<prompt> Human: I am a senior in high school with a job. I dont work all that often, and only get around 300 every 2 weeks. My problem is that I keep spending all of it. Ive gotten around 1000 total so far, and as of this moment I have about 2 in my account. After I finish up my senior year of high school, I want to take a trip to Japan and then go back to the states. Obviously I need to start saving up money for that though. There were different ways that Ive thought of so far. One would be to just give my credit card to my parents and tell them to not give it back. The problem with that is after a little bit of time has passed I would force them to return it to me. The other would be to open a savings account. My mother brought up a good point and said that if I start putting my paychecks into the savings account, I would just start spending it from there. The LAST solution I could think of was to just go to the ATM every paycheck and withdraw a certain percent of my paycheck. I would then take that money home and keep it somewhere. Its much easier for me to save cash rather than saving money on my card. Is there any way I could FORCE myself to not spend my money? Like putting a lock on a savings account until it has a certain amount of money? I appreciate any suggestions.  <response>: You need to learn self control. Thats your issue. Learn it now while the stakes are low instead of later in life when you have much more to lose. I have two suggestions.First, every time you get a paycheck automatically put x in your savings account. If you get direct deposit your employer might be able to split your check so you never even see a portion of the money.The second idea is to use the envelope method. Make yourself a budget and for each item in the budget, have an envelope with that much money in it. When the envelop is empty, no more money can be spent in that category. Spend all your eating out money, but your friends want to go out? Too bad. Maybe next month youll spend your money more wisely so you can afford to go.Sure, you could avoid your self control issue by doing something like putting the money in your parents name so you cant get it, but that wont solve your problem or help you in the long run. Learn self control now. If you dont, well then you cant go to Japan. Every time you buy a drink at Starbucks youre deciding that drink is more important than your trip to Japan. 