• Blackmist@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    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.

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      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.