It’s Day Two of Month Six of my Minimum Wage Challenge. And my inner voice keeps whispering, “who cares….who cares….time wasted…..” What will I have if I succeed in my year? I know, I know, I’ll have a full appreciation, a lot of gratitude, a healthy savings account. But I’m in the mode where I’m thinking that it’s just pretty silly.
It’s not that I’m wanting to spend and can’t. Really. It’s just the little kid in me feeling bumptious. I’ll get over this feeling, and go back to feeling brave and wise and grateful and complete. Knowing that Enough is Enough, and Money is a Tool not a Goal.
Much Ado About Nothing
August 3rd, 2006 at 04:41 am
August 3rd, 2006 at 12:05 pm 1154603128
My fascination is less with the economics of your minimum wage challenge than with the insights you post about your reactions to the process. It's interesting to watch the self-analysis and the way you link it to the values of the larger society.
Socrates said, "The unexamined life is not worth living." I think you demonstrate the value and rewards of such an examination, and I appreciate the opportunity to follow along.
So there.
August 3rd, 2006 at 02:27 pm 1154611661
I love reading your journal entries here. It keeps reality in perspective, and really reminds me of my years when Dh and I were in university, had nothing but eachother and loads of financially challenged friends. We seriously saved our change for 2 months because a new McDonald's was opening up down the street and we wanted to go.
Of course our money situation has changed now, but we are still the same people we were then.
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must of been a bad dream....
Now, get back on that pedestal!!!
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August 7th, 2006 at 02:10 am 1154913039
I think my bad mood was one more related to the human ability to be in a bad mood than my challenge. At least for me, even when I can see it's silly, I sometimes get the blues about odd things.
I don't know about the 44,000 people-surely can't be-bu6 I've climbed back on the horse!
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