What Are Your Money Vices?
Filed in archive Buying Stuff by Justin McHenry on September 11, 2007

What's the one thing you most love to spend money on?
I like to spend money on music and the things that play it-stereos, iPods, etc. I also like to spend it on T-shirts, which I think is sort of a strange vice. But I just love T-shirts. If I go to a restaurant and they're selling T-shirts with their restaurant's name on them, I'm tempted to buy one even if I didn't like the food. When I go on vacation, I regularly come home with two or three T-shirts. I can go almost a whole summer without wearing the same T-shirt twice, and I'd say I wear a T-shirt 5 out of 7 days each week. I like to look at them and think about where I got them and what I was doing and who I was with, and I think they help me remember interesting things I've done in my life. I can't be totally alone in this respect, or they wouldn't be selling T-shirts everywhere you go, but still I think I'm a little extreme.
Of course I like to spend money on big things, too, like traveling and things that make my house feel special. But I'm thinking here more about little things.
Here's what I hate to spend money on: cars. And I don't just mean buying a used car versus a new car or a cheaper model versus a more expensive one. I mean that I curse my car every time it needs gas or an oil change or God forbid new brakes. Logically I know that my car does a lot for me, but I just hate spending even five cents on it. Sometimes my wife takes it to the car wash and I stew over the seven bucks spent on soap suds.
(By the way, I got on this topic after reading Selena Maranjian's "Top Money Drains" column yesterday at Motley Fool.)
Howsabout you... what are your money vices?
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