Living with Less

I've been toying with the idea of starting a separate blog lately. That doesn't sound like a good idea coming from someone who has now blogged a total of once for each the last two years. But here's the concept. Somewhat related to my last post, I've been thinking of how I can reduce the amount which I consume. This would be on many levels. Food, gas, media, everything. The idea would be to make the blog an ongoing account of how the experiment is going as I scale back on what I consume. I know that it has to be a process of scaling back, I don't have the capacity to just cut things out cold turkey.
It's like today at work. Whenever it's someone's birthday, that person usually brings a couple of dozen donuts from Tim Horton's to share with everyone. So there they were... free donuts. What could be better? Well, I don't particulary like Tim Horton's donuts, they make me feel a little ill. And neither do I need all of the fat/sugar/etc. that comes with eating those donuts. But, despite all of my mental wranglings, two of them ended up in my tummy. Oh the shame :(
So, my point is that I would like to get to the point where free donuts stare at me with their beady little sprinkle eyes and I don't even flinch. Why? Because I've become accustomed to not needing to consume things. Get it? Hopefully that all makes sense. Stay tuned and we'll see if I actually follow through with this idea.