o silent pockets

so recently ive found myself in a rather unpleasant position.

unemployment (shame to all you imagining me in ridiculous arrangements).

consequently, i now have very limited (none, if we go into specifics) financial funding with which to amuse myself. hence, in attempt to stem my rapidly declining bank balance, ive sketched out a few rough guidelines which i shall (attempt to) faithfully abide by:

- thou shalt not splurge on unnecessary grocery items, ie. 10 packets of doritos, green bean soy milk, green tea ice cream, rice bubble LCM bars (value packs are not valuable!), 4 for $8 green tea (you have tea leaves!), family packed anythings (you, as a singly entity, are not a family).

- when passing a sale sign, thou shalt walk on by, not walk in & buy
*caution: window shopping may lead to unfaithfulness to these holy guidelines due to insufficient supplies of self control.

- in endeavour to squander away time, thou shalt resort to mindless daydreaming or other invaluable (cost free) activities instead of relapsing into nasty habits such as buying newspapers under delusion of cleverly acquainting self on current affairs, then skipping to the comics/puzzles page.

- thou shalt drag thy lazy behind to a library (perhaps one where you dont owe a large ass fine) instead of buying a book you will never read again since you already know 'whodunit'.

- thou shalt (find, then) read the VCR manual and master the sacred art of video taping, instead of buying, the tasteless movies and series you saw the night before (and cant get enough of) on tv.
* exceptions may include house, how i met your mother, scrubs, i am sam.

and thus hopefully, by embracing and practicing all skills that are ninja (cheap stingy asian), i'll be able to curb my path to destitution.

fellows in the same poor boat are welcome to join me on my quest to freedom (from creditors). =]

xo shirley