We all do things to make our winters more enjoyable and to extend the shred as much as possible. but we all know that snowboarding as a hella expensive hobby. If you’ve got your heart set on more expensive vacations to more expensive resorts and more expensive gear and more days on the mountain every winter, you’ve got two options:

Option 1 is to get a better job and make more money. But the rat race to earn more money rarely works out too well (this is an absolute must read!), because although you might have fancier gear, to earn more money you usually need to work more, which means you play less. Every office building and cubicle farm in America is full of people who let that get away from them: they’re working so much they don’t have time to play.

Option 2, if I may paraphrase some Project Mayhem, is to prioritize your life; spend less money on shit you don’t need!

I am not my job. I am not how much money I have in the bank. I am not the car I drive. I am not the contents of my wallet. I am not my fucking khakis.

This is a wholesale lifestyle change for most people and it’s not easy, but the payoff is in the long-run. You don’t need to get rid of your car or downsize your house. Start small. Stop spending $4/day on Starbucks. That would save you more than $1,000 per year, or more than enough for most season passes or a whole new setup.

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I ditched the whole “new car” smell in favor of a 10 year old Jeep Cherokee with a 100,000 miles on it. There were other motives behind this but one of the added benefits is that no car payments + reduced insurance bills = more snowboarding!

And fewer keys.

Evaluate your priorities. How high on that list are your hobbies? I don’t care if it’s snowboarding or Sudoku. The things you like to do, which really bring you happiness, should be higher on that list than your next pair of J Crew chinos.

And if they’re not, I shouldn’t even be talking to you.

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