Honestly not much generally, life is for living, I’m privileged enough to be in a decent paid job that affords me that luxury. Though if I’m on a run of not saving for a few months, it’s time to find something to dial something back a bit, because that’s a sign I’m potentially living unsustainably
I learned the hard way when I was younger that living financially sustainably should be priority one, every month you live unsustainably is at least a couple of months it’ll take to climb out of the hole. And once you’re pretty deep things take their toll on your happiness
I live in a tiny garage “apartment” with only a washing machine, no dryer, and essentially “babies first refrigerator” too small to even keep a tub of ice cream in the freezer just so that I don’t have to live paycheck to paycheck.
Maybe try putting in the ice cream before the baby?
Seriously? I have priorities man! I can do without the ice cream, but there’s no way I’m going without a baby on ice. What kind of life is that!?
I am a baby first person, too. But they seemed like they wanted ice cream more. To each their own, I guess.
Enough to use the stupid fucking fast food apps that need to ask which location I’m ordering from six times and every screen takes two seconds to load.
I’m a musician, and not a particularly successful one. So I inconvenience myself a lot, all the time, to save money.
I usually consider
- how much I hate doing it
- how long it will take to do vs
- how long it will take to find someone to do it
- how much it will cost. The weight of what is acceptable changes depending on how much I need the money at that time.
Very little
I’ll use an office stapler to close a limb laceration before going anywhere near an emergency room because America is a fucking capitalist hellscape. So, moderate, I guess.
I usually take my hourly wage and compare it to the inconvenience. For example, if that inconvenience takes about an hour of my life, but saves me more than my hourly wage, I take it. There are exceptions of course, for example if I am low on money.
We do this comparison, with the added “will this save money” modification. My time outside of 40 hours per week can’t make me more money unless OT is approved. So that time is worth $0/hr. If the actions i do during that time save me money, I try to do them. It massively increases the amount of money we have for vacations and other fun stuff.
I’m also undiagnosed hyper focused ADHD, so that may be why. My wife tells me I can slow down, but I absolutely cannot.
Yup, that’s pretty much the reason I don’t cook anything that takes more than 15 minutes to make.
I usually enjoy cooking, which is why I do it. But im exactly like this with chores, gardening, etc.
It also depends how much you like the activity. I’d rather do my job for 2 hours than cook for 1 hour.
The amount that is necessary and no more.
Eight
Nice try but “inconvenience” cannot be measured numerically. We need anecdotes.
One time i eight’d to save money.
Woof, I don’t know if I could do that. I did six during college, and that felt like a big sacrifice.
I use spotify premium.
I will pay to avoid inconvenience.
I generally don’t.
I will pay to avoid inconvenience. I work a stressful job, I won’t sacrifice what little free time I have to do things like decorating.
It depends on how much money you make, right ?
Yeah this question is for us 99% of the population who are poor people because we work full-time but our employers will only pay us enough to need to keep returning to work every day.
Sadly it’s true
