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This will probably rub you even wronger, but your defensive response here makes me think the advice was more useful than you think.
Except I'm not the same person the advice was given to
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People need to learn that material possessions are way less important than emotional environment. For most of us, being better parents is about how we parent. Not what we can afford.
Childcare, education, housing (often tied together) and health care. Those are the big 4 expenses that are killing fertility rates, and only one is somewhat material.
In general, if you get N children, then you either favor one child, or each child gets 1/N of the inheritance. Same goes for money available for sending your kid to college. Meaning, as a rule of thumb, the more children you get, the poorer those children will be from that point of view. Like a single can live well from €2k euro per month in most of Germany, but for a family with 3 children the same sum is very little.
And of course there is the entire dateability aspect, too. People with higher income are seen as more attractive than those with lower income.
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Same with having children. “I don’t even want kids. They are needy, expensive, and tie you down.” All true, but having kids was never a choice for you given your financial situation so let’s not pretend you had a say in the matter.
I agree with you but I don't think it's a financial thing but a psychological/maturity thing. People have kids at all income levels. For every one who claims they can't afford kids - someone is raising a family on that same income.
I'm not a fan of buying it once. I prefer buying on feedback. Here's my daily wardrobe: - an oversized plain black T shirt, - a pair of jeans, - a belt, - black socks, - and a pair of boxer briefs. I wear these almost every day. Every single one of these items is cheap enough to buy in bulk whenever I want them. So: If I ever walk into my closet and find myself missing any one of these items due to them all being in…
> Every single one of these items is cheap enough to buy in bulk whenever I want them. I apply something like this to most of my purchases. If I am buying a new phone or some computer hardware, I want to be able to fit another replacement for what I'm about to buy into whatever my budget is. The same goes for clothes, tools for the garden like a tiller or a chainsaw or whatever. And you know what? It's a decent appro…
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Mi Zojirushi/Micom rice cooker is good, but the battery is essentially not user-replacable. I just set the clock any time I'm going to use the timer; it's a real letdown in something that otherwise has lasted me over a decade.
If you own a screwdriver and a soldering iron, some solder braid and some solder, the battery becomes replaceable! This is my objection to minimalism (not that you're advocating, but ObOnTopic): Tools and materials are capability , which seems senseless to minimize!
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Right because Hollywood is great to look to for advice on how to buy low cost high quality items....
Idiocracy is exceptionally prophetic. And we've still got people seriously evaluating if GPT can be better than your doctor.
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Idiocracy is exceptionally prophetic. And we've still got people seriously evaluating if GPT can be better than your doctor.
"Exceptionally" I think you might be thinking its more prophetic than it actually is.
This article, and people posting in this thread are saying that they own 100 or 200 things. I can't believe this at all. My utility room, which basically just has stuff like cleaning products and rags/cloths etc, has more than 200 items in it. It's all useful, we're talking things like bleach, deodorant, shampoo, handwash, etc. My house probably has 50 or more pieces of art on the walls and then another 50 pieces of…
> This article, and people posting in this thread are saying that they own 100 or 200 things. > I can't believe this at all. > Either you guys are all just-moved-out kids, single and living in a single room, or we're defining "thing" differently. I feel like the assumption in this is that people who are single and living in a single room are not "people", and shouldn't be posting about how much they own? My utility r…
antibacterial spray
bleach
cleaning cloths
washing up liquid
floor cleaner
dusters
etc?
They might not be yours, but someone uses these? Maybe the cleaner brings them?
I don't think that people who are flatsharing or whatever are not people. I just think that it's a super narrow slice of life. You might do it from 25-35 maybe and then get a partner and like, not do that any more.