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Re:The Cost of Avoiding Sensitive Questions by hanniabu on Monday December 16, 2019 @03:23AM (#21801578)
I knew a guy like that and he had a very different attitude than most in this situation. The guy I knew was 100% aware of what he was doing. He said he's not poor at all, but chose to live poor to save his money and invest it instead. He said he was on track to retire at 30. The man had laser vision with his eye on the target, can't hate on him for that. He'll be the last one laughing with that "fuck you" money.
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Re:The Cost of Avoiding Sensitive Questions by majos on Monday December 16, 2019 @09:17AM (#21803115)
But saving money on clothes and hygiene is crazily short-sighted. Bad clean clothes are maybe a couple hundred dollars a year, generously. I sincerely doubt that outweighs having your co-workers dread interacting with you.
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Re:The Cost of Avoiding Sensitive Questions by zajio1am on Monday December 16, 2019 @11:13AM (#21804098)
It mostly saves time for washing clothes.

Changing clothes weekly was societal norm before washing machines became common. With washing machines Jevons paradox takes effect - instead of just accepting more free personal time with less time taken by washing clothes, we ramped up societal expectations for clean clothes.

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Re:The Cost of Avoiding Sensitive Questions by hanniabu on Monday December 16, 2019 @10:29AM (#21803712)
All those little couple hundred dollars a year here and there add up. And some people just don't care to make friends with the people they work with.
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Re:The Cost of Avoiding Sensitive Questions by artsyca on Monday December 16, 2019 @05:52PM (#21808368)
Actually you can have the best of both worlds it's a failure of imagination
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