God I'm cheap.

Being frugal or being cheap or whatever you want to call it has it's plus sides, but also it's downsides.

Sarah's dad would go to the local u-pull-it and spend hours looking for used parts, spend the time to pull it. Make a day of it. Then, when the used part failed, he'd do it all over again.

I'd buy the part new, get it delivered, and put it on. Done. He used to ask me why I'd spend the $70 dollars for a new brake booster with a lifetime warranty when he only paid $20 for the same booster with a 30 day warranty.

Wow, could it be because by spending the extra money for a new one I wasn't scouring the junkyard for hours looking for one that I trust? And that was more time I had with Sarah?

Might not have seemed like a big deal five years ago, but it's a big deal now.

I can go to work and make more money. It's a never ending cycle to begin with: I earn the money to pay my bills so that the people who work at the utility companies, etc, can earn the money to pay their bills, and on and on and on.

Time I can't get back. There's never a way to earn more, never a way to replace it, never a way to get it back once it's gone.

Spend your money wisely.

Spend your time preciously.