Spending money to save money - how to balance?
I’ve been searching ebay for diaper coupons off and on today. Since we moved I’ve stopped receiving the ads and fliers I used to receive and I hardly ever get useful diaper coupons by mail now and I need to buy my son diapers next week. Unlike my daughter, who can wear any kind of diaper without a problem, only very expensive diapers fit him and don’t leak so I try to use big money coupons as much as possible. A better way to cut this expense would be to potty train him…. we’re trying. He’s resisting. 
Bah. I love spending so much money on something my son goes to the bathroom in.
But anyway. I found coupons I was interested in that haven’t been bid on, the auction expires soon, and the starting bid is very low. A coupon for my son’s diapers and also a coupon for the store brand diapers I prefer for my daughter in the same auction. Yay!
The coupons are “unlimited” use — you can buy as many cases as you want and receive the discount on each case. And they expire mid July so I’d have to use it now or lose it. I only budgeted the money for one case of diapers for each of them per month, and even with the coupons buying an extra case will put that category over budget. Do I buy two each? Do I even buy three for my son’s for his are more expensive and the discount helps more? Do I destroy my budget this month before I have hardly started? I’ll make it up eventually as months go by that I won’t have to buy diapers, but I also have to try and stay within some reasonable parameters so we don’t go broke in the process.
Decisions decisions. In a few hours I’ll either win the auction and have some thinking to do, or I’ll lose and go on my merry way. But the issue will still remain — how much money should I spend now to save money later?
Things to ponder.
~J
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