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Re:Do You Know Who Owns Your Debt? by smabie on Sunday November 17, 2019 @04:28PM (#21560148)
Fair enough. But let me tell you a story: one of childhood friends was very well off and had a bunch of MTG cards. His decks were always very good (for a 11 year old). One time a new kid at the school came over to his house with us. The kid said: can I have some magic cards, you have so many? And my friend said: I didn’t get so many by giving them away.

Anyways, maybe not that profound, but the memory has stuck. By sweating the cents, you get the dollars. And there’s another saying that is different from yours that I heard my dad say constantly: every penny counts.

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Re:Do You Know Who Owns Your Debt? by war1025 on Sunday November 17, 2019 @09:41PM (#21561505)
Every dollar does count, but being reckless with dollar bills is going to get you in a lot less trouble than being reckless with twenties.

For what it's worth, we have a family of five, my wife stays home, and I believe we currently save somewhere in the ballpark of 35% of our income. I think that counts as being pretty frugal compared to most of the people I know.

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