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A friend who sells Moutai said that there are fewer people buying Moutai this year, and customers who used to drink high grade liquor have also started to choose the middle grade, so that they can not waste on consumption.
People always remember that thrift is a virtue when life is hard.
Now many people say that life is not easy. Indeed, all walks of life are involved.
However, there are always some people around me who live a stable life regardless of the external environment. Their prosperity is not only due to their health and peace of mind, but also because they have the habit of frugality and have a consistent attitude to life, whether the economy is going up or down.
When it comes to thrift, many people may think it is out of date. What age is it? They still sing this song.
No matter what, people who are industrious and spend money in a moderate way have a more stable and rhythmic life than those who are lazy and spend money.
As the economy goes down, life should go up. Only by being diligent and thrifty can we turn the tide.
Illustrator: Salini Vinod
Charlie Munger said at the shareholders' meeting of the Daily Journal that the secret of making money is to save money and live a simple life. When he was young, he didn't have any money, so he saved it for investment. He said that hard work and thrift can lead a better life, which is a very simple truth.
To be diligent and thrifty is not to eat leftovers every day. Clothes are always the same in 365 days, which makes life difficult for me everywhere.
It's about being industrious when you need to be industrious, spending when you need to spend, and saving when you need to save. Its essence is embodied in moderation.
With methodical diligence and thrift, when the big event comes, we can get money to turn around, so as not to be helpless and wandering in the mood.
Mozart was a musical genius, but he died young, partly because of fate, and partly because he personally plunged his life into a painful quagmire. He doesn't know how to live within his means in terms of money, and spends lavishly in life. In addition, his heart is full of jealousy and complaints, and he doesn't know how to simplify. Anyone who is extravagant and full of jealousy and complaints will live a miserable life.
In middle age, people are suffering and miserable. Their health is on the decline and their workplace is not optimistic.
It's better to take advantage of the good times and prepare for a rainy day. When it comes to the bad times, you can save yourself.
How is diligence and thrift reflected in daily life?
Colleagues in Henan asked me why you Cantonese always save money in the corners of the country. They are willing to spend hundreds of yuan for a meal, but unwilling to spare two yuan for a package of paper towels.
This is true.
Every time I go out to eat, I will ask the waiter as a rule whether the paper towel on the table will be charged. If it is charged, I will say, please take it away. I have my own paper towel.
The colleague who invited me to dinner said, "Take it. It doesn't matter. There is no need to be generous. Cantonese will not look down on your thrift, but will look coldly at you for extravagance and waste.".
Before eating, industrious and thrifty Cantonese will ask how much the tea seat fee is, whether the tea is charged, whether the snacks for the first dish are free, and whether the paper towels are given away. The answer is free, so that we can eat in peace. For the leftovers, we will also pack them home without wasting food.
Don't mention our philistines. As people fighting against the petty bourgeoisie, every penny has to be spent on cutting edge. If you can be simple, you can be simple, and if you can be thrifty, you can be thrifty. This has nothing to do with your family background. It's a habit.
Take money seriously, money will take you seriously.
Don't care about face, care about inside, save money well, then you can have money righteously.
Charlie Munger has a famous saying, "The importance of saving money is not how happy you are when you have money, but how embarrassed you are when you have no money."
I am thin skinned and don't like to bother others. I hope to do my best to take care of myself, take care of my family and live with self-respect in this world. All of this requires money as a chip for self-respect.
To save money and live a good life is the real face.
Franklin said that the two empty pockets were not straight. Why? Because you will ask for help.
You should have some money to protect your independence and freedom. You should always say goodbye to your boss and never give up for five bushels of rice.
Thrift is not bitter, the pocket is cleaner than the face, and the heart is the hardest.
I work in the admissions department. I often meet parents who owe tuition fees. Some of them bring their children to the office to write IOUs. I look at the poor child. His head is low, his face is red, and his self-esteem is rubbed on the ground.
I sympathize with families who cannot pay tuition fees, but some are not really poor enough to have no money. Parents would rather spend money to buy clothes, eat and drink, rather than save money to pay tuition fees for their children, to cover their self-esteem.
There was a grandmother who raised her granddaughter alone. The child's parents divorced, and no one wanted her. She was supported by the cleaning grandmother. The hardworking and moral grandmother never defaulted on her tuition fees.
Every penny in the tuition fees is the blood and sweat of her cleaning every room. No matter how hard she works, she will not owe money, because she knows that dignity is valuable, especially the self-esteem of children.
The industrious and thrifty people are not stingy. Indeed, for them, they should spend all the money they should spend, and save every penny they should not spend.
Economy is not a deduction, but a simplified life.
Open your compact mode, and you can simply enjoy life.
After the broadcast of My Altay, Li Juan lived on the vast grassland in the northern Xinjiang, which made us city people yearn for. Today, we envy the wild life that does not need to be squeezed, but we cannot ignore the fact that Li Juan's life is actually very poor.
She lives in a cellar with wooden sticks and plastic sheets as the roof. She sleeps in a marching bed, opens her mouth and breathes in mud. But she can always create a light and lively rhythm of life in a very simple way.
Reduce material desire and simplify life, so that she can endure simple and rough, and live a free lifestyle.
Li Juan used to work in a government office. Her salary was 600 yuan, 200 yuan for rent, 200 yuan for heating in winter, and 200 yuan for living expenses. Even so, five years later, she saved five thousand yuan.
She wrote in the book: "This makes me feel confident enough to change everything."
Life is very tight, but in a simple life, she can still save 5000 yuan of free expenses, have the courage to resign, live a free nomadic life, to write, to create.
If you live a simple life and know how to give up, you can move forward without more weight.
Thoreau said, "The more one can give up something, the richer he is."
It was very difficult to see her writing about the life of the den, but I can always read the consolation and emotion in the words:
"There is no skylight on the roof, and the cave is always dark. However, the sense of security comes from the dark. The outside world is too bright, and the night is so bright. Everything is not hidden. Only our cave, in the infinite open, stretched out our hands to block us slightly.".
The family has ten thousand taels of gold, but three meals a day, thousands of acres of fertile land, but seven feet of sleep at night.
Live simply, even if you don't have a lot of money, you can live contentedly.
No matter where you live and what kind of situation you are in, you can find ways to simplify your daily life and lead a simple life without heavy burdens.
1. Minimal mood
It is a kind of simple and thrifty mood to keep a good mood, balance emotions, not be open and close, not ruminate, not do other people's emotional burden, not consume yourself emotionally. In this way, you can keep your high quality emotional quota with your family, and your core will be more stable.
2. Material minimalism
Life doesn't need too many things. Regular cleaning of unnecessary materials and blocked spaces is also a way to clean your heart.
3. Minimal relationship
Clean up the circle of friends regularly, and don't obsess about the fading relationship. Those who clean up the dust for the circle of friends regularly will also become clear minded.
4. Minimal diet
Resist desire, eat moderately, eat fresh, and feel fresh.
Simple life is all around. Life really becomes simple from every detail of daily life.
People live a simple life in middle age, because your world has become complex and heavy. Simplicity can help you find the key point of balance in complexity.
If you are simple in life, you will have more time to do accurate things, and you will be able to experience life with your heart. This is not a wealth of money.
To paraphrase Mark Twain, life is so short that we have no time to waste. We only have time to love, everything is fleeting.
The simple life is not a deliberate patience for practicing economy, but a conscious choice of life.
Invest the time and money previously spent on material things into accumulating life experience and rich feelings, and do not attach importance to material comparison, but enjoy the sense of peace and balance of personal life and harvest spiritual prosperity.
Like Li Juan, some people are willing to leave the city and go to the rural island grassland to live a natural life where heaven and earth coexist. This is also a kind of wealth.
There is no sudden wealth in material terms, but in terms of feelings, it is also a person of wealth.
The middle-aged people who are going up in life are not necessarily the rich and powerful, but the people who are able to live. The industrious, thrifty and simple attitude of life will enable you to sail through the mountains in distress.
About the author: Brother Qing likes reading, keeping in good health, and focuses on studying women's growth.
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