New Purse

My friend, Katelin and I went shopping the other night while Josh was out and we had a LOT of fun. I always go shopipng with Josh, which I love! But he always tells me I need to go shopping with girls. Well I took his advice and went with my really good friend. I had a little bit of birthday money left to spend so I found a few things and as we were leaving we decided to check out the purses. I noticed a really bright fun Betsey Johnson purse and I just gasped as I fell in love with it! It was literally the exact amount of money I had left over and I could either choose the purse, or the clothes. I decided to go with the clothes, but I wanted to take a picture of the purse!

The next day I showed Josh the purse and told him it was only $28 and how adorable it was and how I loved it and how I always wanted a Betsey Johnson purse. He asked "Well why didn't' you get it? It was only $28" and I said how I only had enough money for the clothes and not the purse. He told me I was silly and that I should go back during my lunch break and get it. I thought "really?!"

(I hate hate HATE spending money on myself. I will use mascara as eye liner for as long as possible so I don't have to spend money on my make up. I only go shopping when I have birthday money because I feel bad using Josh and my money, so spending OUR money is always out of the question till i'm desperate)

Well I decided to go get the purse and on my way I thought "What am I doing? I should turn around, I don't NEED the purse!" Then I thought no, Josh will tell me how silly I was for not getting the purse and how he seriously doesn't care and WANTS me to spend money on myself so I did it! I went and bought the purse!!

I went home and showed Josh and told him how I have been wanting a purse and he told me I should "go every so often and look at purses and get one" and how he really doesn't mind when I spend money and how he WANTS me to! I was thinking "really? I can spend money on myself just because I want to??" It made me realize how selfless and sweet my husband is. I try really hard, probably TOO hard, to save money that I never enjoy the little things. I never buy things for myself, or even Josh for that matter, because I want to save save save! But where is the fun in that? We can't enjoy life if we are always saving every little dime and never taking time to spend money on ourselves.

I'm so grateful to have a husband who loves to save money with me, but also is so kind and sweet to me that anytime I need or want anything, he always makes sure I have it. Thank you Joshua! I love you!