Top 5 Things I’d Like to Buy (and Probably WILL!)
As a complement to an earlier post, there are some worthwhile purchases I plan on making in the near future. Frugality is a very good thing in moderation but I am not letting it get in the way of buying items or doing things that make me happy.
Inline Roller Skates
For exercise, I do a lot of running. I ran my first marathon last year and am looking forward to my second perhaps in the fall. The practice sessions can be brutal. I occasionally suffer from shin splints and sore knees. I’ve actually noted that my joints have a warm up time just the same as my muscles do.
I plan on getting inline skates to allow me to exercise in a slightly different way. Skating uses a different form than running and is less jarring to the knees. I can break up my running training with less impact skating. I’ll be saving my knees and other joints for more years of running later on in life.
Investment Books
Frugal living is important but it’s only one piece of the puzzle. In order to be wealthy you need to learn how to invest. Pouring all of your retirement savings into index funds will only go so far. It is just about guaranteed to provide a comfortable quality of life in retirement but in order to be wealthier than you current salary allows, you need to go beyond what is safe and accepted.
Books are a simple way to invest in my education. I want to learn more. Books are a great way to introduce myself to a new way of thinking.
Kitchen Storage Containers
The other day after a shopping trip to Costco, we realized we had two and a half packages of spaghetti in our pantry. We had just bought a bulk pack of spaghetti. So now we have lots and lots of spaghetti!
Obviously, we want to keep duplication of grocery purchases to a minimum. Spaghetti isn’t too much of a problem. Eventually we will eat it all and it won’t go bad. However, a few extra sets of containers to help us organize our food stuffs would help us identify what we really need on grocery day.
A Wedding and a Honeymoon
I always liked the concept of buying experiences rather than stuff when you are young. Our wedding and honeymoon, while comparatively expensive, will provide us with some of the most important memories in our lives. Stuff can break. It can get old and become obsolete. Memories will last forever.
Frugal living is important to a point. It is not more important than creating those memories that will last you a lifetime.