She came from the rural areas of Anhui Province, her parents are rural elementary school teachers, the family is not rich. She came out to work at an early age. She has a very strong personality, works very hard, and is a very diligent person. She also has one of the most admirable virtues that many people are ashamed to be inferior to--that is, she is frugal in life. That's not just any frugality, it's something a lot of us can't even hope to live up to. It's really unbelievable, jaw-dropping and awe-inspiring to say the least.
As China's first-tier city, China's most economically developed, and China's largest international metropolis, Shanghai's living consumption level must be known to everyone. Her monthly pocket money never exceeded 100 yuan, mostly controlled within 50 yuan, or even less.
She is the only daughter of her family, came to Shanghai to work after graduating from high school, and then married to a rural suburb of Shanghai, settled down in Shanghai, and gave birth to a child. Since then never returned to her hometown. She has a wish, and her arrangement and plan, husband and wife work together, **** the same efforts to struggle and fight, through working to save money. In the far suburbs of Shanghai town to buy a set of commercial housing, her parents from Anhui to Shanghai to pension, family reunion together.
In order to achieve this goal and realize this dream, she spared no effort to be frugal, save money, and scrimp and save. She earns thousands of dollars in salary every month. She never spends a penny of this money indiscriminately. In addition to financial investments and buying a fixed amount of gold every month, the rest is basically saved up by her. She lives in the company's group home and rarely goes home to stay. Her children, who are only a few years old, stay at home in the countryside, and her husband also works outside. The younger children are taken care of by her in-laws.
As our company belongs to the textile and garment industry. The company will often offer our employees, cheap treatment of some inventory backlog (outside the order, the quality of some problems) of clothing. With the company has a business relationship with some other garment companies will often do the same. So there is a lot of opportunity to buy inexpensive and good quality clothing. Not to mention the fact that clothing is a durable product. As long as you don't get tired of the old and don't try to keep up with the latest fashions, you can keep your spending in this area to a minimum.
The company for the staff is a package of food and housing, usually work, food and housing in the company. They don't have to spend money on themselves. Her monthly pocket money expenditure on the simplest daily expenses, such as toothpaste, toothbrush, snacks, paper and other necessities. These things, the company is not provided, only by their own pockets.
It is reasonable to say that, like her so thrifty people how will choose to eat snacks? It looks quite puzzling and feels as if it is a bit extravagant and out of character with her habits.
It turns out that the company has a rule, all the rest days, holidays, the company's cafeteria to close, do not provide employees with food service. Then the problem of eating will have to be solved by themselves. In order to cope with this problem, she had to go outside to buy some snacks to fill up the hunger.
Her most favored snack is actually not special, very simple. It is the fried sunflower seeds that people usually see. She buys the cheapest bulk sunflower seeds, and each time she goes to buy a portion of up to no more than three or four taels. Whenever she couldn't eat in the cafeteria on days off or holidays, she would peel a little bit of sunflower seeds to satisfy her hunger. Eating only a small handful at a time, will never go over the limit and eat more than one grain. This is a her month's quota consumption.
In the hundreds of employees throughout the company, can not find than her more hardworking, more frugal people.
Now I've been out of the company and back home for a few years. I never saw her again. I don't know if her wish was finally realized. Did the family reunite as they wished? Only later did I hear that her father, however, was suffering from cancer.
Where there's a will, there's a way. The world is not a place where you can't be happy with the way you look at things! She is a filial daughter. As a former colleague, in addition to admiration, I can only heart eyes, in a distant place, silently bless her and her family!
A: There is one in my village, a woman, sixty years old, the hands of a certain amount of savings, talking about the way, feel very reasonable people. Her husband is silent, more honest people, all listen to her command. People say stingy is petty, she stingy but no reason.
A, and pro-sister break the road! Her pro sister is also her matchmaker, married in my village, pro sister's only son is also her nephew got leukemia, the cost of large, brother-in-law asked her to borrow money a few times, did not borrow, sister of her gas. Suddenly a year, the nephew died, she did not send a gift and did not go to the sister's home to see, from then on cut off the exchange.
Second, with the pro-girlfriend break! Her husband has two sisters, according to custom she called them little aunt. The youngest aunt married, she took the gift money does not return a point, that year, the road is broken. The eldest aunt's husband got sick and died, she did not send gifts and did not go to see, from then on, also broke the road.
Third, she offended the whole village. My village has a custom, no matter who do sixty birthday, to the whole village to send birthday noodles. The original is a big bowl of shredded meat noodles, after changing customs, each half a pound of good noodles, simple, this custom to maintain to this day. Her husband is older, do sixty years old, set off fireworks, just do not send birthday noodles, the whole village has comments. This year, when she turned 60, it was the same! The problem is that other people do sixty, she never refused to accept other people send birthday noodles, causing the whole village to point out, say long.
The key to this is the fact that there are no friends or relatives in the area, and the two of them often stay at home and rarely go out to see what's going on. The first time I saw this, I was in the middle of a conversation with a man who had been in the middle of a conversation with a woman! The three daughters were born, but also because of the problem of gift money, affection cold.
The world is a strange place.
A friend, is really unable to spit. This buddy let's just call him Buckle for short.
The first thing is that the university summer vacation, buckle goodness, please eat crayfish, a *** four people, ordered 3 pounds of crayfish, drank a box of beer, I do not remember what to drink beer, anyway, more than 90 a box of it, buckle later checkout, from this box of beer can not get, every time we meet together, always have to say that we drank a box of beer cost him 90 oceans.
The second thing, New Year's Eve, in the hotel opened a room, three buddies intend to sleep, the results of the buckle know, hard to run to play, with a girlfriend, brother, girlfriend's sister, girlfriend's girlfriend. Well ah, there is no place to sleep, a few men playing cards, the girls sleep. To the middle of the night, a few women said to eat late-night snacks, we ate dinner, did not go down, buckle brother made a phone call, asked us to eat beef skewers, I said to eat, he gave us to bring up, Nima, a **** with three skewers! A person a string! This is also even if, playing an all-night card, we all smoke well, I have two packs of cigarettes, brother two packs of cigarettes no, thought buckle brother and his brother did not bring cigarettes, smoking ours did not say anything, Nima to the morning, we have no cigarettes, buckle brother from the pocket out of a packet of cigarettes, unwrapped, after a person sent a go!
The third thing, or read the time of the university, I, a brother, buckle brother three people Internet cafe all-night, to the 11 o'clock, hungry, because all know buckle brother more buckle, so intend to tease him, let him treat to eat noodles, let a person surprised buckle brother actually agreed to, but also bought a drink, then really surprised. The next day from the Internet cafe out, asked the buckle brother last night how so atmospheric, buckle brother said yesterday his birthday, treat should be!
There are so many things about Buckle, sometimes really speechless, after graduating from the university also slowly did not contact, really feel that I do not know, too petty!
Life meets a lot of stingy people, but the most stingy is my current neighbor across the street, Lao Huang.
Old Huang is 51 years old this year, both husband and wife are civil servants, on a son on the graduate school. According to the old Huang couple should be not worried about food and clothing life rich people, but he did things and his identity does not match.
I went to the supermarket with him to buy eggs, eggs have recently risen in price, 5.8 yuan a catty, he was too expensive to look at the side of the deal, there is a plastic pot containing the yolks and egg whites shells, 30 cents a, which is exactly ten yolks, he yanked a plastic bag, the loose eggs all poured in there, I told him that the cheap is cheap, but I feel that it is not very hygienic. His head tilted stubbornly said all the same, not delayed to do tomato scrambled eggs. The two of us walked to the door, her daughter-in-law saw the face of a little embarrassed, to the old yellow is a scolding.
I also found that he stole the unit of pure water. His unit is not far away, the old yellow every morning at 6 o'clock on his beloved "two eight bar" bike out, the back of the clip a pure water bucket, not a moment to come back, a person to the bucket to carry up to the back of the upstairs, met me and embarrassed smile and said that the exercise of the body.
Go to the market to buy food, are small daughter-in-law old lady and vegetable vendors price, the old yellow a big man is also standing in front of the stalls and stall owners because of the five cents to fight the red face, stall owners speak very difficult to listen to, but also wrestling, I stood next to the really want to dish out the money to him. The last thing I want to do is to make a concession, and I'm sure you'll be happy to know that I'm not the only one who's going to be able to do that.
The old yellow basement aisle are piled up on the cardboard boxes, nothing to go out and pick up, but also once and a scavenger hunt for an old man for a small cardboard box hands. Property owners came to his house a few times, saying that it is easy to catch fire, when the loss is not worth it, let him hurry to clean up. He was again a crooked head, said viciously and does not affect the people, I worked hard to pick up the cardboard boxes have to save enough to sell a certain number of it. Property to see his age, but also do not bother with him, just every month in our unit door to post a deadline to clean up the notice, we look straight to shake his head.
He went to the field to see the children, do not want to take the high-speed rail, always squeeze the green car, sometimes can sit more than 30 hours hard seat, the children because of this no less angry with him, and even said that he will not let him come back to see the words, he is always rubbing his hands hehehe giggle.
The old yellow man is good, chatting with him from time to time to show that he has saved a lot of money, but just can not change this problem of withholding, he said that this is estimated to be the fetus with a hobby is to love to look at the passbook on the money up. I said put before I guess you put the money on the bed full, one by one counting to play, he heard a laugh. His daughter-in-law also defended him, my old Huang is not a door, he that is a good life, so everyone laughed.
The most stingy regardless of age and gender and personality and habits related to share a few practical examples
1? Plastic bag people
Since the plastic bag charges, many people began to pull the bag of bulk food pull a lot of bags in the hand can be loaded with things can also go home as a garbage bag
2? pickpocket people
Whether it is asparagus, or green vegetables or corn, try to find a way to put it in the bag, and the bag will be used as a garbage bag
2?
Whether it's asparagus, bok choy, or corn, it's always a good idea to peel off the old leaves so you can get the best deal on the scale
3) The Discount Man
When supermarkets have limited time discounts, such as 20% off after 8:00 p.m., you'll have to weigh the food ahead of time, wait quietly at the register, and then go to pay for it once it's time to buy it
I've seen one guy carefully tear off the sticker that was on the scale, and replace it with a cheaper sticker, which felt like it was too much
I've seen one guy carefully remove the stickers and replace them with cheaper stickers.
1, low-fare people
The Internet is always saying that low-fare tours are a scam to get people to spend money, and I know a woman who specializes in picking low-fare tours, and every time she goes to a shopping store, she cooperates with the tour guide but refuses to buy anything, no matter how much the guide says, she doesn't budge, and she shares with me that, "Some people in the tour will buy it, and it doesn't hurt to give them a few words, but it's a good thing that you ate, drank and stayed there. The result is that the whole plate of prawns is too much to eat, secretly wrapped in paper towels and stowed in a bag to take away as a midnight snack. p>
There are those who put coke bottles in their toilet tanks, those who keep their faucets small so that more water can be used, those who put a bucket under their sinks to catch dirty water for flushing, and those who ask that rice water not be poured out and used for washing vegetables
Frankly speaking, apart from the fact that it's a waste of money on the country's water bill, I don't think it's a bad idea, but it's a waste of money and I'm just too lazy to do anything about it
2) The big spenders
All household items are in the same place, and they're all in the same place. p> All household items are stocked at once on holidays like Hanukkah
It's not just about picking something and putting it in your cart, it's about choosing the right brand, the right size, accurately calculating the price per unit, and making the best choices based on ever-changing and intellectually challenging promotions
I could never do this with my thick-headedness, but according to the precise analysis done by one of my girlfriends, I've been spending 30% more than I need to every year
I've been spending 30% more than I should. 3) Second-handers
They are very good at finding second-hand resources in their circle of friends and finding treasures on second-hand websites
A friend who gave birth to a baby didn't spend a penny on all the clothes, toys, teaching aids, cribs and strollers, which is actually quite environmentally friendly, just pay attention to the hygiene
There's another guy who is very good at finding second-hand cameras, and he also finds a lot of good stuff with very little money, which is quite admirable. He is the most stingy person I've ever seen in my life, and people say that small stingy is stingy themselves, big stingy is special stingy others. I've been playing with him for half a year, and I've never seen him use his money for anything else.
I'll give you a few small examples: once, we went to play, we are thirsty, just see a cold flour stand. We all sat down and drank cold noodles, after drinking, which I have a friend to pay the bill, pulling out a fifty dollar, he grabbed over and said he helped to buy, the boss said to charge thirty dollars on the recovery of twenty dollars, he to their pockets a stuffed, on the money out of the friend said: as you treat me to breakfast tomorrow.
This is nothing, there is a time, we play together, I finished smoking to buy cigarettes, he also went with me, I bought a pack of cigarettes he hitchhiked to buy a large bag of snacks, said to his daughter to eat, more than my cigarettes are a few times. Later went to drink, we all said drink well, he said we did not drink in place, and then open a bottle, to everyone added a little, the remaining seven or eight two, naturally, was his reason not to waste and brought back. Everyone said behind his back: a rooster from his side all the way, he can pick out an egg (testicles). Later, I heard that he had two suites and a front room.
I've seen the most stingy is Shanghai's ten billion dollar Shen boss - has the largest school in Shanghai, running for fifteen years, only forty students.
How stingy is he? I'll tell you how strange he is.
This Shen boss's villa in Shanghai covers an area of 4000 square meters, can you imagine? How luxurious is that?
He owns a school and the land valuation is 3.6 billion dollars.
Here's how stingy he is!
This is the real-life Groucho, right?
This is the most stingy I've ever seen, and there's no comparison between the stinginess of us little people and his unkindness for wealth.
That's what being rich is all about!
My husband ah, after falling in love with him for the first time shopping, I bought Shiseido eye cream, more than 200 it, he said you so spend money can not. My mom and sister never bought these in their lives. After we got married, sure enough, he was absolutely even-handed. My mother-in-law and I were treated as if we were on equal footing, and only my mother-in-law spent more than I did. But my mother-in-law also has two daughters who buy things for her. I ...... I have I earn my own money. After I got married, I asked him for money and must not get it. Want more, he said you beans can not afford to buy, you are still qualified to use? To small money, he said, so a few hundred dollars you do not have a salary?
His standard for spending money is based on what the fuck it costs. His mom loves to travel and spends tens of thousands of dollars a year traveling, he does not feel luxury. Granny eat supplements, also thousands per month, the husband said that the mother-in-law to eat I can also eat, he allowed, this is the right thing to do. But the elderly make-up clothes do not spend much, I just spend, he felt I waste.
There is such a person to speak out to see if he is stingy, work a group of four people, playing poker at noon, set 2.4.6.8 yuan a **** 20 yuan to buy food, steamed buns in the unit to do dishes for lunch, this in the 6 yuan people said, on average, one person of five dollars, I give you a dollar I will not eat lunch. How can this person be like this?
I've seen the most stingy people is myself, I'm 43 years old. 15 years old out of work. I've had a few experiences where I've gone hungry without money. I'm not sure if you're going to be able to get a good deal on this. Until now are living very frugal. To what extent? Even my mom can't stand it. Most of my clothes are over 10 years old. The only one or two that are relatively new are the ones I wear when I go out with my wife.
I just took this picture, and I've been wearing this thermal underwear for over 10 years, and the cuffs are worn down like this. I can't afford it, but now I never spend money that I can't afford to spend.
But I will never save on my wife and children. The child's toys can be piled up in a house, wife to buy clothes I never care, but my wife is also by my perennial influence, and now also live quite frugal. We are almost rarely down the restaurant, like the dishes they learn to do, what sweet and sour pork, Kung Pao chicken, boiled fish, they will do a lot. Only last month we were out, ordering takeout for the 1st time in our lives.
At home I steam my own steamed buns. I don't want to count all the other details of life that I save. Anyway, my sister is always lecturing me, that is, you earn so much money to keep what for? I have always had a very strong sense of crisis. I've always had a strong sense of crisis, and I've always prepared at least a double portion of my family's food, oil, rice and noodles. Until now, I often dream of being hungry. That's why I never throw away any food that hasn't gone bad in my house. When we first got married, we rented the cheapest house in the center of the city with no windows. We lived there for years. The money we saved from frugality was paid in a lump sum and we bought a house.
We lived frugally, but never took advantage of others. Never hacked a penny of other people's payment for goods, never underpaid a penny of other people's salary. Regardless of our income, in Shijiazhuang our family's monthly living expenses basically did not exceed three or four thousand times.
Later, I bought a second-hand caravan and drove the whole family out to travel, and even if I went out to travel a month, I would spend three or four thousand with the home almost. I've been saving up for years, so now I'm retiring early and traveling around the country without much stress. In our own words, we have saved up the previous twenty years of vacation and now we are taking a vacation for ourselves. We've been very frugal and frugal, but we've had a very full and happy life.
Individual lifestyles are different, I guess, and it's been years since our lifestyles were not understood by the people around us, who thought we were living too hard. We just want to struggle more while we are young and be able to enjoy life earlier as we do now.