Non-Frugal Confession Time

Inspired by Meredith, ahem, Marcy over at Stretching a Buck I am forced to reveal some of the most awful things about myself. I simply cannot live with myself anymore without telling you some of my most unfrugal habits.

Here they are: gasp

1. I don't drink bottom Coke. If I buy a 2 Liter of Diet Coke I will not drink the last, oh say, 6 ounces of it. It just really grosses me out to drink the Coke at the bottom of the bottle. I don't know why. So think how much Coke I've wasted! If I were truly frugal I would just drink water.

2. I don't line dry my clothes. My mom and granny used to hang my clothes on the line to dry. Now there is nothing like the smell of line dried clothes but there is nothing like there feel either. When I wore line dried jeans to school I could barely bend my knees. I could hear myself coming and going. Not cool. Not to mention the time there was a live bee in my underwear. Yeah, that was fun. Not! So I use my dryer all the time. But I do hang my sheets and blankets over my dining room chairs.

3. I don't rescue moldy cheese. I throw it in the garbage. I know that I can just cut the moldy part off and it will be fine but alas, I can't. Into the garbage it goes.

4. I use name brand laundry detergent. But I do buy it on sale with a coupon. Nothing but Tide or Gain will get my kids' clothes clean. I've tried everything on the market. I even made homemade laundry detergent once. It was gross. It looked like curdled milk.

5. I don't usually mark the stuff that's in my freezer. I like to play the game of pull it out, defrost it, and guess how old it is. Well, really, I don't like to play that game but I find myself doing it a lot. Why am I so lazy that I can't just buy a Sharpie and mark the stuff? Shameful.

6. I eat lunch out with my friends too much! Do you hear me girls? When I say I'm eating what I brought from home, please, for the love of Jesus, make me eat it!

7. Like Jessica, I have way too many clothes in my closet that don't fit. It is soooo unfrugal to keep gaining weight and buying new clothes. It is also unfrugal health wise. I need to lose the weight. (Refer to #6!)

8. I implusively buy too much stuff for my children. When given the choice of buying something with their own money or putting it back on the shelf they usually put it back. But not me. I just buy it. I am getting better though. Allowances have made a big dent in this area. But still the impulse is there.

9. I still throw out too many unused veggies from the refrigerator. Maybe when I start eating my own stuff that I grew with my own sweat and energy I won't let the stuff go to waste. Hey, maybe this will help with #7!

10. I procrastinate way too much. My motto has always been, "No matter how much time I have to do something, that is how long it will take." This causes late fees, stress, and worry. I need to just learn to do it right now. Imagine what frugal activities I could be doing if I weren't thinking about all the stuff I should be doing. Does that make sense to anyone besides me?

Well, there you have it! My unfrugal confessions. I'm not perfect. I'm not nearly perfect. I'm just a mom and wife who is in debt and who is trying, although not perfectly, to pay off the debt and live like no one else.