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Reading the comments on an article at Get Rich Slowly, wherein J.D. asked people what they wish they could tell their younger selves. I hit this comment, which made me go Bzuh?!

I wish I could tell myself as a kid not to waste my allowance on stupid crap. I spent it on stuff that I’ve grown out of, like kid’s fiction. Thinking of the total over the years makes me wince.

So ... what should you have bought instead? Grown-up fiction that you didn't like then, because you'd grow into it later?

(I know the poster probably meant that they should have saved it instead of spending it, but the concept of not buying a book I'd like to read now because I won't want to read it at some point in the future is just ... alien.)

Comments

[lady_ganesh]

Yeah, that's a lot of bzuh.

[selenite.livejournal.com]

I want to whack my 18-year-old self on the head and tell him to change his major to something less dead-end.