Sounds like me. I budget $10.00 a week for “lunch” money. I usually take my lunch (grocery money is separate form the $10) but it’s always tempting to pop over to the deli next door sometimes or give in to that 3:00Pm craving for chocolate. Since I’ve started to put what is left from that $10.00 every week into my “new toy” fund ( long before Whoa set in)I’m not only able to buy a new whistle (Hoover traditional brass high D by the way is on order) I think I may actually be becoming healthier.
Addictions are hard to overcome. I am a card carrying member of LBA, lens buyers anonymous, for my camera but was able to overcome that just in time to start wanting to play the recorder seriously. That means good ones in the major keys in wood with “good” plastic ones to match for extended practices. Now that I have all the recorders I intend to buy for at least another year (except for the two I’m bidding on right now-go Ebay)I’ve been fighting Whoa.
Just tell the family that you are saving money by buying and playing whistles instead of taking up golf which would be really expensive. It worked for me, I just remind my husband how expensive the horses were that I gave up just because we had two kids in college at the same time. 
I’m a proud member of horse-aholics un-anonymous myself. Don’t even get me started. I got pretty depressed last year when I didn’t have anywhere to ride while at school. 
As for money, I have to save all the quarters I can for laundry 
, and anything larger than that usually gets spent at Taco Bell or Whataburger, aka the only places still open at 3:00 in the morning when we finish our group projects.
Thats not fair, the Taco Bell here is only open till 1 or something, but up here in Jersey we got Diners which are sometimes 24/7 or open till the wee hours.
The Hoover should be good for you I had one once and didn’t really like it but from what you say you probably will.
There are quiet whistles and there are not quiet whistles, but any whistle is capable of escaping through or around or under that cheap-ass dorm room door, bounding down the hall, and irritating the one person most likely to complain.
When I want to practice quietly, I turn it sideways and blow across the window as with a fife. You get enough sound that you can practice the fingering and learn the tune, but not so much that anyone more than a few feet away can hear you. I’ve practiced in airports all over the country without getting a complaint.
Well, with only one complaint, but I was trying for that one. I was sitting on the airplane right next to a bidnessman who was talking continuously and loudly on his cell phone. So I got a whistle out and began playing it sideways, but blowing a little more than usual so as to intentionally be heard. “Do you mind” he said. “That’s really irritating.”
“So’s your braying into that cell phone, but you don’t hear me bitching about it.”
So if quiet in the dorm is your concern, you can try the sideblown method, secure in the knowledge that you can make enough noise to be irritating if you’ve a mind to.
Yeah, I’ve got a plan for the door. It’s pretty thick, and I can close that gap at the bottom with a rolled-up towel. I’ll try the side-whistling method too. I live in a corner room, so we only have one neighbor that we share a wall with, and I don’t think she’s home much…
I could also probably go outside, sit under a tree, and get back at the corps of cadets for all those mornings that they go running at 5:30 am, intentionally shouting at the top of their lungs so as to wake-up/annoy those of us “non-regs” that share their cluster of dorm buildings.
try the hoover narrow bore brass its quiet and has a beautiful tone and is still pretty cheap i got mine just for something quiet but it became my favorite whistle the second octave is incredibly easy to play on it