Friday, October 30, 2009

The best of cheapness

This is not by any means a sustainable answer to how not to spend any money, ever, but it's certainly the best: don't leave the house. Stay home with a 400-plus page autobiographical novel about a French professor's irrepressible love of pretty young things (and yes, this is my homework), and you will find yourself going the frozen-toast, instant-oatmeal route in no time.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Instant oatmeal, yitch. Quaker old-fashioned, put the milk in the night before and put it in the fridge, let it hydrate, microwave it in the morning, much better. No more costly. dave.s.

Phoebe Maltz Bovy said...

I've experimented but have found life goes most smoothly if breakfast can be prepared with as little forethought as possible, and that the difference between 'real' oatmeal and processed is not great enough to make up for the convenience factor.