First off, let me just point out that eggs are 0.99/dozen at 99 cent store this week…..yes, they are the same eggs delivered to all the other stores, though not organic, cage-free, grass-fed, or hand polished……

Waste is horrible. We waste everything. Air, water, food, MONEY, love, friendship, health….you name it, we can waste it. Have we developed a country of B-movie coke dealers who light cigars with $100 bills because we “can”? Well…..kind of……

Our parents or grandparents grew up through a massive economic depression, my father (who made and blew through a ton of money in his life, loved to eat some sad corn kernels in lukewarm watered-down milk till the day he died, it felt like home.) They then went off to war. They also had wash-day, block parties, sewing circles, barn-raisings, cub scouts, community spirit, parades, naivety (sometimes not such a bad thing) and helped each other as much as they were able to. Some lived through even worse things than the Depression, and made a loaf of bread or a potato last for a week……Tom Brokaw called them “the greatest generation”…….and I doubt that he was wrong.

Sarah Jessica have spoken quite a bit about this. Just because I have money (which I do), does not make me feel good about wasting things. If Nathen wants some chocolate milk, I pour him a little glass. He invariably takes one tiny sip and he’s done. Well you can be quite sure that he will be looking at that same glass of milk the next meal and the one after that until it is gone. We don’t waste here. He gets a toy, he gives one away that he doesn’t use anymore. That’s the rule. He can talk about it in therapy later. Which I can afford, he will be able to afford, and his children will be able to afford. 

If you are hurting financially, look at your trash. Look at what you are wasting. It will tell you more than I could begin to describe. Look at what you left on your plate at a restaurant because you ordered too much. Take it home, or wrap it up and give it to someone on the street, there are plenty.

And if you are a rapper with your first and probably last single that’s just “dropped” (that’s right, I know my audience), don’t blow your money on Hennessey…Hennessey sucks. Buy a better cognac. If you want to go to Las Vegas and be “treated like a VIP” when you are NOT a VIP, then take a look at that. Who the hell wants to be treated like a “high roller” when you have to go home and not be able to pay your (probably) overly expensive mortgage. You wanna feel like a king? Take your kid to a 99 cent store and give him a $10 bill to spend. Talk about a kid in a candy shop, it’s awesome.

What Sarah Jessica and I speak about is that waste is what got us here in the first place, useless waste. We know Sarah can pay her bills, and we know that I can pay my bills. If you are fortunate enough to be able to pay all of your bills then do this——every time you want to waste money, waste HALF of it instead, you earned it, go blow some ( I spend 10% of every job on something for ME, that’s what my agent gets, I feel like I should get the same)…….but after that, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, I am BEGGING you, take the money you were going to waste and put it in an envelope to AMFAR, Doctors Without Borders, Habitat for Humanity, or The Alliance for Children’s Rights here in Los Angeles….and see how THAT makes you feel……”Superman never made any money, saving the world from Solomon Grundy”——yes, I just quoted the Crash Test Dummies…….

And if you are reading this, please do me a favor….tell 5 people about it. I am an advocate for people living sensibly and avoiding what we have all seen happen to so many as of late. WE, collectively, have been OUT OF CONTROL…..let’s just see if we can do better. I think we can….

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WG