1. Organic Food. For sure. I am a localvore, more or less, relying on foods caught, raised and grown within my state. The Food Labeling Act of 2006 has led me to distrust food labels on supermarket shelves -- it was lobbied for by at least seven out of nine food processing companies California Attorney General Bill Lockyer tried to sue two months before Rep. Michael Rogers of Michigan drafted the bill. Nobody in my family has an advanced degree in chemistry to help us ascertain how many additives or preservatives can be safely ingested or for how long to prevent cancer, and seeing as food is one of the few variables I can control for preventing cancer...

2. Lunches out.

3. Dinners out.

4. Hair. I was floored to read that most families spend under $60 for personal care a month. With careful budgeting, I can manage under $100. I believed that what I paid was the going rate for haircuts and hair colour because that's what the salons I went to were charging.

5. Internet and Cell phone stuff. I don't know how people develop tolerance for cell phone spam via texting or autodialing -- I can't fathom wilfully paying for such garbage. I look forward to the cessation of our contract.