Tightwads
There's saving money, and there's being tight: saving money at the expense of other people, or simply for the miserly hell of it.
Tell us about measures that go beyond simple belt tightening into the realms of Mr Scrooge.
( , Thu 23 Oct 2008, 13:58)
There's saving money, and there's being tight: saving money at the expense of other people, or simply for the miserly hell of it.
Tell us about measures that go beyond simple belt tightening into the realms of Mr Scrooge.
( , Thu 23 Oct 2008, 13:58)
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Not at all
By all means have all these things. And by all means tell people these things. But just learn to structure it more appropriately- start off with your philosophy and then do the listing stuff out after that.
Otherwise it sounds like "I AM THE GREATEST, YOU ALL SUCK!".
Same as if I pointed out that it took bloody ages to learn enough to tweak my PC to those levels without spending 6k or to figure out how to get everything working together properly (before finding the easy way... damnit!). Then said that "everyone else is wrong and inferior to me for not doing this stuff". You'd think "Uber's just talking shit and showing off how incredibly nerdy he is. What a twat.".
Edit: And Carpe Diem is a good philosopy to have so long as you remain relatively debt-free. That way you get to enjoy life right up to the end of it (or pay for a flight to Switzerland if you find you're not enjoying old age sufficiently...).
( , Fri 24 Oct 2008, 16:04, 1 reply)
By all means have all these things. And by all means tell people these things. But just learn to structure it more appropriately- start off with your philosophy and then do the listing stuff out after that.
Otherwise it sounds like "I AM THE GREATEST, YOU ALL SUCK!".
Same as if I pointed out that it took bloody ages to learn enough to tweak my PC to those levels without spending 6k or to figure out how to get everything working together properly (before finding the easy way... damnit!). Then said that "everyone else is wrong and inferior to me for not doing this stuff". You'd think "Uber's just talking shit and showing off how incredibly nerdy he is. What a twat.".
Edit: And Carpe Diem is a good philosopy to have so long as you remain relatively debt-free. That way you get to enjoy life right up to the end of it (or pay for a flight to Switzerland if you find you're not enjoying old age sufficiently...).
( , Fri 24 Oct 2008, 16:04, 1 reply)
I agree
you are probably right on the structuring.
My debt is mimimal and payable with a months income - I owe nothing else to anybody else.
I really do hate tightwads though... :)
( , Fri 24 Oct 2008, 16:15, closed)
you are probably right on the structuring.
My debt is mimimal and payable with a months income - I owe nothing else to anybody else.
I really do hate tightwads though... :)
( , Fri 24 Oct 2008, 16:15, closed)
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