"The Agony of Seven Days without Spending"
by Steve Almond, CNN.com
This article was somewhat like a day by day journal entry, where a man summarized his daily life in a week where he vowed to spend absolutly no money. At the begginning of his venture, he did not realized how difficult it would be to not spend anything. On his first day, after playing a game of Squash with his friend, he said "I'll buy us another [game].... Oh, wait a second...." quickly remembering he could not spend a cent. Midweek, the man realized "I spend a lot more money than I ever realized or would admit." One of the hardest things to turn down, had been to tell a child walking on the street with a sign asking for money in support for a children's homeless shelter, that he could not give any money. On the last day of his experiment, it was his wife's birthday, which he had to take the cheap way out, telling her he'd get her something later. I think this would probably be one of the hardest things to do, being that in our time we don't really realize how much money we actually spend.
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That is so true about the way we spend without thinking about it at all. I think it would be very hard to do something like that. The man must have had very strong will.
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