Life is made up of surprises and unexpected events. I know the greatest moments of my life have yet to come, but the recent change of pace and surroundings do give immense pleasure. A new home… Something I had been waiting for the last 3 and a half years. The wait was extended as I or rather both my wife and I have to add many more things to the new empty flat. Like the number of parts that make up an automotive, the number of stuff needed or wanted in a new home is comparable.
Yes, we have worked so hard to save in the past three years. Only to see the savings evaporating rapidly as in return, we perfected a dream home. I guess the price is a worthy one. It didn’t start off as an ambitious project. We heeded advice from close relatives and friends about perils of over-budgeting. Keep within a tight budget, they say. And we did. At least for the beginning. To defend our stand, the truth is prices are really high for everything now. With devalued USD and inflated world currencies, who can prevent a world wide inflation. As a country, you either bring down the value of your currency to the level relative to the USD or with strong backing, you increase the value of currency. But neither can stop inflation.
Therefore, we found a midrange interior design company to do some design works for us. We also engage them to do up all nice stuff they chunk up with. Amazingly, we kept within our budget.
We have long prepared the furniture in the new house, making quite a number of purchases during sale seasons of the year. Our purchase could be back-dated to last December. Though we had been warned of making purchases that won’t fit or suit in our “future” home (then), we were lucky that nothing serious turn out in the end. A couple of changes added costs but were definitely worth it. The rest of the earlier purchases fits perfectly. Some models have even discontinued and became great deals as new models cost almost double.
Well, the thing is the more confident you are, the more likely you can let things get out of hand. Due to the success we were enjoying with our purchases, we continue to buy everything that we think we may use in our new home. While we are still buying the right things and the right brands, we are no longer buying for basic needs. We have stretched beyond lower levels of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. So at the same time, we blew the budget.
We are now both bearing the fruits of our smart investing and suffering from overdose. Currently, I am still waiting for the final shock of the month. Bills from the third bank that we have happily used their credit to make some “wonderful” purchases.
Only consolation now is the joy I derive from watching the large flat screen internet tv, getting automated massage from petite chairs, and building castles in the air while laying on the king sized bed…
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