Can a doorknob make a point?

Well it is almost 2 months now and so far we have been able to not buy anything new with little difficultly. We made cards and wrote notes for Valentines Day and went out to eat. Actually for me it was nice not to have to worry about what I was going to buy for a gift!

I did buy my first “new” thing, a door knob. The knob on our door to the garage broke so Lori and I debated if we should buy a new one. After thinking about it for a while I decided to buy a new one. I decided that a “used” door knob, if we could find one, probably meant it didn’t work wherever it came from. The fact that is was 10 below zero and our door would not stay shut helped with making this purchase seem OK!!

The important thing for me is really not whether we should have bought a new $15 doorknob. The point is that we had to think about it first. Before we started The Compact we rarely thought about purchases other than the price. We never paused to think about “do we really need this”. That is what The Compact is doing for me, it is making me really think about the difference between “needs” and “wants”.

-Bob