the “worth it” purchase
We don’t have a lot of extra money. Two kids, one income, rising everything.
But last year, after months of guilt and back-and-forth, I bought a used $350 treadmill off Craigslist. Nothing fancy — no screen, no incline, squeaks a little.
It’s in the basement. Cold, unglamorous. But it changed me.
I started walking on it during those awful 5:30am wakeups — before the kids, before work, before the noise. Just 25 minutes of walking, breathing, sometimes crying.
I didn’t lose 30 pounds or suddenly become a new person.
But I started showing up to my own life again.
$350. That’s what it cost me to remember I’m a person, not just a to-do list with a pulse.
“Worth it” doesn’t always mean profitable.
Sometimes it just means — I came back to myself.
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