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I’m normally very competitive when it comes to balling. A couple years ago with a 50k roll I was keeping up in blackjack and roulette with millionaire friends of mine. If somebody’s spending ridiculous amounts of money, I try my best to keep up But today I got out-balled by a non-poker player whom I have more money then. I feel ashamed just posting this.
I have two roommates in New York (just got the keys to the place yesterday, moving in tomorrow) and one of them is a computer assistant at a hedge fund. He’s not even a trader, he’s just a tech guy. He makes decent money and today we were trying to figure out who would get what room and for how much. The two rooms in contention between us were one sick one that was twice as big as the other. The smaller room would barely have room for a queen sized bed and a desk, so I’d have to get a full-sized bed if I want to have room to maneuver and store my clothes and random belongings. After a long series of negotiations, my roommate offered to pay $2200/month for the sick room and I’d only have to pay $1450/month for the inferior one. And for some reason I agreed.
Now, the difference on the year between paying for the sick room and paying for the worse room is 9k. I made 10k today and am up 22k in 12,000 hands of 5/10 this month. There’s really no reason why I should have cared about 9k enough to not get the way sweeter room. I think it might be a sign that I’m finally starting to take money seriously or it could be just some neurotic characteristic of mine that I’m more willing to spend 9k on a bunch of little things (sneakers, shirts, DVDs, etc.) than I am to spend money in bulk. Or maybe it’s just that I realized that I somehow managed to spend 130k last year (without buying a car or anything similarly substantial) and I’m trying to keep down my expenses this year so I don’t look back at ridiculous expenditures and wonder what I have to show for all the money I spent. Either way, for some reason I decided I care enough about 9k to accept a way worse bedroom to live in for the next year, and in the process got out-balled. I guess I’m starting to become a nit with money.
With that said, I just bought $500 worth of t-shirts from digital gravel between the start and end of my writing this post and these sweet shoes.. Yeah they’re a year old but I looked for them in my size for forever (hard finding size 13 shoes sometimes)and finally found them.
