Fun with Money
Do you remember when you were a kid and you got an allowance? Maybe there was something special and you saved up for it. When you finally got it, it was a wonderful feeling.
Now, we halfway think we want something, whip out the plastic, and then have a heart attack with the credit card bill comes in. It’s not as much fun as it used to be.
There were several keys to the fun we had as kids. One is that when you have a small amount of money, you think about what you are going to spend it on. If it was inline skates, you thought about the purchase for weeks, planning the style and brand and estimating when you would have the money saved up. You would imagine yourself on them, zipping here and there. You would forego candy bars and gum in favor of another quarter towards the skates.
Another part of the fun was that there was no after shock. You paid in cash, sometimes in handfuls of quarters. There was no bill to show up later on and therefore no stress.
The anticipation part of the purchase was sometimes as much or more fun than the actual buying of the thing. It was fun to think about what you would do and to plan how you were going to do it.
We can still have this kind of fun with money.
Whether you sell things on auction sites, write web content, do crowd sourcing tasks, you can make small amounts of money that can feel a lot like that allowance you had as a kid.
This is fun money and part of the fun is accumulating small payments into something bigger that can be spent on something you really want. Another part of the fun is browsing online for what you might buy. Will it be more music for your mp3 player? A book you really want? Perhaps you’ll buy materials for a new craft? Maybe you’ll get some semi-useless but fun gadget?
While you are waiting to save up, you can enjoy the process of looking for your treasure. You’ll find yourself rejecting what you might once have bought on a whim as not being worthy of your little electronic piggy bank. You’ll be the same type of discerning shopper you were as a kid!
And, when you buy it, it will be 100% completely paid for. It will be yours without regrets and worry. Sometimes a tiny bit of money is more fun than a lot of money.
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