And finally I have some nice, fat invoices out to be paid. After a slow year in consulting and I have lots of wonderful memories of the previous five years of eating at nice restaurants every week to last me the rest of my life. That year of expense savings is gone now - my savings account is lower than it was when my dad opened it for me with my 6-year-old birthday money. I had a bad year and I'll tell you what it looked like: eight months of denial, four months of depression, then acceptance and self-preservation. And though I had a year's worth of living expenses saved, I didn't save more except in retirement accounts I wouldn't dare touch. I made as much money within my first five years out of college as they did in their last jobs so I thought their penny pinching was for people who were "middle class." I was free from money worries and also self-employed, hanging out at Morton's in DC with people who are semi famous. It used to be that you got a better interest rate on savings but the process of depleting your life's savings once a month to cover you still will stop splurges from becoming a splurging habit. Next he moves what he needs to pay from savings to checking and uses that balance to write checks (electronically now). Sometimes he finds things that don't make sense and follows up. My dad sits down once a month with bills and looks like an accountant checking each charge for accuracy. The second lesson is max out your savings and retirement accounts. This is the practical advice for what it is to live below your means.
Obviously it's so you don't pay interest to anyone now or are stuck with payments you can't afford later. Use credit cards as a convenience to earn free rewards and pay them off every month.
There aren't any details for the main lesson: only buy things you would pay cash for - especially cars. Our vacations were camping or grandparents, and they splurged once on Disney World and twice for Christmas in Austria while we lived in Germany. My parents were such tight wads that spending my own earned money felt like a rebellion.
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