I haven't followed this through the year but enjoyed reading the summary:
https://www.theguardian.com/money/blog/ ... hier-wiser
I think that you'd need understanding friends to maintain your social life but as an experiment it was interesting. Extreme frugality not poverty tourism.
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Frugality, but by no means extreme. She allows herself essentials, and then adapts her lifestyle to her self-imposed budget. Thirty quid a week on food and household goods is well below her means, but would stretch beyond the means of someone genuinely poor.
Not sure what you mean about understanding friends. She makes it clear she removed herself from the kind of situation that would've involved social spending.
Not sure what you mean about understanding friends. She makes it clear she removed herself from the kind of situation that would've involved social spending.
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Re: Year of no spending
MistyMeena wrote:I haven't followed this through the year but enjoyed reading the summary:
https://www.theguardian.com/money/blog/ ... hier-wiser
I think that you'd need understanding friends to maintain your social life but as an experiment it was interesting. Extreme frugality not poverty tourism.
The person in question got through their year of no spending by spending £31.60 weekly and a one off £1.95 on a bag of chips.
IOW, they lied.
I an neither impressed or surprised about the old media.
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Re: Year of no spending
Vision25 wrote:MistyMeena wrote:I haven't followed this through the year but enjoyed reading the summary:
https://www.theguardian.com/money/blog/ ... hier-wiser
I think that you'd need understanding friends to maintain your social life but as an experiment it was interesting. Extreme frugality not poverty tourism.
The person in question got through their year of no spending by spending £31.60 weekly and a one off £1.95 on a bag of chips.
IOW, they lied.
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Possibly...corned beef didn't seem to feature at all.
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