Okay, it’s not 2013 yet. But in a few days Chinese New Years is happening which means a similar amount of spending money and activities. This is one of those thirty day periods too where it feels like every week or so there is some kind of holiday or special event taking place. It’s so easy to drain yourself financially if you don’t semi pre-budget yourself ahead of time.
Although in Chinese New years usually end up getting money as it is a tradition for married people to give money for good luck. The funny thing I always thought in getting this money is that it is kind of like a loan I thought where when I become the married guy then it’s my turn to give the money back to others to continue a cycle. This was actually one way I learned to save money a lot as I treated all this extra money that people gave me as simply an investment where I collected interest from it in the bank.
I guess the thing was I didn’t really see it as “my money” so to speak as opposed to people giving it to me because they want me to use it to become fortunate so that I can then be the one giving when the time comes. I even remember my older brother trying to scare me to spend it all at Mcdonalds because he claimed to me if I didn’t spend it my parents would take it away after. Glad I didn’t take that advice. 