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Mariah's husband has the same theory that my husband finally convinced me of: If you don't spend on what is really, really important to you, it'll be too hard to avoid buying all the useless stuff you don't even care about. Nobody can be perfect all the time, and it's much easier to be "good" about saving money when you have things you honestly love.
After losing everything in Hurricane Katrina, Mariah, her husband and three kids have had to really be frugal. She writes:
He’s just not prepared to give up the things he loves. And why should he be? Life is not a rehearsal. This is it. What I suggested was to quit living cold turkey, start a savings account, and live in a shoe for the next 10 years while we build a nest egg. It sounded great on paper (not really), but it wasn’t going to happen without an extreme meltdown and a few slit throats.
