Yes, I did it. My rent that has been sitting in the bank for a week or so and I gouged into it.
The way money works for me is like so: JDawg pays two equal support payments each month on the first and fifteenth. Then, I get a few different sources of government assistance, being a low-income single mom, like rental assistance and child tax benefits. And every few months or so, I invoice my clients. All of these moneys work out so that the bulk of my income is in the last 10 days of the month – actually about 70% of it.
So the beginning of the month is ’spend it if ya got it’ time and thankfully, the end of the month is when most of the bills are due. But today, I stepped out of my normal spending spectrum to buy Isobel some size two clothes.
[Cuz we're going to start potty training next week. And we need big, easy-to-remove clothes. Like a size two is - she's wearing 12-18 and 18-24 months, right now.]
I spent $55 and she got to pick out some sale stuff. A touque, dress, cardigan, tunic, leggings and skirt later, I am fully immersed in PINK.
And I feel like I spend smartly, but still shouldn’t have spent. The guilt, sometimes kills me. Though…
I stopped myself from selling out and getting her a $45 kick-ass army green pea-length winter coat cuz a) it was $45 and b) it had faux fur on the hood. We don’t do fur – real or not. But then again…we never used to do commercial children’s characters, either, or PINK.
I’ve sold out. Toddler-styles.
