I really wanted to post here a little more often than never....such grand aspirations have I.
I've been experimenting with ways to strip expenses down to a bare minimum. Not that I'm an extravagant spender--kind of hard to be if you don't have it to spend in the first place. But still, I'd like to be able to save some money since my pets won't be around to take care of me when I'm too old to take care of myself. Which is getting more and more difficult these days as prices for the basics keep rising. I suppose supporting multiple people and animals on one paltry income doesn't help either.
Seen the price of gold lately? Silver's back up too. If I had the cash flow now, I'd be stocking up on some metal. That's a different type of saving.
I've been reducing my personal amount of food purchasing and intake. I've never been a breakfast eater, so I've always saved there. Trying to keep lunch under a dollar. I was feeling extravagant one day and spent 3 dollars. Dinner is normally shared, so it ends up being thrifty enough. Anyway, the result is I've spent a few weeks feeling pretty hungry. You'd think I'd be used to it by now.
To some degree, I feel I've hit an early "midlife" crisis. Feel like I've been in it for a while too. By this point, I would have expected some sort of return on all this investment I've put into life. I feel like instead life has just ransacked the vault and run away with everything I had in me.
I think the worst part might be that I've stopped dreaming. I used to vividly dream most every night. Maybe I'm not getting enough REM sleep. I find it disheartening.
No, I take that thought back. The worst part is that my one friend in the world has stopped listening.
