Try spending no money for three days in a row

Hey guys.

So, without really meaning to, I successfully went three days without spending any money, whatsoever.

From Sunday 12 November, until Thursday 16 November. No money was spent between those two days, neither cash nor card.

This is a tricky challenge to proves, especially because so many transactions nowadays are electronic, and there's no way I'm sharing banking info on the internet.

Nope. No sirree.

So this past week, I ended up squirreling away in my apartment in order to work on and finish up projects. Thanks to a stash of frozen food and long-life milk, I had no need to leave the apartment for any reason.

Except Monday to write a test and see a lecturer. But I didn't go shopping. Which is good.

Flip, but it's difficult to try and not spend any money for longer than a day. There's always something that you need to buy: medicine, toiletries, food, clothing...

And there's no real way to try and budget and prepare for these kinds of situations. You can, but life has a way of taking all your plans, throwing them out the window, and then laughing obnoxiously in your face while you panic and try to salvage what you can.

But for those three days... it felt glorious, not having to worry about how much money I had to buy food or petrol, or that I wouldn't be able to buy something because I wouldn't have enough money...

Just, it was a pleasant experience. Granted, I was still stressing about projects, but money became a non-existent problem for me. To not have to worry about something like that and use that energy elsewhere, it's incredible. It feels as though more is getting done, and it feels absolutely amazing.