Hello!
As you know, money is always a touchy subject so
today I will tell you how I manage my expenses with my closet.
Since I started to work I realized that I had to put some
boundaries on my expenses related to my closet. In the first month with my
first salary, I defined a specific budget for expenses related to clothes, accessories
and makeup. I remember that this happened in July so it was sales season and I
ran to stores to find the best deals and, I have to confess that I wasted my
budget in less than a week. The memory that I have about this is that, with the
budget, I failed to reduce costs and instead of doing this I protected my
choices with the excuse “I can buy this, I have available budget” because the
idea of having an amount to spend made me be less rational and buy things just
because I had money available. Fortunately, it only took me a month to realize
that this approach didn’t work with me so I quickly stopped to budgeting my
closet.
Fundamentally, I realized that more than respect a
budget, it is better to follow our common sense and buy just what we need. The
most important is to understand that I just need to balance my needs and think
if they deserve the respective expense, more than buy something because I still
have money available in the current month. Doing this, I learn everyday how to
control myself with rationality not with a budget, what makes me grow and be
more aware about the value of the money.
But my thinking on this subject changed over time… Now,
more than look to the price, I try to understand the quality and the benefit
that some piece may give me and according to this I do my choice.
Remember, sometimes, less can be more.
Have a nice day,
Sofia Rocha Silva
