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> When I started working, I didn’t start spending. I'm exactly the same. I see so many people living paycheck to paycheck, and for me there is nothing more dep
by shawabawa3 13y ago
> When I started working, I didn’t start spending.
I'm exactly the same. I see so many people living paycheck to paycheck, and for me there is nothing more depressing.
I've only been working for around a year and a half and I already have the economic freedom to be unemployed for a year.
Also, I don't really feel like I live frugally. I go out as much as I want to, I go on holidays, I buy a few luxuries that I really want. I really don't understand how people manage to spend so much
- icebraining 13y agoI really don't understand how people manage to spend so much Maybe they just earn less than you?
- dirktheman 13y agoCould be, but I have coworkers that make about the same amount of money as me, yet they're not able to save money. They spend it mostly on clothes, restaurants and bars. Some of them don't even have kids yet they manage to consume their whole paycheck within the month.
- hyphyphyph 13y agoThere's a lot of shit that adds up. Booze is a serious killer. Cigarettes are goddamn expensive. Clothes pile up in cost...
- dagw 13y agoMy first couple of years on a full time job I spent all the money i earned, barely making it from paycheck to paycheck (almost always carrying a few hundred dollars in debt), saving nothing, and it was freaking awesome. No room mate, lived in the middle of town, buy any thing I wanted, go out to any place I wanted. I could afford to fly to the States for a week (or even a long weekend) and stay in a nice hotel on a whim just because someone said, "hey come on over we're having a party". Honestly it was some of the best times of my life, and I'm really glad a I took the chance when I had the chance. Looking back I can only say thank god these sorts of blog posts weren't popular when I was 20 or those years might have been much more dull.