{"id":279,"date":"2009-03-02T00:54:12","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T06:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/?p=279"},"modified":"2009-03-01T22:02:46","modified_gmt":"2009-03-02T04:02:46","slug":"purchase-guilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/?p=279","title":{"rendered":"Purchase &#8220;Guilt&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I just worked 3 extra hours today. I didn&#8217;t really want to, and they were kinda sucky hours, because I was lifting dirty boxes for all of them, and then some. During this shift, I got asked to come in tomorrow, my day off, and I said sure. This means I have to work tomorrow night too. I&#8217;m excited.<\/p>\n<p>Why did I do this? Well, part of it is just the fact that I have trouble saying no, but the major part of it is purchase guilt. I felt bad for spending so much on a new computer, so I feel like I have to work more, even if that would stress me out, to make up for it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s honestly really stupid.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, first off, I had the money. I had plenty of money to make this purchase. Secondly, I use my computer, what, during 90% of my leisure time? More? And it&#8217;s not doing everything I want it to anymore, because I push it so hard to multitask. It&#8217;s not stupid for me to invest more money into something I use so much, especially since it&#8217;s been like&#8230; at least 5 years since I upgraded. Thirdly, I don&#8217;t think anyone thinks it&#8217;s a stupid idea. Everyone understands. It&#8217;s all good.<br \/>\nStill, I feel bad about it. Sort of.<br \/>\nLike so much of my life, I feel like I should be saving money, lots of money, and that big purchases are bad. This doesn&#8217;t stop me from making like&#8230; 20 little purchases of the same cost amount and feeling fine about it, of course. But I look ahead to after graduation and I know I need to save money, right? I gotta get ready to move on with my life. But it&#8217;s stupid to make myself get any more stressed than I already am, you know? I have to survive school before I can move on. No reason to get bent out of shape&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But yeah, I dunno. I very often feel this way about purchases. I feel like, sometimes, I need to hide things from my brother, for instance, so he doesn&#8217;t know I bought yet another game. It&#8217;s all really stupid. It&#8217;s my money. I can do with it what I want.<\/p>\n<p>I should enjoy the things I buy. I mean, that&#8217;s why I bought them. And I will enjoy this computer&#8230; I just hope to gods it doesn&#8217;t give me much trouble in its construction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I just worked 3 extra hours today. I didn&#8217;t really want to, and they were kinda sucky hours, because I was lifting dirty boxes for all of them, and then some. During this shift, I got asked to come in tomorrow, my day off, and I said sure. This means I have to work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}