was younger, you know back
in the day about 10-15 years ago. I would receive money in cards for birthdays
or Christmas and most of the time there was a $20 bill inside. My excitement
when discovering my new found wealth was equivalent to an adult winning the
lottery. I could not believe I was holding such a vast amount of money in my
bare hands. In my head, $20 made me the richest kid on earth. After my
giddiness wore off, I was faced with a dilemma. Do I spend the paper that was burning a fiery
hole in my pocket or to lock it up and hide it like the heart of Davy Jones?
That way I would still be able to tell everyone that I was filthy rich since I
possessed a whopping $20.
Then I grew into my teens and what I assumed was adulthood
at the time, a mere naive 18. Somehow along the way that $20 had lost it’s
value. $20 was a trip to the movies and hoping to have enough left for snacks. $20
was going to dinner with friends and having just enough to leave a tip, and
that was paying for just me. I could no longer use my childhood riches to buy
the things I wanted most. A new pair of jeans, the latest handbag, this season’s
new shoes, filling my car up all the way with gas, seeing my favorite band in
concert, or even just going to a Friday night football game was out of my $20
reach. I was dirt poor! I needed more money. I could not live on just $20 and
was now in the mindset that this was chump change. Birthday and Christmas cards
needed to up the ante to a minimum $50.
Fast forward just a few very short years and here I am now
in my mid 20’s. It is amazing the stages you go through in life and the ones
that always seem to come back around to you. I have entered back into my
childhood ways of thinking. $20 on any given day seems like an extra payday to
me now. I get just as excited seeing that Mr. Jackson as my ten-year-old self
did not so long ago. In a way it is funny. That same dollar amount buys even
less now than it did in my teen years, yet somehow the value of $20 has
increased so much more to me.
So as we head into our 30’s weeks, I suggest that each of
you go back and find that inner child and cling to every $30 amount with the
jaws of life because it is only getting more difficult. Keep moving forward. We
are more than halfway to the end!
Total Savings: $435
By: Tawny Ormes
Marketing Projects Coordinator
and TBT Webmaster
Marketing Projects Coordinator
and TBT Webmaster
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