Friday, September 4, 2009

Day 35: Money, Money, Money, It's Always Sunny, In A Rich Man's World

I was surprised to open my wallet today and discover that there are eight one dollar bills in there. As I puzzled over where it came from, I realized that those eight bills have been there for almost three or four weeks now. Although it may seem to be unremarkable to anyone else, it means all the world to me.

I usually don't carry cash around with me, and I haven't for years. I tend to use my debit card for everything. If I ever did find money in my pockets, it was never a lengthy visitor. Sometimes I would join my co-workers and order lunch from some local eatery. (Some of them order out every day!) However, my vice of choice was often the vending machines in the lunch room. There's nothing healthy in those things—they're loaded with sodas and chips and candy bars. But that didn't stop me. If I had the dough, I would spend it on some junk snack like an addict getting a quick fix.

Which is why I was surprised to find eight dollars in my wallet. I wasn't use to it still being there. This is one of the many positive benefits of PCP—I'm not sinking money into that boxy black hole of illness. I am eight dollars richer than I thought I was and my body is a million times better for it!

4 comments:

  1. Ha! That's awesome! Yeah, I saved a truckload of cash because the PCP stopped me from going out for dinner save at Indulgence time. Save those eight bucks for the new clothes you're gonna need when the PCP is over.

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  2. So true and could not agree more...Another positive benefit...lets add it to the list !!

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  3. The list of benefit goes on. No one would grudge those new clothes Sean. So desperately want to get there.

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