answer:If you love to run and do it regularly, why not make the purchase of the shoes your gift-to-yourself this year? Can you skimp somewhere else? Pro-rate the $50 extra. It comes to about $1.00/ week. If you neend $104 extra, that’s only $2.00/week. Skip the Starbucks, buy underwear at the $ store, have PB and J for lunch one day and Bob’s your uncle.