When Life is Good, Don't Muck it Up

You know what I mean.  Life is going good,  the sun is shining, birds are singing. Tra la, tra la.  Bills are paid, taxes filed (minimal refund coming), auto insurance paid for another year, money in the bank.  Wouldn't this be a great time to _________??? 

Take a trip?  Maybe a cruise?  I check out itinararies, air fares, prices.  Then I ask myself: WHY?  All the places I think about going are similar to where I live.  All the things I think about doing I can do at home.  I don't need to get on a plane to go somewhere else to walk a beach.   The reason I moved to the Caribbean forty years ago was to be where I wanted to be, in the climate I wanted to live in, and not wait until retirement to make it happen.   I don't need to go anywhere else to be happy.  All I have to do is look through my window. 

Buy a tiny house?  I am nuts about tiny houses!  I love them, I covet them.  I want one!!!  I drool over floor plans.  Wait a minute!  What am I thinking?  I live in a 400 square foot apartment (485 square feet with covered balcony) that I adore.  That's a tiny house!  I already have what I want.  I don't need a second home.  Anywhere.

Okay, then.  SHOP.  I love shopping.  BUT....having just finished a re-read of "Confessions of a Shopaholic" (paperback purchased for $0.10 at a flea market) perhaps shopping is not such a good idea.  I don't need anything.  I shop every two weeks for groceries, with stops at the big box stores where I usually walk out empty-handed.   I don't have ROOM for anything else.  I live in a tiny house! 

You get my point....when life is good, don't shoot yourself in the foot just because you can.  If less is more, then more is definitely a drain on your bank account.  Love what you already have.

Penny Pincher