July was an exercise in and of itself. Between dental appointments and buying parts for the pick-up, I started to believe I might not match June's number of No-Spend Days. Then I came up with another idea. I have a 45 kilometer, 35 minute commute to get to work. This requires me to get gasoline twice a week, especially since my gas gauge is malfunctioning and I'd rather not run out of gas. So, by routine, I get gas on Mondays, same day of my mortgage payment and then Friday night, on the way home from work. I dug out of my garage a 5 gallon gas can and now on Mondays, I fill up the gas can as well. This means I will not have to stop and fill up my tank on Fridays. I can thereby include Fridays as No-Spend Days now. And that is how I got up to 18 No-Spend Days this July.That brings me to the next point. At Ottaway Motor Express, there actually is an Ottaway family running the place. Son of owner Mark Ottaway, Peter, who always seems to have his mug glued to two monitors simultaneously whilst juggling land lines and cell phones, sometimes multiplexing between shippers and drivers at the same time, let me know that every once in a while he will enter Ottaway Motor Express into the search bar to see what the World Wide Web holds in store. Oops, he found my little blog and had good chuckle. He quizzes me constantly about my No-Spend Days. One minute Peter is worried that I will be depriving myself of life experiences if I don't spend any money. The next he wonders how I can get fresh produce if I only grocery shop once a week. Then he tests me by asking the difference between discretionary and disposal income and whether I even need to account for non-impulse purchases. So I stand there and mumble and babble. Standing and talking - not at the same time, please!
All I know is I'm getting tired of being a conduit for money. It seems my only real job, in essence, is to earn and spend it all. Even my political leaders tell me to do that. It rings rather hollow. After a lifetime of dispersing my earnings, what will I have to show for it all? This is what I need to tackle.
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Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your older articles are not as good as newer ones you have a lot more creativity and originality now keep it up!
Hello Anon: Kind, medicinal words indeed. I've been feeling under the weather for the last several months and I'm hoping (fingers crossed) that the worst of it is behind me. As my body heals and I wean myself off the meds, I hope to get back posting and work. In the mean time, I'm a bit wobbly and hazy. Bear with me.
Not bad article, but I really miss that you didn't express your opinion, but ok you just have different approach
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