Principle of Delayed Gratification

When one is adhering to this principle, you don't eat out a bunch. You don't go to see movies at the movie theater a lot, you make coffee at home and you get your books from the library. You look through the Boise Weekly's "Eight Days Out" section for all the activities that have a price listing of "Free" at the bottom. You try not to use more than half a tank of gas a week (even though it's cheaper now...) and you're on your bike in the cold with nice, warm hats when you exceed the limit. When you do buy things, you try to stick to the essentials and even when your purchases don't fit that description, you try to buy from the "little guys." Strip clubs, copious amounts of alcohol, and even feeding small, volunteer movie crews: all those things are out the window.

There is a reason you're doing this.

You're trying to travel. Get out there in the world when you have some time away from work and see some places and people and hopefully have a little bit of money to spend when you're in those places...

Utah, Nevada, California, Alaska: there are people to see, and hikes to take, and, yes, movies to start shooting in each of these places and since you're not a Travel TV Show Host, you have to do it on the cheap. Is it more worth it, this way? More of a sense of gratification from a job well done? That sort of thing? Damn, if it probably is:)...