Birthday? Halloween? Rainy day?
It doesn’t take me long to justify spending money on ridiculous things. I find that I live like a lord for the first half of the month only to scrimp and scrape around for the tail-end. This is the sort of behaviour that should worry any self-concerned adult, but I know I’m not alone. I see most of my peers picking up their ‘luxury’ items on impulse a day or two after pay day.
With a little consideration you’d be able to keep my finances in check, you might say… and you’d be correct. I offer you most humble thanks for sharing this key advice, and I hope in all sincerity that you wont take my rejection of such to heart.
You see: I am a small fish in a big pond. I am one of the less significant numbers in a ticket reel as long as the country. When I can I’ll throw £200 or so at a new gadget and spend a few days picking up new t-shirts and footy stuff. The consumer beast can only be kept at bay for a few days at a time before it gets the better of me (when I make to get the weekly groceries without a list or find myself in a sports outlet with any amount of time to kill). I strain to think of the sabre-toothed man-bear-pigs that some of the high-flyers have to deal with when I buckle in the face of my personal pint-sized payday fluff-ball.
At least, in our time of dark recession, there are facilities to cater for those with must-be-spent cash.
“Hairdressers & Salons of the Stars” could be a good start. The second advert on the home page proudly states that Bill Clinton took a trim for $200. It’s looking pretty difficult to find a “normal” barber because they’re just not on the internet. Small time family businesses make money from footfall off the street, and I can tell you from experience that a haircut of Bill Clinton’s calibre would be little more than £10 in any self respecting barber shop.
StarCarHire.co.uk is the kind of dealership you might be looking for if you’ve got a swanky drive planned or you’re in need of some funky vans… or maybe just because you can. I’m not sure how recently updated this website is (or the Salon one, looking at it now), but the Ghostbusters car is flaunted as their most recent addition! Get in there and you could be ectoplasm’ing along the board-walk to an orange sky before the bank closes. Comparing that to a reasonable, practical van hire service you can see that you’ll probably be able to get the job done without earning your pay packet through Alex Ferguson or Alan Sugar.
So for the time being folks.. we’ll stick to buying our reasonably priced frivolities, eh?
I’ll be leaving the diamond encrusted £20,000 football boots to the rich and famous.