Our concerted effort to save is still really new. The first thing I realized was that emotion was keeping me from saving. If you're anything like me you know it's really hard to remove emotion from logical decisions. To me, I've always equated things with success. New cars, a house, nice clothes, etc. But in order for me to be able to actually afford these things, we need to scale back and save.
Right now we're deciding whether or not to break up with Verizon, ditch our iPhones and save. I know. It's going to be REALLY hard for me to not have an iPhone. The logic seems to be winning but damn, the emotion is hard. Everyone I know has iPhones and we kind of pick on the people who don't. I know, it's totally snobby but whatever.
So when my husband, Mr. Savey Pants (we'll call him MSP from now own) told me he wanted to ditch Verizon to save money and get rid of iPhones, my knee-jerk reaction was "aw hell naw!" but now that I'm trying to be more logical about it, logic is really winning. I asked myself "what do I really use my phone for?"
The dirty truth: I want a camera that texts and checks email/Facebook. Yes. I'm a vapid dumb ass. Sue me.
I get barely any phone calls but I take photos of my son and text constantly, need to be attached to email at all times for work and appreciate trolling Facebook on the reg. To give myself credit, I also check the weather and the New York Times app. Note to self, make sure NYT has an android app… So yes, I don't REALLY need the pretty new iPhone 6, but that doesn't mean I don't want it. Truthfully, our window for changing is wide open and closing quickly. My phone has been on the fritz (thank you Apple for making your phones only last 18 mos, tops) and decides when it wants to accept or send text messages randomly and also no longer has a functioning on/off button. Super exciting, right? So we basically have to make the choice before my phone fully dies so we can get some sort of buy back from the evil trolls of the interwebs.
Stay tuned for our final decision, but today's lesson is - remove emotion and see how your decisions change. It's pretty eye opening.
Next on the save list: cars. Lord help me.
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