Quote from: Plaguedeath on February 22, 2023, 11:32:45 AM

Quote from: Marcellin9 on February 22, 2023, 08:32:31 AM

they spend seven bucks on a cup of coffee almost every morning, throw a hundred dollars on some gym membership cards but never show up training, have dinner with some random girl in an expensive restaurant, buy drinks in bars and waste hundreds of dollars... The list goes on and on.

Don't need to buy a cup of coffee for seven bucks, buy a good manual coffee grinder for $100 and 2 pounds coffee beans for $50, you can drink it for 1-2 months.

Don't need to have gym membership, just workout without gym facilities e.g. push up, sit up, running, etc.

Don't need to have a dinner in an expensive restaurant, there's a lot delicious street foods you can choose.

Don't drink, it's unhealthy, expensive and addictive.

After all it depends on each person choice, my choice is the right one while majority of people will pick the left one.

At first I really wondered in which country you pay 7 dollars for a cup of coffee or 100 dollars for a coffee grinder... It seems that coffee is that expensive in Seoul or Doha. I guess the revenue goes with that price point. For the poor it must be very difficult in those countries.

Non-essential expenses are linked to the pleasure that we believe they provide and which strongly resemble habits or even addiction.

Every human being knows that smoking, drinking, taking drugs is expensive and is not particularly good for health, but the brain having associated it with pleasure, it is very difficult to get rid of it. It's the same with compulsive spending. We think it makes us happy but in the end we pile up piles of clothes for nothing.

When we reach a stage where we have difficulty paying our rent or other essential things, we have to rethink our way of having fun: having dinner with friends at home is fun and it costs less than a restaurant, riding a bike to get around when you can etc etc etc.

It's not easy to change your habits, sometimes you have to be very creative to save money, but sometimes it becomes vital.