Sugar gives me headaches anyways...

Consumption of material things measures fairly low on the happiness scale - especially if done in isolation, without friends or family.For this reason, it makes sense to sacrifice needless consumption (call it frugality if you must) in order to create a passive income stream as quickly as possible, which should have the primary purpose of freeing up our time in order to devote more of it to the primary pursuit of good, healthy, relationships - and freeing up our minds so that we can be emotionally "present" when around those we love.

The population at large in the U.S. is a consumption economy.

As a kid her and her siblings were diagnosed with ADHD (she said they are fed high doses of sugar and crap to get them to spaz out during the observation period) and the parents collected their "disability" checks until they turned 18.

How could you complain about sugar white sand beaches!

Oh never mind all the responsibilities and all the money I don't have...Lot of theory but very little actual practical in these podcasts.I know this was blunt.. but I don't do sugar coating. 

no one will tell you they are bad before they screw you , no bad person has a name on his face saying i m screwing you . all the bla bla can be sugar coated.

All sarcasm aside, my wife and I grew up poor, live very modestly and strongly dislike over-consumption of consumerism.

With much of the Phoenix, AZ area being historically agricultural the claim could be made that the water consumption is not increasing nearly at the level some fear due to all of the agricultural ground being converted to rooftops. 

I have extensive experience with 37 Signals' Highrise (cheap, fast to implement, fast learning curve) but have also looked at Salesforce and heard good things about open source programs like Sugar. 4 - The necessity of working together in the same office vs virtual operations.