My roommate's boyfriend is an irresponsible spender. That's the truth. He thinks nothing of dropping $100.00 at a time on games he wasn't even planning on buying. Frequently.

I am an irresponsible spender in a very different way. I drop $100.00 on games I wasn't even planning on buying, but I spreeeeeaaaaadd it out over my entire pay period so it feels like less.

I am grateful for his ability to impulse buy. This week he found me the copy of ICO I've been looking for. With the case intact. I refuse to buy games without their proper cases. Out of relief from the fact that he won't have to lend me his copy anymore, he picked it up for me. Whoopee!

He's also located copies of Baten Kaitos for just $15.00... do I want one? Knowing it will probably be a couple of months before I'll be caught up on the last fifteen games I've bought recently? Knowing I'll play like mad during the long snowbound winter in Maine? Knowing that my phone bill was astronomical this month (boy, did I ever go over my minutes... :()? *Sigh* This is my irresponsible spending in action. I'll ponder it for a week or so, then I'll go out and buy it after I've already squandered most of my paycheck, thereby putting myself in serious danger of being unable to keep gas in my car.

I have such an attack of guilt every time I buy games. Not that it stops me.