tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post565784365044514164..comments2024-03-29T06:18:48.509-07:00Comments on Rural Revolution: Is thriftiness only for the rich?Patrice Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06012022335047974670noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post-85066320505981907322018-03-30T10:57:26.482-07:002018-03-30T10:57:26.482-07:00I think I must be bitter or smug or something.
I ...I think I must be bitter or smug or something.<br /><br />I read all this "new" stuff about "radical frugality" and I think, "Wow. When I was a kid, that was just how people lived. Either you were poor and that was just life, or you were either rich or stupid and you laughed at the 'poor backwards hillbillies.'" <br /><br />Now it's trendy and revolutionary, and we have debates about whether "frugality" is part of "white privilege."<br /><br />I don't get it. I just... DON'T.MCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post-22255945613857408622018-03-29T19:28:57.261-07:002018-03-29T19:28:57.261-07:00Frugalwoods is a great blog. Neither Mr. or Mrs. c...Frugalwoods is a great blog. Neither Mr. or Mrs. came from money, nor had money handed to them. The only thing their parents did for them was allow them to graduate with a 4 year degree without debt. They worked and paid for their graduate degrees. They are very smart about saving money, making money go far, and doing without. Mrs. went several years on a no clothes diet-wearing all of her thrift store goodies with nothing new. I have learned a lot from their blog. How sad that frugality is a reason for mockery. <br />-Stealth SpanielAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post-37822922908440194482018-03-29T16:08:05.895-07:002018-03-29T16:08:05.895-07:00Regardless if your apology is sincere, I accept it...Regardless if your apology is sincere, I accept it. We all have our warts, and we all have the responsibility to work on them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post-43688690690873887172018-03-29T13:11:44.002-07:002018-03-29T13:11:44.002-07:00I apologize for being negative, rude, bitter and v...I apologize for being negative, rude, bitter and vindictive. And I apologize for all my other faults that you've yet to uncover.<br />Dock GuyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post-58537860305251175232018-03-29T12:10:42.366-07:002018-03-29T12:10:42.366-07:00Share your opinion, sure, but why the unnecessary ...Share your opinion, sure, but why the unnecessary negativity? No need to call them "cupcakes" or say no one will remember them. There is a line between disagreement and unnecessary rudeness. Being bitter and vindictive is no way to live.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post-82907844945092373172018-03-29T10:26:39.814-07:002018-03-29T10:26:39.814-07:00I have met some seriously wealthy people in my tim...I have met some seriously wealthy people in my time, many of them were so "tight" they squeeked to quote my father. He liked to say that they still had the first dime they made, yet they were net worth millions. <br /><br />Then I look at my niece and her husband. They have two kids and they both work. They are constantly broke and begging my brother for loans that he really cannot afford to give them, since they never pay them back. But yet they have money for tattoos, lots of them, and there is always money for beer, lots of beer. and they constantly complain about being broke. I just don't get it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post-5532862647550256612018-03-29T07:46:40.791-07:002018-03-29T07:46:40.791-07:00Ah yes, let's shut down opposing opinions. Lik...Ah yes, let's shut down opposing opinions. Like that has worked out so well in history.<br /><br />Current events clearly demonstrate that is exactly what is happening in this country today. i.e. Facebook, Google, the MSM pressitutes, schools and of course Big Brother.<br /><br />Dock GuyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post-82310091277395281802018-03-28T17:36:36.210-07:002018-03-28T17:36:36.210-07:00Hey talking about being frugel. My parents in
the...Hey talking about being frugel. My parents in<br />there 90's are going out for <br />easter dinner.We could afford to go with them<br />but think that is a total waste of money. My<br />husbands birthay is comming up inApril. He wants a gun. We would get alot more use out of a gun. And my road finally needs to have<br />the ruts taken out and gravel put down.So I rather have the gravel and the gun then dinner. If my husband can get out of town because of snow, we may have pizza for Easter.Being together and buying what we need<br />and can use means more to us.And my stomack<br />right now cannot tell the diffrnce between the 2 hot dogs that I had or the 20-30 dollars a plate for dinner.<br />Any Blessings<br />DEbbyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post-90879242420050168242018-03-28T15:51:02.557-07:002018-03-28T15:51:02.557-07:00One of the things my husband and I practice is loo...One of the things my husband and I practice is looking at everything we must spend in regards to his take home after tithe hourly wage. For instance we caved in and went to lunch the other day and it was awful food. He had to work for an hour and a half to pay for those awful tacos. If we look at each expenditures that way it makes it much easier to decide what to spend and where to spend it. We recently got a bid for some stucco repairs and figured out that it was going to take my husband two and half weeks work to pay for those repairs. We cut out what we could on the repairs based on that knowledge. Frugality is being a good steward of the money you are blessed with. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post-79141839710714726012018-03-28T15:45:33.756-07:002018-03-28T15:45:33.756-07:00'"For the rest of us, there are no divide...'"For the rest of us, there are no dividends: just thrift," says Mr. Howard.'<br /><br />Anyone who believes ↑that↑ does not understand anything about money or about applying basic arithmetic.<br /><br />It depicts the quintessential attitude of ignorance and failure, born of a refusal to learn or take responsibility.<br /><br />I'm a self-made millionaire in my 30s, who started from zero, never had a dollar of debt, and got here working an 8-5. No "bourgeois circumstances."<br /><br />I did it, and what one man can do, others can do.<br /><br />What Mr. Howard needs is not auspicious beginnings. He needs an open mind and a fire in his belly.<br /><br />Nice article.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post-24142652358734564772018-03-28T11:18:36.790-07:002018-03-28T11:18:36.790-07:00Why so negative? If you don't have something n...Why so negative? If you don't have something nice to say...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post-82864616911349964792018-03-28T11:13:43.853-07:002018-03-28T11:13:43.853-07:00People would ask my husband how he could afford a ...People would ask my husband how he could afford a stay at home wife and six children. He usually responds that we would sacrifice the things that others feel they must have. We rented for the first 19 years of our marriage, didn’t go on a real vacation until our 16th year of marriage and was a single vehicle family for several years. All the sacrifices were and are worth it. Savings is nice, yes, but having a mama who can care for babies and home is even better. Sounds like we are similar in thought processes! <br /><br />Ouida GabrielAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post-37133204620922316852018-03-28T10:20:13.968-07:002018-03-28T10:20:13.968-07:00I enjoy reading several different frugality blogs,...I enjoy reading several different frugality blogs, including Rural Revolution and Frugalwoods. As we are both early retired due to health issues, I am glad that we have practiced frugality to some degree all our lives. It is what enables us to fund this unexpected shift to retirement. Frugality gives one a "leg up" no matter where or when you start.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post-28770772512649699042018-03-28T08:49:31.320-07:002018-03-28T08:49:31.320-07:00It seems odd to think that one has to wait until t...It seems odd to think that one has to wait until they're "poor" to be frugal. --MariaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post-51942457005819335752018-03-28T08:31:23.173-07:002018-03-28T08:31:23.173-07:00When I was a stay-at-home mom, one of my husband&#...When I was a stay-at-home mom, one of my husband's co-workers asked it we had outside income. Hardly! What we had was careful money management that allowed me to stay at home with our daughter while we both enjoyed hobbies and contributing to our church and to charities. Our savings weren't as great as we might have wanted, but we could have survived a layoff for a few months. We just planned how to spend money and didn't buy anything that we couldn't afford fairly easily and always felt that we had enough to help others.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post-16332759684762370592018-03-28T07:22:31.435-07:002018-03-28T07:22:31.435-07:00Cost is always a consideration. However I believe...Cost is always a consideration. However I believe Value is more important and harder to find.Dennisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post-34294247505246226902018-03-28T07:11:24.168-07:002018-03-28T07:11:24.168-07:00All the poor people I have met ( and I have had a ...All the poor people I have met ( and I have had a period in my life when I was extremely poor, for an American, myself ) all seem to content themselves with coveting what every one else has that they don't have. And then their kids covet, and then their grandkids ...and it is TAUGHT. My Father was brought up extrmemely poor and my husband also , the thing that set them apart from some of their family members was little very covetness and willingness to do lots of hard work , and to improve themselves. Some of the others have fallen into the covetness trap even tho some have improved themselves. They drown themselves with huge credit card debt trying to get all the things they feel entitled to. I am sure they look at us , me with my 200,000 mile vehicle , and hand down furniture ,and wonder why we don't have what they have...They LOOK like they are doing financially much better but they are always short of money and in the grips of money drama even bringing some of their marriages to an end ( nothing like multiple divorces and children by various people to improve finance ..)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post-45836312515669339362018-03-28T05:59:22.753-07:002018-03-28T05:59:22.753-07:00I think the overlooked point lost in all this is t...I think the overlooked point lost in all this is the basic math that if two families practice the same degree of frugality, but one family starts from a position of advantage, like the Frugalwoods did (and I am quite familiar with them/their blog), that family will end up ahead regardless.<br /><br />So the Browns (B) start ahead with families who help them with college or connections to the job market or help towards a house downpayment or car payment or insurance payments or whatever - and the Smiths (S) started out unable to live at home during school, unable to afford school, unable to make the connections to a good job early, so took on debt to pay rent or whatever - the point is that both families, debt or no debts, who decide to get frugal, get out of debt, get ahead, try to invest, end up financially independent - the point is that they are not started from the same point mathematically. The Browns had financial advantages or other privileges that later concurred financial gains that the Smiths did not.<br /><br />That is basic math. The odds are the Browns will always be ahead because they began ahead of the Smiths.<br /><br />Should this mean the Smiths should quit, go home, and cry to be rescued? NO. Because really, you'd think that any position of improvement would be worth fighting for, being frugal for.<br /><br />Really, working hard to live beneath your means in order to get ahead is just plain common sense. And I can say that as someone who practices it and who had to do my fair share of scratching just to get where I am now.<br /><br />It'd be great if we could all end up wealthy enough to live off the interest and dividends of our investments; if we had enough money that our money made money for us. But I've met many who simply don't understand how wealth works, much less how to get "rich". They don't even have the basic financial literacy to live within their means and figure out how to meet expenses, much less pay off debts. And THAT is a huge failure of education - blame the public, private, home or "un-" schools - but every child should be taught financial literacy!<br /><br />That would be a good start. Teach your children about money, time, and how to manage both!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post-20746022272639790172018-03-27T22:35:06.328-07:002018-03-27T22:35:06.328-07:00And I also poked around the Frugalwoods website. W...And I also poked around the Frugalwoods website. While it seems they 'came' to frugality from a different path than myself, I can see how it would appeal to the younger generations. One can only hope that more younger folks will take their message to heart. Grammypreppernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post-80877689022840933602018-03-27T22:05:25.464-07:002018-03-27T22:05:25.464-07:00I am just shaking my head at that article (I just ...I am just shaking my head at that article (I just HAD to read it). Sure, maybe they (the Frugalwoods) had some support, but it sure sounds to me they made conscious and wise decisions. If more people, regardless of their 'generation' or position in society made such good decisions, we wouldn't have so many dependent on handouts. We live paycheck to paycheck, but being frugal keeps us off the 'dole'. And we are late baby boomers, who made poor decisions earlier in life, We are working now to make things better. So anyone can do it at any time. Being frugal is good no matter where you are in life.Grammypreppernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post-67571217065252787342018-03-27T18:39:48.348-07:002018-03-27T18:39:48.348-07:00I'd rather get diet tips from Rosie O'Donn...I'd rather get diet tips from Rosie O'Donnell than frugality tips from these two cupcakes.<br /><br />No one will remember Howard.<br /><br />Dock GuyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post-38893110788458079492018-03-27T18:09:51.173-07:002018-03-27T18:09:51.173-07:00In 1968 my wife was out of town so I went to the n...In 1968 my wife was out of town so I went to the new Holiday Inn in town which was a new franchise for my dinner. There I ran into my friend George who was there with one of his out-of -town underwriters. After drinks the underwriter guy offered to buy dinner so we went into the dining room.. Prime Rib was the special so we ordered it. I had never had it before. The guy then ordered a bottle of Pinot Noir. After eating the prime rib and drinking the Pinot Noir I was amazed that I had NEVER eaten anything that good. I resolved then that I would make enough money to be able to eat that way anytime I wanted to. That was a turning point in my life. There have been a couple of times that I was broke, but I never lost my vision. I ate like that tonight and I am old and retired. Not rich, but quite well off. I was never frugal:I just made sure that I worked very hard and very smart. The best advice I give is NEVER use debt to buy anything that does not produce income. If you can't make money on borrowed money don't borrow it. But if you need it to buy something that will make you money do so. Just be careful. ---ken Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post-38992493345704263762018-03-27T17:15:39.921-07:002018-03-27T17:15:39.921-07:00Hey everyone I am still not as tight as one
could...Hey everyone I am still not as tight as one<br />could be,but I spent almost 5,000 dollars last<br />week because i do save quite. Unfornaty Uncle<br />Sam and the IRS got almost 3,000 of it and as<br />went into town to get that in the mail and make<br />the truck payment,well I went back into town<br />the next day and payed the truck off. We still had 2,000 on the truck.So any way I think that is part of the reason that we do <br />save somewhat<br />Blessings DebbyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post-33426218958563586462018-03-27T17:11:05.203-07:002018-03-27T17:11:05.203-07:00How can you get wealth without being frugal? Seem...How can you get wealth without being frugal? Seems like you dan't have one without the other.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5526768924178592295.post-49864027310699222452018-03-27T17:02:26.671-07:002018-03-27T17:02:26.671-07:00There are limited ways to increase your income. T...There are limited ways to increase your income. There are almost an infinite amount of ways to increase your frugality. One costs time or money or life; the other costs you (perhaps) some convenience or a small piece of fleeting joy.Toirdhealbheach Beucailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14872794169534403463noreply@blogger.com