Financial diet.

What I would buy if I wasn't on a financial diet: This Steve Mono bag from Opening Ceremony. Image/openingceremony.us

Friends. I am on a diet. One of the cash-related variety. My friend has coined the phrase ‘financial diet’ and as self-explanatory as that is, I will explain to you my dilemma with a highly complex mathematical equation:

Where Money into bank account per fortnight = +M, and Money out of bank account per fortnight = -M:

-M > +M

Ideally the arrow would be facing the other way:

-M < +M

But alas, it is not.

This causes slight problems. It means that there is an increase in money charged to credit card (-M In Advance, otherwise known as -MIA).

And -MIA is always bad news.

The rules of the financial diet so far:

1. Stop eating lunch and dinner out every day.
2. Stop buying clothes with my credit card.

The problems with the rules of the financial diet:

1. I love going out for lunch and dinner.
2. I will have to wear the same things every day.

Sigh.