Day 4 of 28: Coupons and feminine hygiene products

Only four days into this one-month $100 budget... and I've already blown through over $30 of it like a spending loser.

Clearly, this is not the most notable start in the history of $100 budget months.

Actually, I started off really well frankly. Spent $20 this week on about two weeks worth of food thanks to a 12 pack of Kraft Dinner going for about $10 at Shoppers that also included my usual egg salad sandwich spread purchase. I figured it was money well spent and I was doing well.

Until I remembered a certain coupon that was set to expire tonight.

You may recall a couple of months ago about my angry post over how absolutely sucky U by kotex pads are. We're not talking a little sucky here either. A lot sucky. And I was stuck with a giant pack of them thanks to a coupon and my own stupidity. Like a huge box of them.

Well the same place that I got my U by kotex coupon offered a coupon for Always Infinity worth quite a bit. This is especially given that I actually use and really like Always Infinity pads, a reality made much more evident by how much frothing rage the U by kotex product created in me.

And I wanted to make use of this coupon. Badly. Because I really do like Always Infinity products and had every intention of using said product on my next *ahem* cycle. It was essentially a disposable non-degradable product that will be used given that I'm quite a number of years away from menopause and likely be used sooner rather than later given my overall moods while enjoy the many perks of being a woman.

However, this was my $100 budget month, meaning that in order to buy this, I will essentially have to cut into this total, which was essentially meant to be my food budget for the month.

But this hardly goes into the crux of the issue with me purchasing this item today or any other day like it. Fact is, I DON'T NEED MORE PADS RIGHT NOW. I had a giant box of perfectly usable if reprehensibly uncomfortable and disgustingly cheaply constructed U by kotex pads that reasonably could last me a good half a year of cycles not to mention a decent haul of tampons to limit overall damages and extend general lifetime.

It's like when you go out and buy a new stick of lip balm even though you have a small collection of lip balms that you have yet to use at the moment. I mean, you will likely eventually get to using the new lip balm but either at the cost of finishing one of your older ones or not for a very long time likely. And why would anyone need so many different lip balms really?

But... the coupon...

So now because of my stupidity and need for a "good deal" I am now... going to have to pinch even more now to not go over the remainder of my $100 discretionary spending budget for the month. Because I couldn't turn down a deal for something that... well I will use and do like, but didn't really need this month.

An important lesson for me to ponder and digest as far as how I spend my money, and my need to value it more in cash than in things, particularly things I don't need now, even if I may "need" it later, as I continue on for this month.

On to the next day.