Nah. One of my coworkers stays home for every vacation and reads. We try to guess how many books she'll read during her week off each time. Closest guess, without going over, wins. She loves it and crowns a winner each time she returns, but the winner only gets bragging rights until her next vacation.

A few years ago I was at a gas station pumping fuel on a trip, while prices were extremely high, and I was thinking to myself that her way is certainly much less expensive.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's me! But I'm a really slow reader, and have many other interests, so that number would be between 0-1 every time lol.

[•••] and I was thinking to myself that her way is certainly much less expensive

Maybe so, but if you like going elsewhere then maybe it's worth it for you. The main reason I don't travel is because it sounds like the opposite of fun to me, personally.

But I spend plenty on my introvert shit. Like just recently spent almost 100 EUR on these fancy recycled notebooks for my partner and I, because I spend so much of my time writing workbooks, navel gazing diary entries, filling out bespoke agendas rofl; all that stuff.

But that's me and my happy place.

[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

Oh, yeah, I enjoy the traveling. My thought was just that as I was watching the pump total price go higher and higher. But I still travel for vacations. :)