New Old Job

Well I've decided to take the job with my old company. I weighed the 2 offers, comparing salary, benefits, workplace etc, they were roughly the same. The key ingredient was the old company allowed me to work from home. You don't know how nice this can be. Prior to the outsourcing problem in May, I had worked for 3 + years of the seven out of my home office. I got to see my daughter grow up for the first 3 years of her life, her first steps, her first words and her first projectile vomit. You can't experience those things while you're sitting in a cubicle in some non-descript office building with no windows. It also allows for a great deal of flexibility with my schedule. It gives me time to do the things I'd ordinarily have to ask permission from a supervisor if I was in an office. As long as my work gets finished in the time alloted, the boss is cool. Start at 7am, work til noon, start again at 2pm work til 6. It also makes accruing sick days much easier, because it's much easier for me to get up when I'm feeling ill if all I have to do is walk downstairs in my flannels, fire up the PC, logon, check emails and work. No driving thru traffic, finding parking and all that goes with a typical commute. In the past I tried to quantify the dollars I was saving by working from my home, I put the figure at between 4 to 6k in savings per year. I only needed 1 car, no extra insurance, no extra car maintenance, no gasoline for the commute, no need to buy fancy clothes to sit in the office, no lunches at a restaurant. I know I could brown bag it but see the part above regarding walking downstairs to start work, I have a degree in Economics and one of the first things they teach you is about Opportunity Costs.