The Allowance

Scott and I are trying out a new little thing in our budget this year called an allowance.  We each get twenty bucks each month to spend on whatever we want.  I know, right?  Doesn't it seem like I just won Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

See kids, if you work hard and graduate from college and get a job, you might get the same allowance you had when you were 12.*  That is the lesson to be learned here.

Ahem, so this leads me into all sorts of exciting google searches about what I might spend the allowance on this month.  OR.  Do I wait and spend $40 next month?  This is not a use-it-or-lose-it thing, ya know.  OR.  Do I wait until the end of the year and then I have $240 to spend?  This is like getting double grandma money!

Scott already spent his allotment on lunch with a friend.  You see this is where we go from Who Wants to be a Millionaire to...the exit scenes of the Bachelor.  "Unexpected" things tend to happen, and then suddenly your dream boyfriend allowance is gone and you're driving away in a limo.  Ok I'm going to stop this analogy right now.

So back to finances.  This morning I went to the farmer's market and guess what?  I got vanilla beans for one cent each.  I am not even kidding.  Do you know how many vanilla beans I could buy with my twenty dollars?  I do, it's 2,000!  Luckily I kept my cool and only got 17.  This 17 cents is most likely part of the grocery budget and not my allowance, but the point is, now I have this totally crazy expectation that I need to utilize this $20 to get something greater than 2,000 vanilla beans.  How is this even going to be possible?  It isn't.

*Let it be known that I never got an allowance, but it seemed like other kids did...No real data is referenced in this post.  Except the vanilla bean calculations.