The 7 Habits Of Highly Frugal People

[RDS]

Excellent advise on how to be frugal. To put it in a nutshell - disciplene yourself. set goals and get your priorities right.

The book 7 Habits of Highly Effective People has sold over 15 million copies since it was first published in 1989, teaching people all over the world how to live happier, more successful, and more satisfying lives.

One of the prevailing themes of the book is that to change your life, you need to change your attitude.

No one else is responsible for what happens to you but you, so you can either complain about the things you don’t like in your life or you can set about changing them


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[Fisher]

I wish the old-timers were not dying off so fast. I could listen to stories of how people got by during and after the depression all day long. It amazes me at how self-reliant the poor used to be as opposed to today.

 

[MaggieD]

I wish the old-timers were not dying off so fast. I could listen to stories of how people got by during and after the depression all day long. It amazes me at how self-reliant the poor used to be as opposed to today.

It's much easier to "live frugally" when those around you are doing the same. That was certainly true during the Depression. No one felt deprived because most everyone was in the same boat.

My mom's 84-year-old friend freezes milk. That just about did it for me, actually. He refuses to buy small containers of milk; the large one spoils before they can use it. So he buys it by the gallon (on sale, ALWAYS, by the way) and separates it into different containers for the freezer. Claims it tastes the same.

He's over the edge. Drives a 15-year-old POS car that he bought used three years ago for $3,000. Shops at five different grocery stores. Just this last summer, I made him have his A/C fixed or said mom couldn't ride in his car. His driver's side window doesn't roll down. Hasn't changed the oil since he got the car. Only buys stuff on sale. Is the cheapest SOB on planet earth. And he's worth over a million dollars. Guess we know how he got there.

And yet. He gambles twice a week at the boat, playing craps for big money. Go figure.

 

[Fisher]

It's much easier to "live frugally" when those around you are doing the same. That was certainly true during the Depression. No one felt deprived because most everyone was in the same boat.

My mom's 84-year-old friend freezes milk. That just about did it for me, actually. He refuses to buy small containers of milk; the large one spoils before they can use it. So he buys it by the gallon (on sale, ALWAYS, by the way) and separates it into different containers for the freezer. Claims it tastes the same.

He's over the edge. Drives a 15-year-old POS car that he bought used three years ago for $3,000. Shops at five different grocery stores. Just this last summer, I made him have his A/C fixed or said mom couldn't ride in his car. His driver's side window doesn't roll down. Hasn't changed the oil since he got the car. Only buys stuff on sale. Is the cheapest SOB on planet earth. And he's worth over a million dollars. Guess we know how he got there.

And yet. He gambles twice a week at the boat, playing craps for big money. Go figure.

Frozen milk thawed does NOT taste the same----ugh.

I just think it is neat how people used to do things like can sausage in jars and save lint/old clothes to make quilts and stuff.

 

[nota bene]

What I absorbed from my grandparents was that it was a sin to waste. They mended and fixed, and when they didn't have money, they made do.

Of course, they also valued in a way that none of us ever can the incredible luxury of indoor toilets and the advent of the automobile that got them off the farms.

 

[Rocketman]

It's much easier to "live frugally" when those around you are doing the same. That was certainly true during the Depression. No one felt deprived because most everyone was in the same boat.

My mom's 84-year-old friend freezes milk. That just about did it for me, actually. He refuses to buy small containers of milk; the large one spoils before they can use it. So he buys it by the gallon (on sale, ALWAYS, by the way) and separates it into different containers for the freezer. Claims it tastes the same.

He's over the edge. Drives a 15-year-old POS car that he bought used three years ago for $3,000. Shops at five different grocery stores. Just this last summer, I made him have his A/C fixed or said mom couldn't ride in his car. His driver's side window doesn't roll down. Hasn't changed the oil since he got the car. Only buys stuff on sale. Is the cheapest SOB on planet earth. And he's worth over a million dollars. Guess we know how he got there.

And yet. He gambles twice a week at the boat, playing craps for big money. Go figure.

I think there was something called pride back then, people felt better about themselves making it on their own, today people feel better knowing they got a free ride.

 

[MaggieD]

I think there was something called pride back then, people felt better about themselves making it on their own, today people feel better knowing they got a free ride.

At first I thought...."feel better?" Then, on second thought, Tom has regular riders who get disability, get a few hundred a month in food stamps, get Section 8 housing. And yes, they do "brag" about it.