Miss Bankrupt is a Hoarder

Today I emptied my condiment drawer at work. I was forced to clean my office; I’ve been telling everyone it was somewhat of an intervention except no one was crying or reading me letters.

My boss scheduled it on our calendar and then went through my files himself, while I piled up all of the mustard, ketchup and butter packets onto my desk. “What happens if I need hot sauce one day?”

“Yeah,” my boss said. “Because not a day goes by that I don’t wish I had a packet of hot sauce.”

I think I annoy him. Anyway I threw it all into the trashcan after he made a comment about how hoarding starts.

I did hoard all of those packets of sauce. I also hoard money except not in a good way. I have found that lately I’ve been afraid to spend any money, like on bills. I’ll wait until the last possible second to pay just because I don’t want to pay. Yet, if something at the store is less than $10, I’ll probably buy it. Which is stupid, because an electricity bill of $200 is way more worth paying than a bunch of gadgets at multiple times that cost less than $10 but by the end of the month total $200. See what I mean? I’m so afraid of not having any money that I neglect to pay larger bills but waste money on a bunch of smaller ones.

If I’m going to be a hoarder, I would prefer to hoard savings accounts. I don’t see how I could go wrong with a bunch of savings accounts or a bunch of money in savings accounts. I think I’m going to make a point of paying my large bills early (and not when faced with disconnection) and stuffing everything else into my savings account at ING.

Would make more sense. Until then, I’ll refrain from saving hot sauce packets and spending my money on cheap things just because they’re cheap.