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Much Needed Rain
Jun. 13th, 2019 06:02 am Woke up a little early this morning when a power blip rebooted several things, including the printer. It's near my bedroom door, and it complains loudly when it loses power - whirring, clacking, beeping, and a nice bright blue light. So I got up a little earlier than normal and I'm now drinking my coffee and watching and listening to storms rolling through. They're moving in from the west, which is a bit unusual for us - we normally get weather coming east off the ocean. I like a good thunderstorm though, so long as we don't get hit by lightning again. LOL.
Extreme Frugality Allowed Me To Retire at 32 and Regain Control of My Life - Not everyone necessarily wants to either retire at 32 or practice the extreme frugality that's described here, but I'm sharing the link because of some interesting points related to my "no buy" rules and 2019 Minimalism. And that's how your attitude towards stuff changes. I found myself very quickly moving away from wanting things. Sometimes even if I have convinced myself we "need" something I still feel deeply indifferent to buying it. It's taken the emotion out of the equation, is I think what I'm trying to say. I can see something and think, ooh I want that, but then almost immediately it turns into, what the hell am I going to do with that thing. In my case I think that attitude was helped along by decluttering at the same time as instituting a no-buy rule.
Of course after reading it, my Google News feed starting offering me more frugal living articles, which I don't mind. But I smile to myself at the number of them that are some variation of "how to save money without living like a monk." Don't knock living like a monk until you try it.
Extreme Frugality Allowed Me To Retire at 32 and Regain Control of My Life - Not everyone necessarily wants to either retire at 32 or practice the extreme frugality that's described here, but I'm sharing the link because of some interesting points related to my "no buy" rules and 2019 Minimalism. And that's how your attitude towards stuff changes. I found myself very quickly moving away from wanting things. Sometimes even if I have convinced myself we "need" something I still feel deeply indifferent to buying it. It's taken the emotion out of the equation, is I think what I'm trying to say. I can see something and think, ooh I want that, but then almost immediately it turns into, what the hell am I going to do with that thing. In my case I think that attitude was helped along by decluttering at the same time as instituting a no-buy rule.
Of course after reading it, my Google News feed starting offering me more frugal living articles, which I don't mind. But I smile to myself at the number of them that are some variation of "how to save money without living like a monk." Don't knock living like a monk until you try it.
