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Smokeydope@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Either earn enough or become super frugal and cut down on the expenses to the point you can actually save with what you make The biggest thing a single person can do to reduce their expenses is cut out the rent payments by living in a vehicle for a bit while working and use that money to pay it off. But obviously not everyone has the mental fortitude to live such a radically different lifestyle or freedom from responsibility to do so even if they wanted to.

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Bgugi@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
“life is too expensive to be sustainable…”

“HAVE YOU TRIED BEING HOMELESS?”

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Asafum@feddit.nl ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It doesn’t have to be that extreme, you could just live in circumstances that you don’t prefer that aren’t on the road. I live in a dilapidated garage that is the cheapest thing around. I hate it, I have a playschool size “babys first refrigerator,” no clothes dryer, far from anyone my age, etc… but I can save a few hundred a month that I would have otherwise been throwing away at some corporate landlord.

The idea was to do this until I made enough to afford a house, but COVID came and said “fuck your future and just about every one else’s too. Also I’ma kill millions of you but somehow make housing prices increase anyway.”

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- Smokeydope@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  About the clothes dryer thing, look into this kind of portable washing machine+spin dryer
  
  I watched nomadic fanatics review of one and honestly looks to do a pretty decent job. Heres the review vid
  
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  - Asafum@feddit.nl ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Thanks for the tip! I’ll have to look into that for sure :D
    
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