Paying for a desk did the same thing for me a couple years back. I was working from my couch and starting at noon, which sounds great until you realize you're still answering emails at 10pm. Dropping real money made me actually show up, because wasting $250 stings more than wasting time. The weird part is the routine stuck even after I gave up the desk. Now I just can't sleep in past 8 without feeling like I'm behind. If it gets you out of bed and into a groove, that's not a waste, that's a fix you were willing to pay for.

My wife gives me the same look every time I pull out the scale. I got tired of my coffee tasting different every morning so I grabbed a cheap digital one off Amazon for like twelve bucks. Turns out my "heaping scoop" was closer to 24 grams on some beans and my light roast mornings were basically twice as strong as my dark roast ones. No wonder some days I felt like I could see through time and other days I was basically drinking bean water. The scale lives on the counter now and she has stopped asking what it's for.