A year ago, I made a typical (though much less frequent) cringe-inducing move and filled my "black book" (a Filofax I bought probably 10 or so years ago at Bob Slate) with Filofax brand week-at-a-glance and month-at-a-glance calendar paper bought at a local and independent stationer rather than something cheaper at Staples.
To the tune of $60 or so.
It's just part of who I am. I'm smart, but I'm also dreamy. And, yes, I have issues. I'm working on that.
At the time, the reality that $60 was 1/3 the price of a new iPod Touch smacked me upside the head as the ring of the cash register was still bouncing off the bits of wall space it could find in the cluttered-in-the-best-way stationery shop.
But, by that type of return-to-reality moment, I feel a surge of heat...of shame and embarrassment and need to get out into fresh air as soon as possible. The deed is done and it feels irrevocable. I guess it can be called self-sabotage, but I deem it irrevocable.
Entering 2010, I realized that the Google Calendar feature I've been using on my computer for the last couple of months will become my personal calendar this year. It won't be mobile, but I spend so much time at home that it should work as smoothly as it has since I started using it.
And it's free baby, free! One less expense these days is a really good thing. Gaining new freedom by being more grounded in my financial reality and embracing new choices is even better.
3 comments:
Was Bob Slate the stationary shop that was above that used book shop?
I loved that place!
They had a few locations...one was in Porter Square on Mass. Ave. near the funeral home. In Harvard Square there were two locations, I think, but I can only remember the one close to Crate and Barrel, on Church Street.
Which used book store?
Congrats on moving over to an electronic calendar. The nice thing about Google calendar is that you can still check it on other computers. Not as convenient as having it on the iTouch but it a step in that direction.
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