What broke my day: Spending money. I absolutely hate spending money, and as I'm moving to school in 11 days I am in shopping mode. Today we spent like 90 dollars on school supplies and it's so depressing to me. Now, I know that most people don't like spending money, but I think that I hate spending it more than the average American. I'm from Holland....Michigan, it's like the little Netherlands. Not the modern day Netherlands...the kind of Netherlands from the 1800's. Here in Holland, if you ain' Dutch, you ain't much. My mother is 100% dutch. No, she can't speak the language, nor can her parents, but since pretty much everyone here marries within their community (not so much anymore, but in the past) there is still a pure Dutch line. I don't know if you know this, but the dutch people are notorious for being stingy and wanting the best quality for the least amount of money. (Understand the term Going Dutch now?) Leave it to the Dutch people to settle in a state which has the highest return price on soda cans. My mother, and a lot of people around here, definitely shows the Dutch side. Example: Up until I was 10 and told my mother what she was doing was ridiculous, my mother would stop on the side of the road if she had seen a pop can and then proceed to make me get out of the car to get the can. She was willing to risk her daughter's life for 10 cents. She had her priorities straight. While I am only 50% dutch, I am also German....these people aren't necessarily known for their stinginess, but listen to this. The German's I come from came to America and became....Amish. Stinginess is in my blood, and spending money is almost a sin. It's the way I was raised, and the fact that I had to spend money today, just makes me feel like my ancestors would roll in their graves. I hate feeling poor, and even though I'm not super poor, spending any kind of money makes me feel like I'm a step away from living on the street.
What made my day: Buying things. Yes, I hate spending money, but I absolutely love getting new things...it's because I'm Dutch. High quality of living, low expenditure. As I said I spent 90 dollars today, but for the amount of stuff I got, I should feel good. Yep...you are totally getting a complete list. Today, I got: 24 Mechanical Pencils, 3 12packs of Command poster strips, really nice headphones, an 8 pack of Bic highlighters, 12 pack of paper mate super nice colored felt-tip pens, 5 ball point retractable pens, a large pack of post-it's, 2 different types of page flags, 2 college ruled plastic covered notebooks, 2 2packs of wite-out, 5 glue sticks, 2 sharpies, 2 mini notebooks, a magazine holder, a water bottle, and a drawer organizer. Now that I'm back from work I get to open all these shiny new things, and it's like Christmas all over. I get to play with all my stuff, get it packed and feel all awesome because I have great new things. I know it's a little weird that I'm getting all excited about office supplies, but I love organization, and office supplies help keep me organized. Plus they all have that new smell which is so super awesome. Getting so many new things makes me feel all rich and happy, it's exciting. Just looking at the massive pile of new things laying on my bed makes me feel all giddy and happy like a 4 year old me on my Birthday. You should know that we have video footage related to this. My dad asks me repeatedly what I want for my Birthday and I repeatedly answer a barbie and nothing else. Cut to me opening my first present....a barbie. My face goes all surprised and it's like I can't believe what I'm seeing. It's almost as if I just discovered buried treasure and it's golden gleam lights up my face. Well, that look is how I feel when I get lots of new stuff. It makes me feel like I just struck gold. Though, if I find buried treasure, that would be five hundred kabillion gazillion times better. If someone could arrange that....it would be awesome.
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