Following recession are you extra careful about spending your hard earned money?

Im careful but not that extra careful.LOL I just love to spend on food and snacks so I really cannot help myself in those kind of spending. Im currently still a student so I do get some allowance. But I also have the awareness that I want to help my parents with the finances and not be that much of a burden anymore. That's why Im trying to earn some online for my extra spending. I dont want to put my extravagances and luxuries still on my parents' tab, when its my 'wants'. I prefer to be able to pay for my 'wants' with my own earnings and to help a bit with the other school fees with a part of my online earnings. I guess its a good thing that I dont have that much and that many 'wants'. I just love food and that would be it.LOL

Having been a single parent on a low income for a while now, I have always had to be careful with what I spend, but I have found that I have been extra careful lately. I am lucky that, as a nurse, I will always be able to find work, but I think that the wealth that the government here in britain is squandering should be better distributed in these credit crunch times.