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utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻 _@utxo.one 1 week ago
How to not be poor: 1) live below your means 2) buy assets with your surplus 3) continue for 20+ years Living below your means is the hard part, all your friends and neighbours spend so much and so it feels weird to have the smaller house or the older car or do a camping trip over a European getaway. But if you don't wanna work until you're 70, sacrifices must be made.

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Meyer Meyer@primal.net 1 week ago
Appreciate this perspective and agree Living below our means is the real struggle lately though. Want to provide my family a great life and feel awful telling my son I can’t take him to soccer games and shit because everything is a fucking fortune.
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Vincent Anton 1 week ago
I prefer earn beyond my means. Allows me to have enough house for the family and no holes in our clothing.
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Meyer Meyer@primal.net 1 week ago
Said that the last cycle though 🤣 Unfortunately we live in 🤡 world so just need to block out the noise and keep my head down until it gets better
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Vincent Anton 1 week ago
Have children. They help focus your energy and make you more efficient at maximizing opportunity.
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Bfgreen _@briangreen.net 1 week ago
We live this. Hardest part is kids seeing peers with “all the things” and not having the same. Fast forward 20 years, house paid off, four new cars paid off, kids college costs paid off. Both kids starting their professional life with zero debt and a newish car paid for. Now they understand what those sacrifices were for. The irony is that they really didn’t miss out on anything, but that has to be experienced rather than just told.
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Moist 1 week ago
or, 1. get elected to office. 2. steal everyone else's money
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Moist 1 week ago
children cost nowhere near as much as people think. unless you're trying to raise entitled little shits. and they actually save you money. keeping them happy and healthy becomea important over going out every weekend, buying new clothes, having expensive stuff. its going to get covered in vomit, poo, drawn on or broken. so just buy it off Temu. its amazing how little I care about "things" now. I just aim for contentment. And rasing a good family will make any man content.
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tanel 1 week ago
thanks for the reminder nostr unc
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