![]() Life tax! Doesn't mean I'm not careful about parking, water use, etc. Life tax! Same for my car getting towed periodically in NYC. I wrote the check with minimal blood pressure raising (and simply reduced my expenses for the next few months). ![]() I left a hose running for a month last year, and had to pay a $1000 water bill. But it forgives (and recognizes as inevitable) errant occurrences, so they don't weigh me down. Answer (1 of 6): Eat the roast and enjoy it. One advantage of this perspective is that it doesn't easily scale, if I have an impulse (subconscious or otherwise) to relax my standards and tolerance and become increasingly wasteful/sloppy. I build it into my expectations, the way even very diligent retail stores expect some shoplifting. A certain amount of wastage happens, and can be tolerated (though it feels awful at the time). Whenever I throw away food, or money, or otherwise do some shameful/wasteful gaffe, I conceive of it as life tax.
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