Burning a hole in your pocket

An experience I’ve had that has taught me patience was when I needed a new phone and bought one but got a newer one for my birthday which was 3 months later. My family and I had gone to Florida to go to Epcott and also visit some of our cousins Amber, Mikey, and their children Annabelle and Oliver at the time Annabelle was 5 or 6 and Oliver was around a year old. I had saved up around 500 dollars to go shopping when I got to Florida with my Mom and Memere saving this money had taken a long time and a lot of patience to not spend it on other things because I knew if I waited I would see something in Florida. Later on in the trip, we went to Orlando where we had a hotel and we had gone shopping but there wasn’t much that I liked so I didn’t spend much money.

We had gone on the trip to Florida in March 2019 and at this time I still had a silver iPhone 6 which was kind of older at the time and I was starting to experience problems with it this was a problem because I needed a working phone so this is what caused me to buy a new phone the problems with my phone occurred before our trip I have a hard time waiting so it took a lot out of me to not buy a new phone before the trip. When we got back to Maine from Florida I still had around 300 dollars left when we had gotten back from our trip so I decided that with that money I would buy a new phone. The iPhone 7 was only 300 and my mom had given me the money for taxes so I could buy it this was around April. My birthday is June 1st and for my birthday my mom had gotten me a new phone this created a conflict between my mom and me one of the things my mom said was”You should be grateful for what you get” This helped me better understand that I shouldn’t have been mad. At the time I was happy and also upset because if she would’ve just told me when I bought the other one I wouldn’t have wasted my money and I explained this to her and she told me “I can return it if you want me to.” I then changed my mind about being upset and realized to be grateful and learned the lesson that if I would’ve just waited and had the patience I wouldn’t have wasted my money my mom helped me reach this conclusion.

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