It’s not just about avoiding spending money on motels and microwaves and plane tickets.

It’s that I don’t want to spend money at all.

Sure, that’s an idealized goal and not a practical viable target that can realistically ever be hit, in Civ World.

But letting it abide within the theoretical and aspirational … isn’t bad or wrong or inconsistent.

I’m going to have to get cream from the store because the alternative is owning and caring for livestock. (Or, of course, just living without cream–which is not unthinkable … )

Similarly, for the coffee the cream goes into.

I’m working out the details as I go.

Going-without is an ideal strategy, when it comes to the nicotine drug.

And one other shardlet: To the extent that I do spend, as much as possible, it should be on things that eliminate future expenses.

Think of the solar panels, think of the drilled well.

A battery-box/air compressor and a few tools I already own will make it less likely that I’ll ever need AAA.

Like that.