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I'm late to the month-end round-up; time to take a meeting!
It's my usual mixed bag. After having bought five books per month for the first three months of the year, a last-minute expiring credit from Amazon pushed my April total to six. I spent $18 for the month, which also bumped up my average; I've now spent $58 for the first third of the year. The April issue was that old bugaboo of spending money to save money; I had several coupons that needed to be used and I had to top them off. I only bought wishlist books; so it goes.
My year-to-date totals are trivial compared to the splurgey years, but my ongoing problem remains that I'm still buying them faster than I read them, given so many alternative sources for books. The encouraging aspect is that I don't expect more coupons to land in my inbox, so with luck I'll start to chip away a bit in May.
The real lesson is that while I've gotten far more selective in my purchases, I need to tighten the noose more. No matter how good the deal, if I never get to it, it's money wasted.
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