me. i thought about that things that bring me true joy and decided that i would have to spend carefully on only those things if i wanted to be able to enjoy them. i decided to keep up my quilting class, which i love, and also my exercise group. these things were important to me and have a fixed cost so if i wanted to continue i had to keep paying.
2. find inexpensive ways to enjoy the things important to you: aside from the quilt class and my exercise group i could find ways to cut costs on everything else that was important to me. i like to go out 