It’s time for a bit of belt-tightening in the EDRW household.\u00a0 Unfortunately not literally; despite my best intentions a few pounds have crept on to my frame.\u00a0 No, I’m talking about our standard of living.\u00a0 As I’m sure you’re well aware, the economy sucks right now (in fact, I spied it bogarting the port-o-potties at my last race).\u00a0 And tough times calls for drastic measures.<\/p>\n
Although we’re self-employed, my darling and I are in great financial shape.\u00a0 Our only debt is our mortgage, and considering we live in a teensy hovel built in 1906, the monthly payment is more than reasonable.\u00a0 We’ve both suffered through lean times as we’ve built our respective businesses, and that frugality has stayed with us.\u00a0 But given today’s uncertainty, we know we could do better.<\/p>\n
Our race schedule was the first to suffer the chopping block.\u00a0 While we’re still running the Ghost of Seattle Marathon this weekend and the Christmas Marathon on Dec. 21, we’ve decided to forego the 12Ks of Christmas on Dec. 14.\u00a0 It’s a great race (I ran it last year<\/a>), but I figure if we’re not actually racing it, why shell out $35-$40\/person just for another t-shirt?\u00a0 I’ve also nixed the Whidbey Marathon on March 29.\u00a0 I originally thought I’d run it as a training run for Boston (I figured the hills would prepare me for the famed Newton hills), but I’ve decided the $70\/person could be better spent elsewhere.\u00a0 Sure, we could probably coax our friends into letting us stay at their condo by the race start, but we’d still rack up additional expenses in travel and food.<\/p>\n We have a couple of big ticket races already on the agenda for 2009 — the Walt Disney World Goofy Challenge in January and Boston in April — so we may end up staying local for the rest of the year.\u00a0 I’d love to run New York, or at the very least pick up a couple of other states than Washington, but we’ll have to see if our budget allows.<\/p>\n Unfortunately the cuts don’t end with our race schedule.<\/p>\n Long-time readers know of my problem<\/a>; I just gots to have me some cute clothes!\u00a0 This year I’ve been particularly indulgent: 4 short-sleeved shirts, five pairs of shorts, two pairs of capris, two running skirts, a rain jacket and a hat.\u00a0 I swear — I spend more on workout gear than I do on regular clothes.<\/p>\n All good things must come to an end; so too must my rampant spending.\u00a0 So for the next 14 months (until Jan. 1, 2010), I am to buy NO MORE WORKOUT CLOTHES other than bare necessities such as shoes and socks (and perhaps something to commemorate the Goofy Challenge, but only ONE thing.\u00a0 Oh, and there’s NO WAY I’m leaving Beantown without an Image Impact jacket<\/a>.\u00a0 And maybe a hat.\u00a0 But that’s all; I SWEAR!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s time for a bit of belt-tightening in the EDRW household.\u00a0 Unfortunately not literally; despite my best intentions a few pounds have crept on to my frame.\u00a0 No, I’m talking about our standard of living.\u00a0 As I’m sure you’re well aware, the economy sucks right now (in fact, I spied it bogarting the port-o-potties at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[63,65,64],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness-musings","tag-clotheshorse","tag-economy","tag-spendthrift"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatdrinkrunwoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}