Quote Originally Posted by olstyn View Post
If you're spending that much on it, how is the financial motivation alone not enough to make you quit? $8/day is almost $3000/year. I wish I had a spare $3K/year to just dump - I'd have a GTP, I'd get some cool stuff for my wife, *and* my car would get some fun upgrades. Quit and you can instantly afford a car payment you couldn't previously justify, or you can buy 50 new full-price new release video games every year, or you can go out to dinner way more often, or you could put it all away in a college fund for your kid, or whatever trips your trigger, but that's a LOT of money to be spending on something that has no benefit and only serves to up your cancer risk and make you smell bad.
I agree completely! Sometimes I will see a $5000 pair of earrings I want and think, "Yeah, right!" But really, I get a pretty awesome discount and if I were to go to work every morning and hand my boss $8, I'd have them in six months (that was a guess, it's too early for math). It's funny how I don't even bother to justify giving 7-11 $8 a day, but when I see an expensive something that I want, I think, "You couldn't possibly spend that much money on yourself, you selfish woman!" Ha HA!

A big part of it is changing my perspective. Baby steps....