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Someone asked how to live frugaly.
Live with the bare minimum. In 2025 there is always a cheaper knockoff of whatever product you use and you can still live a great life.
Buy clothes, appliances, big items second hand
Or save up _slowly_ until you have enough.
Or use klarna or a credit card (only for big items)
Stop using credit cards for _small_ items. Take cash to the store and only buy _simple_ foods. Give your extra food to a family in need and stop buying so much stuff you don’t need.
Get rid of your phone bill. Buy a kosher phone or kosher phone knockoff and use wifi at home for Whatsapp and ordering items on the internet.Who are you None2.0?
Male or Female? Religious affiliation? Married, single, or divorced? Age bracket? City or State you live?
Education level? How did you become so contrarian & cynical? Why do you submit multiple posts one after another rather than one unified post?
Would you care to share your life’s biggest disappointment? Who are you most angry at? What kind of response is most meaningful to you in the coffee room? What types of jobs have you tried? If you could change one thing about the Frum community, what would it be?
I’d like to understand where you’re coming from, what your goals are as a member of this group.Sincerely,
Haimy
This was very laudable in times passed. Many mussar giants lived this way. But does it really make sense in our times? For the effort to live this way, you can simply go to, say, law school, and then work several hours a week and have enough for modest living and learn, saven, or do chesed the rest of the time. I am sure baalei mussar spent more hours walking to pick up bread and water and wash their clothes than that. Chofetz Chaim surely spent more time selling his seforim and had enough time left to learn.
Or is there independent value in living in poverty even if it is so easy to avoid it? another way to ask same question – do we have many examples of Yidden who were rich and then gave it all away to live a life of poverty?
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