• Deckname@discuss.tchncs.de
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    7 days ago

    So no student debt for you, good on ya. For me paying my Rent (+Internet and electricity) is already more than 1/4th of what i make, then food, then student loan (1/6th). So i can’t relate to the early retirement movement, tbh.

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      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