In order to save some money and live a more frugal life, in the past months I started to:
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Use a lot less my car and using public transportation instead; Saving a lot of money and a lot of stress (My commute is 60 km twice a day, I live in Italy , gasoline price is crazy and roads are generally bad and with high traffic);
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Not spending for everything that I can make at home. E.g. I drink coffee only when at home, I prepare food at home and I bring it with me, without buying any from shops.
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In general: I don't buy an item unless I desperately need it. For example: bus ticket, I need it. A new fancy pen (I love pens), I don't need it. Newspaper, I also like them, but I don't need them.
Background: in Italy, with the € currency, we are experiencing a strange thing: in proportion with the old currency, little things costs way more than in the past.
A little and stupid example: An icecream in the past would cost 1/1000 of a medium wage. Nowadays it costs about 3/1000 of a medium wage. This kind of proportion is more or less correct for any other little item (newspapers, icecreams, pens, sandwiches, bottled water and so on).
This indirectly affects a lot of people, and a lot of them are not realizing how dangerous this is.
March 21, 2017 at 04:20PM
