For the week and a half that I’ve been here, I’ve spent a whopping sum of $1000 usd on misc purchases – desired and required.

I feel a bit sick looking at my bank account and seeing the nmber of times my husband transfered large sums of money to me, only to be left with a meagre fraction of what was originally in it. Try as I do to convince myself that some purchases were absolutely neccesary like 8 boxes of my dailies contact lenses which am0unted up to $160 usd, giving my dad $200 usd for our outstanding long distance phone bills and almost $200 usd spent on beads, I still feel terrible. Lets not forget the $75 usd on canned curry, coffee, tea, packeted drinks all sent back to Japan.

Nevermind that my air ticket costs us $40 usd which was paid for taxes, and would otherwise have been free thanks to accumulated miles from previous travels to and fro the United States. I’m not the kind of girl to drop a thousand in a week. This is someone’s paycheck for the month.

I try to convince myself that most, if not all of the subsequent purchases were rarely on whim but instead thought out methodically. Like the wool coat I loved so much was a tad pricey but my rationale was that I can’t find it in America or Japan anyway, and it was going to be one of those pieces that I cherished. As I was telling Crystal yesterday, I only spend that kinda money on something I really really like. The rest of th purchases went to hidden, sunken costs like food and transpor. Guiltily it also went to a lot of other stuff. BUT its not like I spent it all on any single item, the overhead ( as I’d like to call it ) went into countless other things as well like shoes, clothes.. Mainly clothes really haha.

Well I suppose I shan’t be shopping for a very long time and definitely not in Japan where shit is overpriced. Better to get it outta my system now eh?