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Surprisingly Marxist

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Spend consciously and consider your life energy used to make that purchase. Frugality is just finding good value in simplicity.

Align your spending with your values and purpose. Consider if this cost is worth all of the hours and energy it took to afford it.

Don’t trade your life for money.

Time is your most valuable resource. You can choose to spend your time living and experiencing life on this beautiful planet with loved ones or working for a dollar which holds limited value.

Frugality is enjoying the virtue of getting good value for every minute of your life energy and from everything you have the use of.

Waste lies not in the number of possessions but in the failure to enjoy them.

So freaking preachy. But I love the way the book feels 😂 I have put this down. To read I will teach you to be rich. I pulled maybe one good bit of info from this book so far. I will finish it eventually in case there are any other good tidbits. Honestly this book gives me imagery of an old lady in a silk Mumu with blue order hair waving incense everywhere and giving you mostly out of touch advice.

why is this taking me so long to read

Thought this was more philosophical but it’s actually very action-oriented so taking me forever :’)

actually a cute finance book

Mỗi thứ bạn mua đều đánh đổi bằng năng lượng sống của mình. Mỗi món đồ bạn mua mà không dùng là lãng phí năng lượng sống, lãng phí tài nguyên của trái đất.

Tác giả cung cấp nhiều tip để tiết kiệm tiền: tự sửa chữa đồ đạc, biết trước sắp tới nhà hết đồ gì thì mua vào các dịp giảm giá, chặn hoặc chuyển các email quảng cáo sang thư mục khác, mua xe hơi đời hiện tại khi hãng sắp ra đời xe mới, tham khảo hàng thanh lý nhưng chất lượng còn tốt...

Dường như sách dành cho những ai đang không quản lý được những khoản nợ của mình. Các công thức tính toán giúp những ai nghiện mua sắm hay chi tiêu quá đà có thể dừng lại và kiểm kê mình đã dùng tiền vào việc gì, nó có phù hợp với mục đích sống của mình không. Bản thân mình không nghiện mua sắm nên k hấp dẫn lắm.

Tác giả nói về cách chúng ta đang sống và tiêu thụ chân thực trần trụi và sống động như thể nói về chính bản thân người đọc. Cách đề cập đến tác hại của thói quen tiêu dùng đến môi trường sống là một gói tín dụng đến từ thế hệ tương lai rất truyền cảm hứng. Lối viết sắc sảo thú vị.

Khá thú vị, đánh trúng tâm lý của người đọc, nói lên chính xác thực trạng của xã hội tiêu dùng.

I read this book what feels like a million years ago when I was 19, and am so excited to read it again to see what my take on it is at this point in my life in my mid-40s

Time to be a financial literate girly!

Horribly outdated and repetitive. Will not be finishing it.

"People don’t need enormous cars, they need respect. They don’t need closets full of clothes, they need to feel attractive and they need excitement and variety and beauty. People don’t need electronic equipment; they need something worthwhile to do with their lives. People need identity, community, challenge, acknowledgement, love, and joy."

A brilliant read so far, with an encouraging outlook on FI and the balance of your life and work to reach those goals sooner.

The perfect work life would offer enough challenge to be interesting. Enough ease to be enjoyable. Enough camaraderie to be nourishing. Enough solitude to be productive. Enough hours at work to get the job done. Enough leisure to feel refreshed. Enough contribution to feel needed. Enough silliness to have fun. And enough money to pay the bills . . . and then some. Even the best jobs have trade-offs.

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“No shame, no blame” you’re confronting the truth of your spending habits, you can’t blame yourself for past purchases if you weren’t aware that you had poor spending habits.

It talked about breaking “food” down into different categories and suggested groceries be broken into “just me” and “serving others”… needless to say, I need to adopt that into my budgeting.

"Any activity that is either publicly or privately funded is subject to someone else's whims and priorities. Any product or service that depends on a fickle consuming public might not survive in a competitive marketplace."

“Some people would say that once we’re above the survival level, the difference between prosperity and poverty lies simply in our degree of gratitude.”

3 Sirens of Consumerism
1. Comfort
2. Control
3. Convenience

If you live for having it all, what you have is never enough.

Change seeks different solutions to intractable problems. Transformation asks different questions so that we can see the problems in a new light.

I think their career advice is suited for people without disabilities probably driven extroverted people who are externally motivated. I don’t know as an INFJ I can be only motivated by money. So I think the reality is more complex than what they say. The rest is good but I am more complex than that.

I have also realized that I can have a purpose for my life apart from work and making money. I can admit it’s a little soul sucking to be working really hard and be told you are mostly meeting expectations… I can be free to work with integrity on volunteer projects. This is a big step to admit that I want to work on being free.

Good I got a good tip on making cheap gifts for my family instead of giving expensive gifts or
Money… books and cookies. I estimate this will save $100