If you have been reading my most recent posts you know that I’m in over-analytical mode when it comes to my mind racing with ideas and thoughts. It’s a trait I have that is both good and bad. It’s great to be an over-thinker at times, but then it will also drive you crazy! I have gone back and forth on the decision for purchasing my computer in the coming weeks. The decision before was what type of computer to get: desktop, all in one or laptop. Then it was price range. Then it was to buy locally on Tax Free Weekend or to order online via QVC and take advantage of Easy Pay. Well the last one is what is still up in the air. Yesterday I decided to take a look-see in person at Best Buy. I wanted to see the offerings. Lately I’ve been a little apprehensive at the thought of the big computer purchase. Like, I don’t wanna go into the store and drop $600 on a computer and then be left with no money until my next paycheck. Yes, my car payment will be gone, yes I’ll have my monthly bonus, but I still gotta live. Still gotta pay rent and other bills, plus school supplies and uniforms.
So I think I’ve made my decision, although it’s subject to change within the next few weeks. I’ve decided to order my computer online with QVC and use Easy Pay. I think this is best so that I’m not strapped for cash after making a big purchase. Unfortunately, it’s not like I’ve been saving to go buy a computer. I’m just able to do so now that the big looming car payment will be no longer. I’ve found the computer that I want and I’ll be ordering it Tax Free Weekend. I want to wait and see what the TSV is on Sunday August 7th because I checked the program guide and Dell will be having a TSV. At least the plan is to wait…I doubt the TSV will be a desktop.
I’m so excited and counting down the days till I’m paid in full! Last year I wasn’t as financially prepared for the cost of my daughter going to Kindergarten. We got everything she needed, but it was costly. School uniforms, school supplies, backpacks, lunchboxes, etc it was a lot. This year is different and I’m so thankful that I can breathe sighs of relief. I was just looking online at www.walmart.com at uniform prices and I will probably go ahead and order a couple of things this weekend. I wanna get a jumpstart on the items that I think are gonna sell out fast. I’ve learned based on this past year, that school uniforms aren’t as readily available as one would think throughout the year. I thought I could just go online and get new uniforms as the school year progressed…only if she was a couple of sizes. I guess they don’t restock the inventory because there was very little available on several sites that I checked.
I’m also very excited about my mission to be organized. I’m glad that I can afford to start making changes in my household. There are so many things that I’ve wanted and needed for so long and just haven’t been able to get. I feel like my life is truly about to change for the better. I feel like it’s my time to experience the upswing. It’s been such a difficult last few years for me and for us as a family…the sighs of relief are so heavy I don’t know how to put it into words! But I know many of you know what that feeling either is like or would be like if you could take a substantial monthly payment and put it back into your pocket. It’s all I can think about. I wish I could already be officially free of my car payment…I have less than a car payment left and was debating if I should pay some on it this check or just pay it all at the beginning of August. I think I’m going to do the latter just so that I can do some other things with my money and not be broke for no reason. It just feels like I’m one step closer. Like the way it feels when you finished your last final exam and you have to wait until graduation day to walk across that stage…that’s a good way of describing how I feel! It’s a happy anxious feeling 🙂
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