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The art of spending less so you can panic about money in nicer ways later.
means The quality of being careful and economical with money or resources, avoiding waste.
from From the Latin frugalitas, built on frugalis 'thrifty, economical,' which traces back to frux, frugis meaning 'fruit, produce, profit.' The underlying idea is delightfully agricultural: to be frugal was to be 'fruitful' — useful, profitable, yielding worth. The word reached English through French in the 1500s, carrying that quiet old logic that true thrift is not about hoarding but about bearing fruit.
- oldest virtue
- Roman moralists praised it before Christianity existed
- compound power
- saving early beats earning more later, mathematically
- not cheap
- frugality buys quality once, cheapness buys junk twice
- millionaire habit
- most millionaires drive used cars, not Ferraris
- latin root
- comes from frux, meaning fruit or value
warren buffett — billionaire who still lives in a $1.3m house in omaha, nebraska and drives a 2014 cadillac dts
ingvar kamprad ikea founder — furniture billionaire who flew economy class and bought clothes at flea markets until his death in 2018
mr money mustache — blogger who retired at 30 on $25,000 a year by biking instead of driving in boulder, colorado