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Last year, I spent $9,000 total.
I have never taken out a loan for anything in my life. I got a job when I was 14.
Every car I've ever bought I paid for entirely up front, and none of them were less than twelve years old.
I went to a relatively inexpensive university. Paid for with money I had saved over five years of working ahead of time, and alternating semesters between attending school and working.
My entertainment comes mostly from reading, playing the piano (a one-time $1200 expense for a good electric piano that never needs tuning or maintenance), and video games, which I buy twice a year during the Summer and Winter sales on Steam, or Humble Bundles throughout the year. With this approach I spend less than $200 per year on video games.
At one point, I had a job making $13 to $16 an hour full time for three and a half years, and when that job was over with I went for *three years* with no income or support from anyone (no unemployment benefits, food stamps, welfare, nothing) and didn't run out of money.
Now I work about thirty hours per week for nine dollars an hour in a zero-stress job that lets me spend more than half of my time reading. No financial problems.
Stay out of debt. Get cheap hobbies. Have no dependents. It's pretty easy, really.
Jan 9, 2015, 6:58:42 PM
Posted to If People Didn't Have Debt