I love being frugal because it allows me to be generous in other ways. My objective is to spend my money mindfully not to be the stingiest on the block. So frugality for me directly leads to mindful generousity... and allows me to have my financial house in order at the same time!
Why do you love being frugal?
Why are you frugal?
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I also like being frugal because it helps me to track where the money goes and to draw up a personal budget. It puts me in control of the money instead of the money controlling me.
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i really do think it's about freedom and choice...
February 9th, 2007 at 02:02 am 1170986533
As a personality trait, I've always naturally leaned towards minimalism. In that, I mean, I don't like clutter too much. I like it when everything has a place and reason. One of the unintended consequence of that minimalistic tendency is frugality.
As a holy war, I've am up against a lot of debt (in my eyes). I have learned that to have debt is basically to live with borrowed money and borrowed time. This is terrible because the longer I am in debt, the more my future life withers away.
Of course, we can debate that it's not so simple as those terms, but that's a discussion for a different place at a different time. Overall, I believe that the sooner I can become debt-free and have money work for ME, the better!
Like everyone else, I too dream of a better life, and achieve that for myself is to slay my own personal debt dragon.
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