Husband Has Wasted Much Money
Hi, I was just reminiscing about all this money that my husband has wasted over the years. I think I need to start a new blog called Pushover Wife. Two large sums wasted:
1. Wasted Money on Expensive Gym: We lived in Arlington, Virginia, and my husband wanted a gym membership. There were 2 gyms very close to us: the YMCA and the REALLY super expensive gym in the Ballston Mall. So, of course, my husband needs to choose the expensive one at the mall because of “the hours.” (What hours? He had a part-time job!) Whatever. So, he gets that one. $70 a month. Yeah, so YMCA was only $30–the HOURS, he needs the convenient hours. Then guess what. HE WENT TWO TIMES IN A YEAR. Then to stop the membership cost us $200. So, let’s do the math: $70 x 10 months (or more) = $700 + $200 = $900. There we go, $900 wasted dollars. Yaaaaaaay.
2. Unnecessary Waste on U-haul Moving Van: Soon after this gym catastrophe, we moved from Arlington, VA to Reston, VA. My husband was in charge of the moving van. Thank goodness, because he literally did NOTHING else–except load the van (but that’s van-related). Didn’t pack one, single box.
I advised him to call friends to help us move our things. Oh no, he says, I’ll do it myself. Okay, honey, do it yourself. That’s a really smart plan–that’s why everyone always avoids calling people for help when they move–because it’s just plain smart. This was only one of his many brilliant moving theories. We have moved 8 times in 9 years of marriage.
So, he loads the van and drives it to Reston. Well, low and behold, he was so sore after loading all that stuff in the van that he could barely move for days. We reserved the U-haul for one day. ONE. Guess how many days it sat in front of our apartment? FOUR DAYS. This made a LOT of people mad:
1) Obviously, it made me mad. My STUFF was in the van, not the apartment.
2) It made our neighbor super mad. This was the guy who had the parking space beside us, as in, beside our MOVING VAN in the space sized for a car. His family gave us dirty looks for that until they moved out of the complex. So embarrassing.
3) It made U-haul furious. They YELLED at my husband when he drove the van back. Total cost for one day: $75. Total cost for 4 days: $300. Flat out waste–may as well have thrown $225 into a garbage can.
Tip: I’m putting a link to Upack here–it’s a company that helps you move by driving the van (but YOU pack the van). Used them to move from Virginia to California–saved LOTS.