by Cassie Howard | Apr 6, 2017 | Sales |
I just read an article written about a woman who decided to spend nothing except on the bare necessities in life. So food, housing, toiletries, and a few other odds and ends. It was meant to be an inspirational story about how you can get by on very little, but to me it was just straight up DEPRESSING. Of course you get by on very little money. But why on Earth would you want to simply “get by”? I did the whole frugal living thing for many years. I even built a business on the concept of saving as much money as possible and spending the minimal amount. And in the beginning, I liked it! It was fun. It was a good challenge. But in the end, I was depressed. I would sacrifice anything I needed to in order to save a buck. I got into couponing and forced myself to eat shitty, chemical-filled foods because those were the ones I could get for free I avoided taking any kind of vacations and when I did, I would stay in the shittiest places pavailable I stopped buying presents for my husband during the holidays I wore the same clothes for years and years, even if they were stained and/or ripped I didn’t allow myself to go out and have fun unless someone else offered to pay I did whatever necessary to avoid spending money. And in the end – I wound up depressed, alienated from many friends and family members, and I’d turned into a raging bitch that could be set off at any given moment. I sucked the...
