A slave to money

Waiting at the XuanWuMenDong bus stop, I could not help shivering with cold. I had waited for the No.T4-bus for at least half an hour, while approximately five No. 7-buses which brought me to that bus stop had passed by.

The day before, the weather forecast reported that it would be -4℃~4℃. Quite nice! I felt lucky. But was it really that nice?

Why was it so cold? Had the weather forecast report made a mistake? Or did my feeling go wrong? I could not stop shivering and my feet became senseless. Looking up at the grey sky, I could do nothing but just sigh.

 

I was going to a shop to fetch my hairdryer, which I had ordered from the internet. I had finished the payment using online banking. Mostly in this case, people would wait at home for the courier to bring him the goods. However, I intended to argue myself into believing that I went to the shop not because I wanted to save that 8yuan of freight, but to have a look at the shop and see whether it deserve further ?cooperation?.

 

Why did I buy the hairdryer from the internet, while it could be seen on the shelves of all super markets? Why did I keep my little room in a simplest decoration? Why did I do the cooking every day?

I could, anyhow, find a reason for everything I did. I liked simple decoration, especially when I was not determined about where I would be the next month. I cooked because I had a light taste which could only be satisfied by my own.

However, someone could easily lay bare my lie. ?You are just niggardly with money.?

 

He-he?yes, I am merely a niggardly woman; I have been a slave to money?I have been used to economize on money since I have a poor family and that I am a good girl. But I have grown up now, I earn my own money now, yet I still have to save on money. What a shamed?

I know that money doesn?t grow more by saving, but grows more by making. However, sometimes if you could not make something grow more, you have to stop it from getting less.

 

I wrote this article, to some extent, to comfort myself in mind. Sometimes I really feel ashamed when my friends kid with me about my penny pinching. What?s more, I am a little worried that I will be still too niggardly in future even when I become a millionaire. Ha-ha?