Frugal Living Today

I quit smoking two days ago.

This isn’t the first time I’ve gone smoke free and I have never had the severe withdrawal symptoms that many experience, thanks in no small way to a non-addictive personality that probably kept me from becoming an alcoholic in my youth as well. Every time I’ve quit though I am always on the lookout for those symptoms that others report - hyper sensitivity to the smell of smoke, for example. I never get those and I feel cheated somehow.

I quit this time because I am tired of wasting money on something as ridiculous as smoking cigarettes and I can think of at least 1,000 other productive uses for that money such as putting it into my savings account. Even if I put it in the stock market it has the chance of returning something to me, that’s a far cry better than smoking ever did for me.

I call this my “common sense bailout program”.