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JimDepotJimDepot Posts: 957 ✭✭
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I quit smoking last Thursday. I figure that I save $5 a day and 5 days later I had saved $25. Today, Wednesday, I bought a $5 Canadian Maple Leaf with the saved cash, my new pocket piece. A liitle less than 2 ounces of silver a week if I stop smoking. image


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I stopped smoking.
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    WeissWeiss Posts: 9,935 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nice way to really bring home the immediate financial costs. Keep it up!
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    meluaufeetmeluaufeet Posts: 751 ✭✭✭
    Congrats are in order!!!

    btw: A pack of cigs are $8+ here and a 40 cent per pack tax increase is starting tommorrow (along with a 3 cent per gallon gas tax increase)...
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    keepdachangekeepdachange Posts: 1,374
    The saving of your life will far outweigh the $25 a week! Keep it up. I lost all 4 grandparents (all smokers) to lung cancer and none of them lived past 65
    "If you hit a midget on the head with a stick, he turns into 40 gold coins." - Patty Oswalt
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    MesquiteMesquite Posts: 4,075 ✭✭✭
    Way to go! Keep your mind on the goal and you will see that quitting is a good thing!
    There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.
    –John Adams, 1826
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    SwampboySwampboy Posts: 12,885 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Keep it going Jim!

    (Don't keep that piece in the pocket with your keys)
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    DrBusterDrBuster Posts: 5,306 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Kudos on quitting Jim! Stick to it - it's easier after the first week.

    I did the same many months ago. Actually wifey gave me some 6 month presents last night.

    I do have a cigar with my coctails/beers, but 2+ packs a day (3+ on a good weekend day/night) are gone. I've been buying the bullion too, although entirely too many fixits to the truck have hampered my weekly plans for a good bit, but that's ok.
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    guitarwesguitarwes Posts: 9,240 ✭✭✭

    congrats, keep it up, you won't regret it one second. Being in the medical field, I see first hand the suffering horrors of long-term (and some short-term) smokers.

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    fivecentsfivecents Posts: 11,207 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Keep it up Jim.
    Your health benefits will far out weigh your silver stash!image
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    mkman123mkman123 Posts: 6,849 ✭✭✭✭
    good incentive to quit is to reward yourself which you are doing ;image
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    johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 27,505 ✭✭✭✭✭
    congratulations and wtg on the pick up. i quit 13 months ago and am glad of it. keep at it image
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    JimDepotJimDepot Posts: 957 ✭✭
    Still smoke free. I went to a flea market today in hopes of getting some silver with my saved cash, no luck.

    Thanks for all of the support, it really helps.

    I will post some pics of my next purchase, saved $30 and a Maple so far.
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    PreTurbPreTurb Posts: 1,184 ✭✭✭
    That is FANTASTIC!

    In the last year, I've watched my mother in law and father in law die at 58 and 64 of smoking-caused ailments.

    If there is one thing I encourage young people to do, it's to never smoke.

    My hat is off to you.
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    JimDepotJimDepot Posts: 957 ✭✭
    Yes Gil, a pocketpiece. image

    Maybe I will give it away if I can remain smoke free for 1 year.

    4 ounces so far.


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    TrustNo1TrustNo1 Posts: 1,359 ✭
    I quit 5 years ago, and I dont see that extra $; You end up spending it on stuff image great to quit though, not as hard as you think to make it a year!!
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    cohodkcohodk Posts: 18,621 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Congrats Jim!!!

    New York just raised taxes so that a pack costs nearly $10. Best tax ever!!

    Keep stacking that silver!!
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