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What has been your best financial move in life? (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] Blackmist 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Living like a pauper for a few years and paying the mortgage off early.

Also not joining the rat race, and buying new shiny shit for the sake of it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Also not joining the rat race, and buying new shiny shit for the sake of it.

I still don't 100% get the mentality here. Otherwise intelligent people will sink huge money into luxury shit; it doesn't seem to bother them at all if you point out that someone else made up the whole concept of diamonds or whatever to get their money.