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January 30 2007: Dammit, I am mature!

Filed under Fashion & Money

After having had my mother manage my business and money affairs for the past twenty years, I decided to take things into my own hands.

I spent the majority of last night collating and filing all official correspondence that I had received over the past ten years - bank statements, superannuation account statements, government Youth Allowance statements, tax returns, correspondence about the shares I own, mobile phone bills, Internet bills, university bills, paychecks from the three ‘official’ jobs I’ve had since turning fifteen…basically all money-related matters.

All this correspondence is now contained within four folders, strategically filed under certain categories (monies received, monies owned, future monies, monies paid) and placed in my bedside drawer.

I wonder what an archaeologist would make of one of my standard bank statements if they were to come across it in fifty years time:

That’s part of my statement from November last year. Looking at that…my god, I have a lingerie fetish! It seems like half my expenditure is on lingerie.

10 Responses to “Dammit, I am mature!”

  1. What are government Youth Allowance statements?

    And it’s ok to spend money at places like La Figure Lingerie and Bras N’ Things. Good quality products are worth the money.

    Reply: Youth Allowance is like a social security pension that most uni students get from the government if their family doesn’t earn over X amount each month. I get about $200 a fortnight from the government to help support my living expenses - though this money goes straight into my mum’s account to pay for my board/food/bills.

    Jennifer on January 30 2007 #

  2. For me, it’s Victoria’s Secret, and I rarely spend my own money. I like to call up the ‘rents lol.

    Corinne on January 30 2007 #

  3. Dude, your mother did that for you for twenty years? I think I’ve been managing mine since I started high school, or at least for as long as I can remember .

    Good on you, starting managing it by yourself!

    Chans on January 30 2007 #

  4. …that’s what I was thinking. I usually shred my old bank statements (they depress me), but if I’d taken stock of them, archaeologists would think I lived in a bookshop.

    I think when I start work (got one lined up in July with little to no hassle involved, woo hoo!) I’ll probably start taking more care with them, I guess. Usually I only look at them to check my loan has gone in and my fees gone out. Though I didn’t have to worry about fees this year.

    Mazzie on January 30 2007 #

  5. My bank statements for the last month would sadly look like I live on ebay…

    There are worse things to have a fetish over then lingerie :P

    Noemi on January 31 2007 #

  6. Hm… I guess there could be worse things to have a fetish for.

    Hannah on January 31 2007 #

  7. I tear my statements up… is that bad?

    They just show money going out, and the same amount of money going back in when my girlfriend decides to take whatever I’ve bought her back to the shop.

    Doran on January 31 2007 #

  8. I’m clearly elderly at heart, as I cannot WAIT for the day I have to start sifting through bank statements and the like. Maybe I am just too big of a nerd to be sixteen-years-old or something. I DON’T KNOW.

    And, lingerie is SEXIEZZZZ.

    Reply: You do know that I’m still waiting for you to come to Australia and ravish me right? ;)

    Jon on January 31 2007 #

  9. Chans - it may be surprising to you, but that’s how Asian parents are … well most of them, anyway.

    Amanda - now that you’re managing your own money affairs, can you manage mine when I’m older? I’m probably the world’s sloppiest person :P, I wouldn’t have folders, it’d probably be lost somewhere… :|

    Reply: I’ll start charging for my organisational skills y’know. I’ll give you a discount though…say….oh…..$30 an hour? ;)

    Jennii on January 31 2007 #

  10. I have good organisational skills but… I am disastrous with money. My £5-10 weekly pocket money always seems to get lost in the black hole of my bedroom. Hurrah for beginning work this year!

    Amber on January 31 2007 #

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