> What you have described is living your life where you satisfaction comes only from purchasing comfort. I think there's a difference between having absolute c

> What you have described is living your life where you satisfaction comes only from purchasing comfort. I think there's a difference between having absolute comfort, and not turning up the heater in winter time, enduring cold inside your own house. Besides, it's not like he lives alone, his wife lives with him, and she has to endure that whether she likes it or not (they're old and there's no way for her to leave him, so let's not go there). So, being a stoic is ok if that's what you like. But dragging others with you by force I think is not ok, and if you apply stoicism on things like not warming up your house, or not buying good food when you invite your family to gather in your house once a year having all the resources to be a good host, is not stoicism. It's being cheap for the sake of being cheap. Also, my wife told me he's been like that his entire life. It's not like he turned cheap in his old age. On my part, I'm not going to have dinner for Christmas at his house ever again.