Outside the Box

Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.-- Stephen Covey

True in oh so many facets of my life, and I bet for others as well.  I just have to keep in mind what I want 'eventually' to keep me satisfied currently.  Speaking of currently-- I have been in a funk, somewhat.  Physically I feel fine.  Mentally I'm looking forward to the last day of February and Spring.  What I have been obsessing over is saving money.  After listening to the forecasters predict gas rising to $5 a gallon I forewarned the girls that when it reached $4 a gallon they were transporting themselves to school.  Yesterday morning my oldest daughter's inability to answer a question correctly concerning whose job it was exactly caused her feet to convey her body to the schoolhouse.  After this morning my morning chauffeur duties cease on Monday.  
Another shocker to their system will occur on the Ides of March!  The Garcia household is discontinuing satellite t.v.  Hopefully network t.v. can be captured through antennae.  If not, there are plenty of books in the house.  We also subscribe to Netflix and Hulu Plus which will be discontinued for the summer and brought back to life in September (there are no cancellation fees).  This decision, so far, was the hardest for me to make.  I am a t.v. addict.  I asked the spousal unit for the o.k. and he reminded me that it wasn't him that would be going without.  Total cost savings for the year- @$700.   
The next extraneous cost to go?  Probably satellite radio I'm not sure.  I'll share when it gets cut.  (I know it will never be the internet- I really would be a nutcase.)