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I will wholeheartedly admit that I have never really been a frugal person.  Not to say that I’m the kind of person to blow through a ton of money and not know where it went, but I’ve also never been the kind of guy to actually cut coupons out.  But like many other people, I’ve noticed that I start to actually pay much more attention to where my money is going the older I get.  About a year ago I started reading a few personal finance blogs and I’ve realized that like everybody else out there I’m wasting a decent amount of money on things that aren’t even necessary.  There are plenty of expenditures that I’m completely cool with (usually the music or drinking variety), there are a lot of things that I waste money on, as well as things that I need but actually hate spending money on.  Usually it’s things that i realize I get absolutely no joy out of and seem unnecessarily over-priced, like dishwashing liquid, washing powder, or toilet tissue.

I will confess that a lot of the reason i hate spending a lot of money on dish-washing liquid is because i hate washing dishes,  so spending $6 or $7 on those products seems like insult to injury as far as i’m concerned.

At any rate, today I made a run to Lowes to pick up some supplies for a flooring fix I’m to do tomorrow and realize that the adhesive has to be mixed and I should probably be prepared to be stirring it by hand, which seems kind of boring and tiring, so I decided that I should try to cop a cheap blender from the grocery store for this.  i dont own one, plus i would need it for other handyman jobs as well.  I leave Lowes and see a Goodwill next to it and decide to start there instead of going to WalMart or Kroger, and boy am I glad I did.

A couple weeks back I was taking a break from some home remodeling work and decided to hit up McDonalds up (i know i know McDonalds is the devil, just hear me out).  Since i was on the north side of town i hit up the one in Clintonville, one that i had never been to before.

As i sit down to eat, to my right I see a table of 3 younger boys sitting together.  They were probably about 13-14 years old.

At a table behind them was a mother with her teenage son.

To my immediate left was a grandmother sitting with her grandson.

On the patio outside was a father sitting with his two sons.