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

submitted 10 months ago by shootwhatsmyname@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Blackmist@lemmy.world 7 points 10 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.

[–] CanadaPlus 4 points 10 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.