Modest Mouse

This post has nothing to do with that band. It just seemed to work with the theme of what I'm going to be talking about. Of course, if you want to play their single in the background as you read, I won't mind. It's pleasant and catchy.

As part of my ongoing yen for change and self improvement, I'm going to take a stab at more modest living. I've been working at this job for almost a year now and I have been able to identify some grevious money wasting habits. Sucessive trips to Starbucks, impulse shopping at the Eaton centre, sushi for lunch all the time. Sure these things are nice, but their value for me is brief. And brevity has become tiresome. I'm looking for substance.

This change has been on its way for awhile, as I have been cutting out the impulse shopping and bringing my lunch to work. This is all in the hope that if I cut down on the flights of fancy I could save up for things that are really nice and that will last a long time. Things like a home or a DKNY suit. It turns out that my change in thinking is pretty fortuitous as there are good things on the horizon that will require some frugality in the short term for prosperity in the long term.

So there may be fewer beauty blogs in the next year (though I may use that time to refine my skills and share some tips and tricks), more nights of watching DVDs at home and brown bagging it to work. In all honesty I have enough make-up to last 3 people for a year. But that's all good. I see it as a challenge. My grandmother is giving me her sewing machine and my mother has agreed to make me some new pieces for my fall wardrobe as I'm perfecting that craft of sewing for myself (I'll spin it as "My clothes are custom made").

It's something different and something that could be exceptionally good for a long time so I have no hesitation in going for it.

Today's sing-a-long song: "Float on" by Modest Mouse

HRH