Tighten the Purse Strings

The gut wrenching feeling you get when you decide to sort out your finances, you just know something bad is waiting for you on your online banking. As you type in your details and hit the 'view statement' button, a sense of dread fills over you. I personally cross my fingers and close my eyes when doing so in some desperate attempt to some how not be faced with what is ultimately a total financial disaster. For once, just once I would like Barclays to inform me that I am in fact not a poor arse student, with a shopping addiction and a few too many nights out under my belt. I would love it to display the spending of a money conscious, wealthy young person with the amenities to go on a major shopping spree if she so desires. However I know this is never going to happen. I think I should be banned from town as the temptation to shop is to over powering for me. Although I would like to think that it is down to my friends bad influence that has me spending, but the truth is I know deep down that we both encourage each other with our addictions. I do not however wish to develop an eating disorder due to my lack of funds to spend on food, so I have devised a very clever plan, do the food shop before all my bursary money goes on new clothes. I will have to come to terms with the fact I will be a broke arse student for another year, choosing to ignore my dads words of 'Please not more shoes Kylie' I shall continue to close my eyes and cross my fingers on the rare occasion that I check my balance, and maybe one day I won't be depressed with amount that I am shown. If anyone knows a good shopaholics anonymous group I could join that also may be a solution.