No more greasy burgers for you. No more frothy Frappucinos, hold the whip. No more fresh new duds just because you deserve it. All great decisions, but you must also ask yourself, “how much am I really saving?”
Are you saving enough to pay off all your bills? Are you significantly reducing the strain on your wallet?
Probably not. Saving $10-15 a week will never make you rich. It will help to ease your burden a bit, but little else.
Frugality gets billed as a well built road that will move you from rags to riches when traveled, but if you look deeper into the stories behind the people who pulled off amazing feats of frugality that left them swimming in riches, you’ll find far more than squeezing extra life from a few hundred pennies.
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