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for some reason our spam filters mark you as spam if you try to edit your post right away, and then it kind of hides the post (clunky i know, what can you do?)
but i unspammed it!i think we’re on the exact same page. i waffle between wearing shoes with holes that rain gets in (get that from my dad!) and wanting nice things (yo i want a Tesla so bad!). and being frugal does not mean no treats, ever! it means, how can i get a treat for less or treat myself and make it special, not an everday thing that drains all my cash and resources for future things (i know so many people that do this).
i had a friend call me for advice on starting a business (retail/food) the other day. they have had a steady job for about 10 years, never saved, own nothing, have no cash. i told her it was possible to start scrappy (do a kiosk, do a pop up with consumer level equipment from craigslist, etc etc). she quickly realized she didn’t have the resources to make it as substantial and as quickly as she wanted. she has spent everything on going out to eat/bars and traveling the world. which is fine, but as Paula Pant says, you can afford anything, you just can’t afford everything.
yes, you absolutely are not guaranteed tomorrow. thanks for sharing your story, that does change your/our perspective.
i am never opposed to treating yourself/ourselves. we are mostly talking about people that “treat themselves” basically all the time, disposing of their extra income (example was a $20,000 VR chair and a bunch of fancy guns). we’d rather spend that extra money on investments.
i did buy myself a (used on ebay) pair of travel/work shoes when we got home (mine are getting beat up) and a (used on ebay) fancy-ish travel backpack (the one i have is also getting beat up and the zippers are sucking). so yeah, that’s my type of treat, practical, 25% the price of new ; )
i’ve had this happen before, funny that someone doesn’t know where they live! but they might have just moved are are visiting. not much you can do, i would not bother intercepting. wait til it gets sent back to you, tell him you’re happy to resend once he pays for shipping again.
yep, seems like most cities now. tent cities next to stores that will sell you a couch for $40,000.
so funny, we were at this tech conference in Seattle and several people who worked at this org now work where you work and there was a buzz about the IPO when it happened.
pretty! nice find, looks like Incompetent Picker is right on the signature mark.
thanks for sharing! this is a very simple way of starting an inventory system, it’s kind of how we do it too, but with only some of our inventory, i think if we hire someone full time, we would go back and number all our bins and shelves and SKU them too.
i’m a sucker for these little cups too. egg cups, sake, espresso. whatever they may be for depending on the culture, i too love them.
just listed these, they seem too wide to be egg cups, so i called them sake cups too–
https://imgur.com/wZzkrM6right, sorry for that confusion. i was also channeling the great depression when unemployment was 25%. but to tack onto what jay said, in the 2008 crash, unemployment numbers didn’t reflect all the people who decided to just retire early or go back to school because they could not find work, so those people were never counted as unemployed (they just shifted their status). i had a number of friends who decided to go to grad school then because they could not find work and getting a student loan was more practical (hm?).
