Originally Posted by
I-Like-To-Bike
Have you told her that her running around is "frivolous"? If it is you doing the frivolous running around why don't you quit? Or maybe it is not that frivolous after all.
I should have been clearer- the wife has that commute, but the weekend mileage is largely family related. And the frivolity can come in a myriad ways- from dining out to looking at McMansions we have no hope of ever buying to driving 45 miles to check out an over-sized pond billed as a lake in another town because she heard about the fishing there and did nothing more than drive around said body of water...