[Diesel_Dave]

I personally am so much of a penny pincher that my fingerprints look suspiciously like Abraham Lincoln's head. That being said, my wife's been working on me and I've loosened up a little.

One of my classics was when I started grad school. I didn't have money and for the first 6 months I only got paid $700/mo--and I lived on that! I slept on an old air mattress and used the box as my desk (sitting on the floor). Those 2 items was all the furniture I had. Cooked all my own meals in the one pot I had. Ate it all on the one plate I had...It's something most people would never do. But you know what else most people have never done? Graduate with a PhD, paying their own way--with absolutely no debt. That was a good feeling!