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Originally Posted by mikewoodbooks
One of my latest money saving ideas I'm pushing is to stop trying to get good deals to save money. It used to be I would recommend checking fatwallet, slickdeals, ebay, etc to get bargains. But lately I'm promoting not shopping at all. Rather than getting a "good" deal on something, don't get anything period. Okay, we do still buy groceries. But I don't watch TV (just free movies from the library) so I don't see commercials and I don't even look through sale fliers. I'd rather not even know what's for sale.
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DW and I have been pretty much living this way for some time, but I just never thought of it in the frame of reference expressed by mikewoodbooks.
I also think of it as flying under the radar. But whatever you call it living modestly is sort of the mirror image of spending irresponsibly. The more you do it, the more it becomes a habit.