One of the reasons to stop shopping, or at least tap the brakes, is the great chain of backwards causality: the less you buy, the less money you need; the less money you need, the less you have to work at a job; and the less you work, the more time you have for things you might rather be doing. Things the world as we know it does not see fit to reward with cash. Poetry leaps to mind.
So regardless of this month's experiment, living frugally has been a pursuit of mine for awhile. The question, though, is how to keep from taking frugality so far that it twists into miserliness. How to spend consciously and mindfully rather than compulsively and without considering the options. Got no answers tonight, no how-to's. It's just on my mind as I sit here hoping NBC will post the latest Tina Fey skit.
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