My own compromise when it comes to frugality regarding notebooks is that I purchase them used from thrift stores. It seems there is a surplus of students who give up scholarship and thus I am pretty much always able to find used 3-ring binders in fine shape for a price of approximately 99 cents. Typing at my rate of one page per day, I find two standard-sized notebooks sufficient for a year's worth of my musings. Spending less than two dollars per anum makes me feel that I am not over-valuing my vanity in the cause of record keeping.
As to the foregoing of automobile ownership, I heartily recommend it. In addition to discouraging my native tendencies to sloth by enforcing an element of exercise into my methods of locomotion, the lack of automotive expenses has enabled me to channel my admittedly finite fiscal resources into machines I find more conducive to contemplation, namely bicycles and typewriters.
Wishing you all the best in 2023 and a continued speedy recovery. I intend to heed your wise advice in the upcoming year and will, with luck, continue to keep on truckin'.
Happy New Year Mike! Well, Mrs. M & I have forced ourselves into Mid-night on New Year's Eve for 22 years now. It's a tradition that started when we first met. Hope your are well on your way to fully mending. I happened to get a several year supply of 3 inch binders from one of my former employers that I've used for my typewritten journal. I get one to 2 years into each depending on how much I type any given day. Now that I have run out, I also go to thrift stores where I can get nice binders at a cost of anywhere from 25 to 99 cents each and even some at 3 for a dollar. Most are 1-1/2" and hold about a year's worth of typing. When I run out of space, I remove the pages from the binders and fasten them together with binder bolts and keep them in reutilized copy paper boxes. I put a packing list on all my boxes so I can find what I need when I want something. Hopefully the box is not under a bunch of others. I live in a storage room, literally. We never moved out of our tiny house into a real house. The pandemic hit a bit too soon and put our plans on indefinite hold. Oh, or normal living space is not a storage room. Too cold here to ride my bicycle. I used to ride even in the snow when I was younger. I'm farther South than Kent, but on the wrong side of the lake--generally too much snow and traffic.
Mike,
ReplyDeleteMy own compromise when it comes to frugality regarding notebooks is that I purchase them used from thrift stores. It seems there is a surplus of students who give up scholarship and thus I am pretty much always able to find used 3-ring binders in fine shape for a price of approximately 99 cents. Typing at my rate of one page per day, I find two standard-sized notebooks sufficient for a year's worth of my musings. Spending less than two dollars per anum makes me feel that I am not over-valuing my vanity in the cause of record keeping.
As to the foregoing of automobile ownership, I heartily recommend it. In addition to discouraging my native tendencies to sloth by enforcing an element of exercise into my methods of locomotion, the lack of automotive expenses has enabled me to channel my admittedly finite fiscal resources into machines I find more conducive to contemplation, namely bicycles and typewriters.
Wishing you all the best in 2023 and a continued speedy recovery. I intend to heed your wise advice in the upcoming year and will, with luck, continue to keep on truckin'.
Happy New Year Mike!
ReplyDeleteWell, Mrs. M & I have forced ourselves into Mid-night on New Year's Eve for 22 years now. It's a tradition that started when we first met.
Hope your are well on your way to fully mending.
I happened to get a several year supply of 3 inch binders from one of my former employers that I've used for my typewritten journal. I get one to 2 years into each depending on how much I type any given day.
Now that I have run out, I also go to thrift stores where I can get nice binders at a cost of anywhere from 25 to 99 cents each and even some at 3 for a dollar. Most are 1-1/2" and hold about a year's worth of typing. When I run out of space, I remove the pages from the binders and fasten them together with binder bolts and keep them in reutilized copy paper boxes. I put a packing list on all my boxes so I can find what I need when I want something. Hopefully the box is not under a bunch of others. I live in a storage room, literally. We never moved out of our tiny house into a real house. The pandemic hit a bit too soon and put our plans on indefinite hold. Oh, or normal living space is not a storage room.
Too cold here to ride my bicycle. I used to ride even in the snow when I was younger. I'm farther South than Kent, but on the wrong side of the lake--generally too much snow and traffic.