This goes here, THAT goes there...

[gwendolyngrey]

Now that I don't have rent and other obnoxious necessities to worry about, I've put together a budget and am socking my money away into various "essential purchases" funds.

I'm using this to store my most frivolous savings:

The idea is that when I see this, I'll be inspired to fill up the insides of the jar (and finish my own projects!).

If this whole lottery business goes my way, I'll be going to Costume College next summer!  If I can get a membership, I'll consider it a graduation present to myself.  I've always wanted to go, and now (ie. next year) is as good a time as any!  Excitement!  Glee! 

My other 'fund' is for a laptop.  I've gone quite long enough without a computer of my own, and I'll be needing one once I graduate anyway.  At the moment I'm thinking of getting a Dell Inspiron 1525 or a Gateway T-836; I'd really like to get a MacBook Pro, but there's no WAY I can afford something like that.  It'll be months before I've saved enough money to get anything though, so I have a while to mull things over and make up my mind.

And not so expensively but no less importantly, I'm finally going to get my own digital camera.  I actually have the money for this right now, and I've been putzing around the internet trying to decide which one I like best.  I really need to go look at Circuit City and Best Buy though before making up my mind about anything.

Comments

[sarahbellem.livejournal.com]

Ack! Too cute! I hope you get to go to Costume College. :)

[idlewild-grey.livejournal.com]

Thanks! All my fingers and toes are firmly crossed... I hate not knowing if I can get in or not! At least everyone else is in the same boat though...

[laurenmonkey.livejournal.com]

Cool! You're a great illustrator :) That's a really great idea!

[idlewild-grey.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I only wish that right now I cared about being an illustrator... it's incredible how school can suck the joy out of something you love.

[miss-elisabeth.livejournal.com]

Oooo! That's utterly adorable. Reminds me of Nancy Bradford sketches . . . but way way cuter.

I bought myself an Inspiron 1525 . . . while I still have pre-college money. Yeah. I wanted a Mac but it wasn't happening.

And I need to buy myself a Canon Rebel. The pricetag makes me wince, but I can't take my family's camera (same model) to college. *sigh*

[idlewild-grey.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I can live with cuter. ;-)

Do you like the Inspiron 1525? It looks good, and I've read a bunch of reviews on it... but it's so hard to judge something unless you've actually seen and touched it.