I’m not saving ninety percent of my income for myself

Re:I’m not saving ninety percent of my income for myself by username90 on Saturday June 08, 2019 @06:50PM (#20135734)

I buy everything I want to buy and still save around 85% of what I earn. I don't obsess with discounts or so, I buy things when I want them. I can happily live like the poorest few percent while earning like the top few percent so it doesn't make me miserable.

In my opinion spending money is usually more work than it is worth, even without considering the time it takes to earn said money. Like, you have to go to the store, keep track of another item in your home which you basically never use, throw it away etc. Or go to a restaurant, order things, wait for 30 minutes just to eat and then wait to pay and so on. Or going on trips to exotic places, which mostly entails wasting a day sitting on a plane just to visit a country with barely functioning infrastructure.

So to me it looks like people work hard to spend their money for no reason at all and that is what keeps them miserable.

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Re:I’m not saving ninety percent of my income for myself by rhacker on Sunday June 09, 2019 @12:36PM (#20140190)

Not to mention that even with your favorite restaurant and favorite meal at said restaurant do other people find that 20% of the time the chicken is cold or undercooked or the sauce was wrong or mis-applied. Opting in to spending money generally makes one double mad because of how little comes back.

Why pay $10 for a salad when $20 can pay for a week of salads customized exactly the way you want. (and organic)

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