You can laugh at me all you like, I still like to go to Starbucks for my $1.45 coffee in the morning. FWIW I get a $0.15 discount for always using my ceramic cup (they even wash it for me at Starbucks).

The amazing thing is all the same people I see every day getting $4.00 venti-whip-triple-shot-whatevers… If you get one every day that’s $4×365 or $1460 per year… This is 1.5% of a $100k salary. Thoughts like this pervade my every waking moment lately. Damned economic news inundation!

Speaking of wastefulness, my tax return was 76 pages. We should start a contest to see whose tax returns had the most pages!