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So he obviously isn't taking his own advice. Maybe he could have posted tips on how to raise children cheaply instead of discouraging having them at all.
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How'd I miss that? Marrying smart means to marry someone as cheap as you are. That would require me to marry someone from the intersection of the sets WomenWhoWouldMarryMe and WomenWhoAreAsCheapAsMe. I suspect that the population of that intersection asymptotically approaches zero.
Well really, how many spouses does one need?
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It doesn't seem nearly as bad as the "live with your parents" advice. I mean, he's advocating all this extreme frugality as a way to afford camera gear , right?
> It doesn't seem nearly as bad as the "live with your parents" advice. What's wrong with that advice? It's an American thing that kids need to move out on their own at 18. My wife's culture sees that as rather harsh. She lived at home until 28, when at 27 she married. Her older sister lived at home, sharing a room with their younger sister, until she was 25 (I think), when she finally married and moved out for the f…
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Can anyone confirm that this is even remotely true? $60K tax-free!?
It's tax-free if you stay outside the U.S. long enough. I believe the limit is 10 months/year, but it might be higher. Of course, that means you're not subject to U.S. income tax, but you might be subject to some other country's income tax depending on where you spent your time. I've met people who work on offshore oil rigs who have (claimed to have) avoided taxes this way, but apparently it is a recipe for an almost…
If you earn more than, I think, $86k outside the US, as a citizen, you have to pay income tax.
And either way, you have to file. The law even says you have to file for 10 years after giving up your citizenship!
The US sucks.
Kudos for not letting the will to frugality operate at the expense of others.
All this pain to drop $2.5k per year on a Nikon camera? Dude, seriously, just take a few months and learn some skills at something, then get a decent job using them. You'll be able to buy a new camera every freaking month . I mean I'm all for living within your means and planning and frugality but seriously, don't eat out except for the cheapest fast food around? That's the wrong way to go about it. Upgrade your cash…
> ==Live with Your Parents== > I'm serious: This is what I did! How to save money: Spend other peoples' money.
That's not really fair. My parents and my gf's parents both have houses with empty space that we could live in that's not being used. Essentially the space is being wasted. I bet many people's parents have similar available space (probably left over from when you were a child and living with your parents already). My gf, who is Chinese, would love to live with her parents (thankfully she is even cheaper than I am). S…
Would you say that an undeveloped greenbelt around a city is wasted?
Empty space in a house is both an option and space. The latter is quite valuable.
Also, some people value the privacy.