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Gil...why come every time i get up enough gil (e.x. 179,000gil)
i stupidly go and blow it on evryone else or give it away or buy armor & drop it...so now i need a money manager

send in ur applications today!

Because you have it.

Its human nature to neglect something you already have and take it for granted. Reason being is because you don't feel the remorse or guilt or hurt from it till long after its gone. Once you have something and loose it, you miss it. If you have something, but don't loose it, its just something you have and you don't concider paying it more attention. Finally, if you never have something, you'll never miss it because you don't know what it was like to have it initially.

The saying: "The grass is always greener on the other side." kinda comes to mind... Therefore, you have to pre-plan your gil. Before you buy that lvl 20 gear to add +1 DEF to your current lvl 18 gear... ask yourself if you need it... or if you'll need the gil in 10 levels when you need a lvl 30 armor that adds +8 DEF +2 AGI and +1 STR (Just making up stats).

Right now, I have a blm, whm and rdm. I don't mind playing any of the three, but I need gear and spells for all three too. I've got a good amount of gear collected up. I don't resell my gear till I'm done with any and all jobs that use that gear... providing that job interests me and I wanna level it. I have a mule that stores any unlearned spells and any unused gear for any jobs that I have. So now, I only have to worry about spells. However, each spell being 20k+, I have to decide which is more important... Barblizzard or Poison II? Gravity or Thunder II?

Some tough decisions, but I don't have the gil for both. Whenever I have in the past, I'd buy both. Why? Cause I could afford to. However, push come to shove, I probably don't use 12k worth of my spells EVER and could have used that for my next spell instead.

quest for Warp, Aspir, Drain, Warp II, any and all teleports... you'll save a LOT of gil. I'm dead serious about checking out the quests & missions by area section (if you haven't already)... you'd be surprised how much gil you could make, and how much gil you could save from buying stuff from NPC's. Ex) I can buy Pickaxes for 190 gil pretty much anywhere. Its a couple hundred cheaper than buying them from AH... then with the mining equip (cost 20k initially), I can make about 1.2-2k per pickaxe on an average/good day.

You are so right, I started over about 2 weeks back at I took that line of thinking and I seem to have much more gil then when I did the first go around.