Investment for the Future

I've decided I'm going to quit smoking. For Good.

Like every other smoker, I've tried off and on for the better part of a year. This time, with the help of the blog, perhaps I'll be successful.

In that vein, I committed the cardinal sin of withdrawing $40 from my savings account to buy 108 mint-flavored 4mg nicotine lozenges at Walgreen's. However, that's probably not a bad thing.

I typically spend at least $3 a day on cigarettes- that's not counting the cost of a lighter, the soda I buy with them (only because I'm in the store) or the various snacks.

If we assume a daily price of $3.50 (not too unreasonable) that means that within a year I'll have saved $1277.50. Within two years, it'll be $2500. That's a lot of money. If I found over a thousand dollars on the side of the road, I'd tell everybody I knew for the next ten years. And yet I contentedly set that money on fire ever year. Ridiculous, I know.

I will replace the $40 with money from our next check- since we won't be using it for cigarettes, that shouldn't be a problem.

Total money saved: $3,170.36