Do you remember the first time you felt like a baller? I do.

It was my first time at an outlet mall in the US. I was a first-year college student, and I had a $600 USD allowance to buy winter clothes. This was a HUGE thing for a dude who’s grown up all his life wearing polo tees from Giordano.

Now, most first-year college students don’t have any concept about saving for the future*, and I was no exception. Once I started buying clothes from Zara and Armani Exchange, I was like “Awww yeaaaa, I’m makin’ it rainnnnn!!”

This was me back in college

I blew the entire $600 in a day on clothes that I wore for 2 years before giving them away. Now, when I look back how dumb I was, I just laugh. (A part of me also wishes I could go back in time to ...