Why Nonsumer?

My wife and I went on a savings spree a while back. We were concerned about not knowing where our money was going. I for one was concerned with my weekly expense of $300 for lunch, coffee and etc...

Being a programmer I thought I would use this as an oportunity to write a pocket pc application to track my spending. It was a fun little app and did it's job admirably. Of course I discovered it was easier to not spend money at all than it was to remember to enter my expenses.

On the occasional day I went without conducting commerce I would report to the Mrs that I had been a nonsumer for that day.

Now think about that. Of course I had been to work. I had traded the results of my labor for hourly compensation. I had used gasoline in my car and eaten food purchased from the grocery days before. Commerce still occured.

But I had avoided the corporate coffee house. I had planned my week better to keep gas in the tank. I made my lunch.

Being a nonsumer, even for one day, fealt pretty good.