I feel like I've saved enough money going vegetarian to afford the good cheese and avocados. (I'll never quit dairy. That's a quality of life thing for me.)

if you leave a cow to cow it will cow for 20 years

dairy industry cows only live for four

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dairy_cattle

>> Save at least 1000 bucks in case something big like your laptop breaks.

Perhaps buy a $400 used laptop instead

Really depends on what you need of course. My laptops always died of hardware failure/milage (while the desktops kept working) after 4-5 years and on the 2nd or 3rd battery (daily commute with a laptop does lower the life-time considerably I think).

>google for 3 hours to find the cheapest thing

I can always make more money.

I can't make more time.

in reply to "doingmything" (comment is flagged dead but I want to answer non the less)

>> Not sure I'd want to continue living after making all these adjustments. What's the point?

This is some minimum to live without much worries, everything above can go towards security, culture, good food and entertainment. What remains near to free: creating, learning, loving, socialising and helping others. Even the free things need time though, so one might also take exchange having less income for more time to do nice things.