I've given up books for what I want and that's the "best" I can do. I use to read 3-5 books a week and my Amazon slogan is "single-handedly keeping Amazon in business" :-) I generally buy $100-$500 worth of books a month. But when I wasn't working I've "traded" my husband my book buying for several months for new computers or other things that were more expensive than usual and didn't fit in our general scheme of things :-) But I literally went out and got a full time job after 10+ years without in order to pay for my T out-of-pocket. Seven years later a couple months after terminating, I quit the job and "retired" LOL.