Comments on: Sometimes You Just Gotta Set the Toilet on Fire (to learn a lesson) http://www.canajunfinances.com/2012/07/31/sometimes-you-just-gotta-set-the-toilet-on-fire-to-learn-a-lesson/ Personal Finances essays, stories, case studies and how to articles with a distinctly Canadian Point of View, from the Clown Prince of Personal Finances. Paying it forward as best I can. Sat, 25 May 2013 13:33:25 +0000 hourly 1 By: Connie Solidad http://www.canajunfinances.com/2012/07/31/sometimes-you-just-gotta-set-the-toilet-on-fire-to-learn-a-lesson/comment-page-1/#comment-44627 Connie Solidad Mon, 06 Aug 2012 16:51:35 +0000 http://www.canajunfinances.com/?p=9272#comment-44627 For me, it was impulse buying while shopping for groceries. I would shop while I was hungry, and end up spending twice my budget on items that weren’t on my list.

Once I started hanging onto my receipts and did the math on unnecessary purchases, I started being much more strict on my purchases, and cut my monthly food bills by 40%!

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Jennifer Goldblum

]]> By: Tara http://www.canajunfinances.com/2012/07/31/sometimes-you-just-gotta-set-the-toilet-on-fire-to-learn-a-lesson/comment-page-1/#comment-44580 Tara Fri, 03 Aug 2012 17:56:42 +0000 http://www.canajunfinances.com/?p=9272#comment-44580 Very funny. :-) My bad habit was running up bills on credit cards that I couldn’t pay off within the month… took me many years to get really sick of paying all that interest but I finally kicked the habit.

]]> By: Modest Money http://www.canajunfinances.com/2012/07/31/sometimes-you-just-gotta-set-the-toilet-on-fire-to-learn-a-lesson/comment-page-1/#comment-44515 Modest Money Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:31:38 +0000 http://www.canajunfinances.com/?p=9272#comment-44515 lol at your toilet pyromaniac days. I had a phase like that but it was primarily outdoor fire setting. So luckily no damage to the house.

Financially I guess my habit that I just wasn’t learning from was eating out at restaurants. I knew I was blowing lots of money, but I just felt like money would be unlimited and it was time to live the good life. Also I made the mistake of funding large PPC campaigns with a credit card that I couldn’t afford to pay off until the following month’s commission check would show up. I didn’t really have a flash fire that woke me up, more of a slow burn instead.

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