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Are We All Just Living Beyond Our Means Now? (www.thecut.com)

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[+] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone -6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

tbh I find these articles unrelatable

I've always followed things like

https://earlyretirementextreme.com/

https://mnmlist.com/

https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2013/02/22/getting-rich-from-zero-to-hero-in-one-blog-post/

my mortgage is 1/6th of my monthly pay my next biggest spend is food because I am special needs XD and it drops off quite quick after that

With an EV with home solar charging, a battery and heat pump, I should pay off my mortgage in the next few years and after that I'll quickly be getting close to barista fire

[–] Deckname@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

So no student debt for you, good on ya. For me paying my Rent (+Internet and electricity) is already more than 1/4th of what i make, then food, then student loan (1/6th). So i can't relate to the early retirement movement, tbh.

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago

i only had a few thousands, thankful for tafe here in Australia

This I can’t relate to

Online, “You can see someone on a boat. You can see someone skydiving,” says Kara Perez, the financial educator behind the sustainable spending platform Bravely Go. “That leads to these questions of, ‘What am I doing wrong that I can’t afford that?’ Or, ‘You know what, I deserve that. Let me figure out a way to achieve that’ — which usually means, ‘Let me put that on my credit card.’” If you see that the whole world has flocked to Europe, you may not rush to book a ticket, but you may do something small to give yourself an immediate dopamine hit — DoorDashing yourself an Italian dinner, for example, or buying yourself a swimsuit for future Sicilian sunbathing.

if you’re ordering doordash or uber eats and having trouble with money i don’t know what to say

uber eats is the epitome of a waste of money