Fail: Booze ‘n Candy

I think we’ve found our weakness. Two of them anyway.

Our month of no spending was going pretty well until Friday. We had spent a total of zero dollars on anything up to that point. Voluntary hardship that has quickly produced some interesting and unintended results (more on this later.)

We had plenty of opportunities to spend money all week and just said no to all of them. On Friday, Bode asked for $1.50 for a bag of skittles from a vending machine before ski team. I just wanted to say “yes.” Buck fifty in the hole.

On Saturday, our buddies Scott and Elden came up from Boulder to ride the mountain and hang out. Since this little experiment is ours only – and not an attempt to leech off our friends – we splurged and bought some beer and wine. $60 at the “old 7-11” liquor store.

So, we’ve failed at a zero-spend month.

We’re not quitting, though. We intend to follow the spirit of the frugality challenge for the entire month. But, we see more spending ahead. We want to go to Denver to explore the city over the upcoming holiday weekend and that will require at least gasoline and museum fees. The reality of spending zero dollars a month is pretty damn hard if you actually want to do stuff.

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