They guy seemed to me like he was talking from experience so the crappy food thing as he said was due to canned & frozen food. And the obsessive bean counting I know - like you know where every.single.cent is in your entire life. It's just a stress that's a headache to walk around with. And your idea on the tax return sounds good but I took that to mean that this is true once you get out of the whole - you can't conceive of actually having money in the bank for anything other than bills so spend, spend, spend.
It's crazy to me that I can look back on living like that (and I'm always worried that I'll go right back to it in a second). I can remember my parents giving me money for xmas and knowing that I'd spend maybe 10% of it on something "nice" (like a CD) and the rest on bills, then it would be gone and I'd be just as broke as before I started.
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Date: 2012-03-06 03:55 am (UTC)It's crazy to me that I can look back on living like that (and I'm always worried that I'll go right back to it in a second). I can remember my parents giving me money for xmas and knowing that I'd spend maybe 10% of it on something "nice" (like a CD) and the rest on bills, then it would be gone and I'd be just as broke as before I started.