Money Well Spent or Is It?

Every month I go over my financial statement, and attempt to create a budget. How much I spent on food, did I pay all of my bills or did I make partial payments (you know enough to keep the lights on)? The one thing I can’t account for is how much I’m going to spend on an eleven year old girl!!! Every time I think I’m good she comes waltzing in my room with another request for cash. The most annoying thing is her requests are not outrageous. My daughter isn’t one of those kids always begging for things and throwing hissy fits in department stores. I just get frustrated when I’ve allocated cash for something I wanted, and like a bill collector here comes the baby “I need knee pads for volleyball”, or “The basketball team is taking pictures today even though I just paid for regular school pictures two weeks ago” WHEN DOES IT END! It starts to anger me because I don’t want to be a tight pocket, always complaining about not having money. That will affect her and eventually she will stop asking to participate in extracurricular activities. So what does that mean; Daddy has to bring in more bread. I haven’t even mentioned our daddy daughter dates, that sometimes include a classmate. Don’t get me wrong seeing her smile is definitely worth it, but Poppa wants a new pair of shoes (actually brown combat boots from ASOS). The worse thing is I haven’t started her college fund yet, the goal is to start investing in monthly savings bonds so by the time she is eighteen paying for college isn’t such a financial burden on her or me. This is my arena to vent, now that I got it off my chest back to the drawing board!