There I was, a spring in my step as I went to get the mail. Little did I know, but another Transaction cleanse Lesson awaited. (They seem to lurk everywhere.) There, tucked in amongst the bills, magazines, and useless solicitations, lie a deal that was actually worth something. Fresh off my "50% off Easter candy" Personal Finance for Dumb Bunnies lesson, my initial plan had been to toss out all the sales flyers lock, stock, and barrel.
But something caught my eye
Transaction Cleanse or not, sometimes it's hard to fight your natural instincts. Like the talking dog in Pixar's movie "Up" whose attention is instantaneously and thoroughly diverted from what he is saying upon spotting a squirrel, I recently found myself similarly sidetracked. At the time of the incident, I was in a hurry and very much focused on the important task at hand: procuring a gelato to redress a heinous dessert wrong that had been perpetrated against me.
That's how I'm thinking about my Saturday plans for a Cook from the Pantry Day, i.e. batch cook dishes based on whatever's already in the house. True, if a warm sunny day were forecast and I weren't in the middle of a Transaction Cleanse, this might not be on the agenda. But rain is on tap, and this idea really scratches me where I itch. Here's why.
"See how long you can go without spending any money," the nice man on the podcast challenged. The man was Carl Richards and the podcast Behavior Gap, one of many channels through which Carl educates readers about money. As opposed to standard budgets where you trim expenses, the idea of Carl's "transaction cleanse" was to see how long you could go without buying anything at all.
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