I wasn't perfect at flexing my non-spending muscles, but I had at least gotten much better about it these last few months and had made a lot of progress this year on paying down my cc card debt (right now is $4,180 at 7.24% and $2,348 at 0%). Then I moved last week and lost a lot of the ground I had gained--didn't have any furniture so bought a lot on craigslist, and bought apartment supplies at target and bed bath and beyond, and paid movers and had a bed bug inspector come. This is a place my parents bought, so it's not a cost that I expect to repeat, but I feel so down about the spending--I've also been spending more on food too, in the midst of running around on errands and being stressed by the move. I think my costs right now have run to about $1,500. I am having trouble saying no I guess--waiting to get certain items would probably be possible, but I want to have a usable living space now, but I know that 'wanting' things and feeling that I deserve them when I don't really have the money for them has always trapped me in the past and I'm afraid it's the same impulse at work now.
Just dejected about the reversal in spending habits. I do plan to get back on the horse soon and minimize the damage, but the damage is still there. Not sure if I'm looking for advice or reassurance or face punches? I am disappointed in the spending but also know that sometimes expensive periods of life just come up...which is why in the future I want to have cash saved for these instances, and now I'm even farther away from that goal than I was at the start of the month.