What good habits have you developed because you are poor?
The bakery on the corner downstairs, 9 p.m. sharp: Buy one get one free; A snack shop two blocks away will bring in a new batch of last-minute food on the 15th of each month.

In my first job after graduation, I had a canteen. On my first day on the job, I went downstairs to have dinner with my colleagues and listened to them introduce me which window had delicious covered rice and which window had ramen noodles.
Nodding my head and squinting at the price, I shopped around and finally chose the cheapest cold crust. That was the moment I missed most in the university canteen, when you could buy a big bowl of beef noodles or three dishes and one soup for 10 yuan.
After deducting the high rent, utilities, unavoidable transportation costs, and essential living expenses, I found that what was left could not support the cost of food in the canteen.
The first lesson in the workplace is not dealing with the politics of personal relationships, but being forced to plan money.
From then on, I opened to take rice life, because work overtime exhaustion produces occasionally when the idea that does not want to cook, can tell oneself: do not cook tonight, can regret for lunch of 30 yuan tomorrow.
Occasionally, my colleagues complained about the greasy soy sauce pork and the salty stew in the canteen. Then they envied me to bring rice every day, eat healthily and live a delicate life.
I can only whisper in my heart: not delicate, just because of poverty.
Then my salary went up enough to cover the cost of canteen food, and I kept bringing it.
I've learned how to spend less, save more, and enjoy it.
I know which bread is the most cost-effective, which stall vegetables are fresh and cheap, know how to make coke chicken wings better, and gradually feel the sense of achievement brought by the progress of cooking.
I will ask my friends to help me "cut a knife" and buy 300 garbage bags at a low price.
I would stock up on necessities on 618, people would cut off their hands and I would just save money;
I give myself a cooling-off period where I divide the price of something by the weight and then by how often I use it.
The most let me feel at ease, is the number saved on the bank card, hold in the hand only dependable.
The numbers that helped me buy dog food and toys for my pet, the numbers that helped me decide which city I liked to travel to during my long vacation, the numbers that proved that it was possible to be single, the numbers that enabled my parents to have better medical care when they needed it.
In the cracks of life "dig" out is a sense of security, "save" to the confidence.
I once read a paragraph about the consumption concept of contemporary young people:
Thousands of mobile phones said to buy to buy, 15 yuan video membership too expensive; Go to the supermarket shopping hundreds of freely swipe cards, 30 cents of the bag to consider a long time; A meal of three or four hundred hot pot to eat, 2 yuan of paper towels on the table.
Young people today need to spend less to better pay for the life they want.
We have different priorities in our lives, and we're trying our best to get the most out of our money. When it's time to splurge, we're not shy.
Some people rely on the subway and shared bikes to get everywhere, but spend hundreds of thousands of times on a new online celebrity restaurant.
Some people spend a lot of money on firewood, rice, oil and salt, and always bargain in the vegetable market.
Some people wear a pair of shoes for 5 years, yellowing also reluctant to change, but in the half a year of travel has never wronged themselves.
Looking at the delicate and small online celebrity cake, exciting concert scene, different scenery in the trip, we can not help but sigh: "pull" up, true value!
"Cut" down every penny, just changed the way you like to accompany yourself.
Why do young people pick so much these days?
Because the place I want to go is very far, the things I want are very expensive, and the white hair of my parents, the appointment of my friends, and the ridicule of people around me. It all needs money.
The so-called "stingy door", just in the life experience, learned to weigh and choose, is a kind of life attitude to make the best of things. All kinds of care about life is just the expression of loving life.
A penny that should be spent is not a penny that should be spent.
Today's young people take the first step in controlling their lives, starting with controlling money.



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