I may have cut up the metaphorical credit cards & kissed my favorite hobby adieu, but Chris hasn't slowed down: he bought a car! I couldn't be more excited for him - it's exactly the car he wanted. Even though I can't get the cheap thrill of an expensive purchase, I can definitely live vicariously through others -- no rules against that!
Another big change: we might be getting a cat :). Both of us are allergic - of course, why make anything easy? - but Chris's brother has a cat, Ari, who is literally an amazing cat (acts like a dog) & he can't bring him to his new apartment. We are going to give him a test run in the apartment for a few days with some new toys.. but the moral of this story is .. I am in the car driving to go visit the kitty & I start brainstorming all the new things I could buy him! An "emery cat", a little cat house, toys, catnip, you get the idea.. when suddenly I realize - I can't buy the cat anything but necessities! Of course my next thought was "maybe we should wait to take the cat until I am through with this cleanse so I can buy him things..." - seriously, this is the way my brain works. Gotta work everything around my shopping schedule.. which I suppose is the reason I'm doing this in the first place.
Well, I have found that old phrase "necessity is the mother of invention" sort of applies here - because I can't spend, I have sort of found little ways to get around it: I used a friend's tan when I went tanning last time (no cost to me!) and Danny has offered to buy a bunch of cat toys & cat things for us tomorrow for when we take Ari (again, no cost to me!) It's like a little game - "How Thrifty Can You Be?" .. and I am definitely winning!
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