whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer
We are in week four of Project iPod, wherein I give up beer (and all other alcoholic beverages) and put the money towards an iPod fund (kind of like lent, except I've replaced god with an iPod). It's been going pretty well. I have significantly decreased my alcohol consumption, although I did order a beer at the Arlington Drafthouse last night. That was my first real slip up--and what a good slip up it was--, but ultimately I have saved a lot of money, and the iPod fund is doing well.
But. As these weeks pass, and I am spending increasing amounts of time totally stone-cold sober, I've realized that life post-iPod is not that different than life with an iPod. I've compensated pretty well, and the gaping hole I thought its absence would leave is actually more like a pinprick of inconvenience. Between the tape player and the disc man in my car, and the vast amounts of music I've been burning onto CDs lately, I haven't really felt the pain, so to speak.
Also, I'm not so sure how well the iPod fund sits with my morals. (Goddamn morals always getting in the way). It just feels a little wrong, and honestly, it seems to me like the height of consumerism and excess. To give up one vice in order to satisfy a ridiculously first-world craving.
So what to do?
I could continue putting money in the jar and then at the end of 10 weeks put it into my savings, I could put it towards something else I want or need, or I could just put it towards rent/food/insurance/electricity.
Do I bring Project iPod to a screeching halt, or do I keep it going? That is the question.
But. As these weeks pass, and I am spending increasing amounts of time totally stone-cold sober, I've realized that life post-iPod is not that different than life with an iPod. I've compensated pretty well, and the gaping hole I thought its absence would leave is actually more like a pinprick of inconvenience. Between the tape player and the disc man in my car, and the vast amounts of music I've been burning onto CDs lately, I haven't really felt the pain, so to speak.
Also, I'm not so sure how well the iPod fund sits with my morals. (Goddamn morals always getting in the way). It just feels a little wrong, and honestly, it seems to me like the height of consumerism and excess. To give up one vice in order to satisfy a ridiculously first-world craving.
So what to do?
I could continue putting money in the jar and then at the end of 10 weeks put it into my savings, I could put it towards something else I want or need, or I could just put it towards rent/food/insurance/electricity.
Do I bring Project iPod to a screeching halt, or do I keep it going? That is the question.