What is Frugal Living?
In case you haven’t noticed, the economy in the U.S. is in the toilet. Prices continue to skyrocket and wages aren’t increasing enough to cover it. I’ve even talked to people who have been forced to leave their jobs because they could no longer afford to buy the gas to get back and forth. If that doesn’t spell out a crisis situation, I don’t know what it does say.
Frugal Living is nothing new. In fact it has been around as long as the world has been in existence, we just called those people ‘cheap’ or ‘poor’.
I can hear your replies already. “I’m not poor, why should I bother with frugal living?”
The answer, in a nutshell, is that if you have the choice to not subscribe yourself to the frugal living lifestyle you should be thankful. Many don’t have the luxury of such an option. Food prices worldwide are reaching critical mass, and poverty is reaching epic levels once again. If you don’t believe that, then you must not have been to the supermarket recently.
Most people who live a frugal lifestyle by choice, do so because they want more control over their lives.
Living frugally means using intelligence and creativity. A frugal life is one where you are able to save more of what you earn, grow more of what you eat, and spend less on what you need. Frugal living is not ‘perfecting the art of doing without’, as one friend put it - it is about being smart with what you’ve got and using things to your best advantage.
For example: In decades long past, it was a rite of passage for a young man to learn to change the oil and perform basic maintenance on his own vehicle. Now we live in the era of the 10 minute oil change where convenience trumps savings and those same boys are too busy with their video games to bother paying attention.
Living frugally is about affording yourself the opportunity to make more choices with your own life. Frugal livers truly understand the value of what they have and they constantly strive for new possibilities to challenge themselves to become better stewards and better examples for their families and the people around them.
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