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tbh I find these articles unrelatable

I’ve always followed things like

earlyretirementextreme.com mnmlist.com mrmoneymustache.com/…/getting-rich-from-zero-to-h…

my mortgage is 1/6th of my monthly pay my next biggest spend is food because I am special needs XD and it drops off quite quick after that

With an EV with home solar charging, a battery and heat pump, I should pay off my mortgage in the next few years and after that I’ll quickly be getting close to barista fire

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Deckname@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
So no student debt for you, good on ya.

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- Eyekaytee@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  i only had a few thousands, thankful for tafe here in Australia
  
  This I can’t relate to
  
  Online, “You can see someone on a boat. You can see someone skydiving,” says Kara Perez, the financial educator behind the sustainable spending platform Bravely Go. “That leads to these questions of, ‘What am I doing wrong that I can’t afford that?’ Or, ‘You know what, I deserve that. Let me figure out a way to achieve that’ — which usually means, ‘Let me put that on my credit card.’” If you see that the whole world has flocked to Europe, you may not rush to book a ticket, but you may do something small to give yourself an immediate dopamine hit — DoorDashing yourself an Italian dinner, for example, or buying yourself a swimsuit for future Sicilian sunbathing.
  
  if you’re ordering doordash or uber eats and having trouble with money i don’t know what to say
  
  uber eats is the epitome of a waste of money
  
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