Rollin' that Dough

I’ve never really been terrible at wisely spending money or negotiating but I never truly appreciated the important of saving until year I decided I wanted the PS Vita.
The PS Vita is essentially a more advanced version of the PSP and when I was younger I owned my own PSP, unfortunately it came to learn what the weight of a full sized truck feels like after a short stint out on our dirt road in Missouri. Don’t ask me how it got there, to this very day I would like to know the answer to that as well. Anyway when I first learned about the PS Vita I was psyched. However, one particular issue grew out of this situation, my parents weren’t paying for it after what had happened to my previous handheld, the PSP. This dropped all the responsibility onto my shoulders , if I really wanted this device I was going to have to raise the money myself.
So for the next couple of months I spent a lot of time discovering and completing random jobs for money. Many of them actually paid quite nicely but they weren’t sufficient, so when Christmas rolled around the corner I did what any logical child would have done, I asked the family members that were most likely to say yes for cash to finish paying for this thing.
This entire experience of fishing for jobs, raising my own money, wisely spending it, and negotiating for cash taught me quite a few things. Such as work can be discovered just about anywhere so if you’re really in a pinch for cash you just need to think outside of the box, it also taught me that sometimes you need to rely on others, but most importantly it taught me that when you buy something with your own money it’s a lot more valuable and you will probably treat it like a child like I did with my Vita, my family wasn’t even allowed to look at it.